Wednesday is for Discipleshp This was the week 2 email to those who have signed on for the journey to personal revival. Now that I have caught the “BLOG people” up with our Trinity Church family, these reposts will occur on Wednesdays for the remainder of the year. May God be pleased to move our hearts … More Making Your Resolutions Work for You
Wednesday is for Prayer Two Sundays ago I challenged our church family to join me in pursing 5 significant resolutions in the New Year to move toward personal revival. Below is my first email encouragement to those who told me they were taking up the challenge. This evening I realized that I have referred to … More Getting Up When You Knock Yourself Down
Tuesday is for Thinking “The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in … More The Greatest Enemy of Hunger for God
Sunday Musings Periodically, hearts need to be raked over coals to become malleable and soft again. The metaphor doesn’t work except it does. Fire doesn’t make flesh soft, it makes it crisp. It sears it. Meat shrinks and contracts when surrounded by the heat of a coal fire. But when the “hot coal” … More Darkness Created Light
Sunday Musings “Behold, the LORD’S hand is not so short that it cannot save; nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.” —Isaiah 59:1-2 (NASB) … More The Only Resolutions You Need
Thursday is for Preaching I am preaching from Habakkuk this month. (or I was when I first posted this!) It is a sobering book. The last time I preached from the book was in early 2012 when I was doing an overview of each book of the Bible. The time before that was when I … More “Five Resolves for Personal Revival”
Friday is for Heart Songs No one who reads the Bible, no one one knows the history of the church, no one who is a follower of Christ can doubt that the nation needs revival. But what will it take? What might be the start of revival of real abandoned-to-Christ discipleship that is sorely needed … More Revival: Could it Happen Here?
Wednesday is for Prayer Luke 7:36-50 is one of my favorite passages of Scripture and episodes in the life of Christ. Brief recap: A Pharisee is having dinner with Jesus and becomes upset when a woman “from the street, a sinner” begins to weep, dripping tears on Jesus’s feet, bends to wipe his feet with … More 13 Ways to Develop a Passion for the Things of God
Monday is for Discussion “Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, button-down, moralistic … More The Impossibility of Evangelical Witness
Monday Discussion All my life as a Christian, God has been calling me to a deeper dependence upon Him. When I am completely honest, I have to admit that I have not responded well or consistently. At the University of Maryland, I began to see the difference that radical, extraordinary prayer could make. One year … More “I think it’s the chicken!”
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