Monday is for Discussion “Everybody knows, that with the right personality, the right music, the right location, and the right schedule you can grow a church without anybody really knowing what doctrinal commitments sustain it, if any.” Which is why John Piper writes, “. . . the older I get, the less impressed I am … More Truth-Based Worship
Wednesday is for Exalting Christ I have preached this truth for almost 30 years. Of course there are others, like John Piper who says it better than I can. Jesus is glorious. Jesus is good. Jesus is sovereign. Jesus can always be trusted. Jesus is the treasure in the field. Nothing is more valuable than … More God is Most Glorified When I Am Most Satisfied in Him
Thursday is for Worship (And so is every other day of the week) A former student recently emailed me to ask for help in the area of worship. He is faithfully serving a small church in the mid-west and I hope they know what a gem they have as a leader/preacher/thinker. Bottom line, he has … More “Worship at Our Small Church is a Challenge”
Weekend Links Looking forward to being back in the pulpit for the first time in four weeks. And I’m looking forward to having my wife back after a long visit to visit and care for her mother in West Virginia. Enjoy your weekend. Doctrine What is the Gospel and How Do We Ensure We Tell … More Speaking of Homosexuality; Heaven; Suffering Well; Tim Keller; Dennis Prager; Richard Dawkins
Friday is for Heart Songs Yesterday, I used the first two lines from this great hymn as the title to Thursday’s post. I have not been able to get the tune or the beauty of its theology out of my head ever since. If I’m not singing it, I’m whistling it but I am always … More Why Should We Gain from His Reward? Why Indeed?
Weekend Links Unpacking still from the move. Today it will be hanging pictures and making the house look more like a home. Hopefully we will also get to meet some more of our neighbors today as well. Enjoy your weekend. As always, the weekend links are exercises for your mind. A link here does not … More Tolkein; Al Gore; Global Warming; Dr. King; Salvation; and the undermining of Doctrine in the PCUSA
Weekend Links New look to the BLOG and to the weekend links. The hope is that this will make it faster for my readers to find the links that most interest them. Enjoy. Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead: A Surgeon-Scientist Examines the Evidence (by Dr. Thomas A. Miller, MD.—Book Review from Apologetics 315) Battling … More Did Jesus Rise? The Bully Culture of Liberal Politics; Incredible Sculptures; Racism; Government Coverups;
Friday is for Heart Songs My son is more than an aspiring poet; he is a published, top 100 on Amazon.com list of books on poetry (four times) poet. He’s good. I am biased, but that doesn’t mean I’m not right. I love this particular poem so much that I recorded it at the end … More “The Church is a Whore; But She’s My Mother” (often attributed to Augustine)
Sunday Afternoon Musings What do you do when the mere reading of the Scripture reduces you to tears? What do you do when your heart is longing for some . . . something your lips can’t describe and our mind can’t explain but your spirit knows . . . something that is needed, something it … More Tippy Toe Longing for the Wonder of God
Posted this first in 2014 but I see no reason to change my hope for 2017. It’s over a 100 years old, probably over 150 years old. Its known as an old “negro-spiritual.” Its resonance is certainly rooted in pain. Physical pain? Maybe. Longing for rescue from the oppression of slavery? Probably. A grieving heart … More Give Me Jesus in the New Year (Revised for 2017)
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