Actually, what we really need is a return to the model of Jesus, which will feel completely new. The church in America is not lacking for resources. We have conferences. We have curricula. We have podcasts, platforms, and personality-driven programs that can fill a calendar twelve months of the year. We have more tools for … More We Need a New Approach to Making Disciples
No doubt, this confession comes as a shock to many of my readers, friends, and family members. Unfortunately, it is both true and embarrassing. But there is no going forward without a confession and owning up to the fact that my addiction is limiting my effectiveness and my experience of the love of God, and … More Confession: I am an Addict
Sometimes you don’t need something new to get you started; you need something old. That’s what this post is all about. So here is an inexpensive volume designed as a companion to your daily Bible reading. The early church had patterns of prayer that have been largely forgotten in the modern church. Three times a … More Can I Help You with Your Prayer Life?
Speaker to his audience: “I have a question for the wives. How many of you have heard your husband say, ‘I misunderstood what you said?’” Hundreds of female hands rise quickly out of the crowd and extend to the heavens. Simultaneously, women turn to other women with a mixture of laughter, bitterness, knowing winks and … More Heard a Speaker with Counsel for Husbands and Wives
I was sitting in Panera with a young man, a plumber by trade, married with no children, who is also a new believer in Christ. He is so in love with Jesus and eager to grow that every meeting with him encourages my soul. He is raw, sometimes it sounds out in his language, but … More She was in her 80’s when she approach me . . .
“Prayers for the Day After an Election” NOT “Prayers for the Day after This Election”. That is important. As I sit here meditating on Psalms 6, 36, 66, 96 and 126, I have no clue about which party has won their election. I don’t know if Miss Harris of Mr. Trump is the new president. … More Prayers for the Day After an Election
A Benediction to Sanctify the Night “May the Mighty One Who has done great things,and Whose mercy goes on from generation to generation,be our strength and shield.May all the perils and fears that confounded us todaybe laid at His feet this evening. May His counsel guide us to His side;and may our sleep be sweet … More A Prayer for the Ending of the Day
There are exceptions but . . . Extended Male Adolescence is a Problem Why is it that some men act like they got dropped on their head around their 40th birthday? Good grief, for many of them (most?) of them, they didn’t even start acting semi-manly until they turned 28! Twelve years is all they … More Men Behaving Badly – an Epidemic
Are You Loved in Heaven, A Pest on the Earth and Hated in Hell?(Living for Christ in Christ-less Culture) Here are three simple questions that flow from three texts in the New Testament that can be used as a ruler or measuring stick for our discipleship. They aren’t the only tools of measurement, but they … More Loved in Heaven, a Pest on the Earth, and Hated in Hell
I love to hear the voices of children at play. I don’t know if it because I am from a BIG family or what, but a child’s voice gleefully playing together with other children always brings a smile to my face. Maybe it is part of being the oldest of 7 children. With 26 grandchildren, … More Children at Play?
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