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Why We Need Jesus
According to Michael Horton: “Reason and morality cannot show us a good and gracious God. For that, we need the Incarnation.” *** A passenger on a recent plane trip happily divulged his spiritual views. Raised in a conservative religious home, he proudly dismissed traditional Christianity, with its radical claims about Jesus of Nazareth, because it…
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The Secret Love Life of the Passionate Pastor
In this wonderfully encouraging and clarifying article Michael Milton describes the perils and joys of pastoral ministry. Most succinctly Mike explores the three loves above all others that the true Christ-like pastor must have: Love for God Love for God’s Word Love for God’s People Amazingly, no mention is made about the 3 B’s most…
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Our Part in Practicing the Presence of God
Here is a thought worthy to ponder, and a discipline worthy to practice, excerpted from Dallas Willard‘s The Great Omission: Our part in practicing the presence of God is to direct and redirect our minds constantly to him. In the early times of our practicing, we may well be challenged by our burdensome habits of…
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A Key to Vibrant Prayer
We are not desperate to pray because we are self-deceived. We are blind to our depravity. We don’t see ourselves as we really are. Do you want to learn to pray more? Learn of your sin. Ask God to show it to you, to give you a glimpse of your need. Ask him to show…
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The Prayers of Paul
In one sense, prayer is the simplest thing in the world. People have been talking to God from the beginning, without instruction and without method. We have praised Him, cursed Him, begged Him, and bargained with Him. We tell Him to send the rains, heal the sick, give us jobs, prove He exists, and explain…
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Living By Grace
What an awesome insight from Brennan Manning: “To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.”
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Idolotry pt 2 – C.J. Mahaney
As a follow up to some recent posts, one in particular, Disinfecting Ourselves of Spiritual Malware, I thought this video by C.J. Mahaney would be helpful and challenging. This is part 2 of 2.
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Idolotry pt 1 – C.J. Mahaney
As a follow up to some recent posts, one in particular, Disinfecting Ourselves of Spiritual Malware, I thought this video by C.J. Mahaney would be helpful and challenging. This is part 1 of 2.
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Bible Reading Plan for Slackers & Shirkers
Let me suggest a different kind of Bible reading plan, one that writer Margie Haack, of Ransom Fellowship, calls “The Bible Reading Plan for Slackers & Shirkers“. She explains: The big difference between this plan and any other I had tried was that it was not tied to any particular date. On any day of…
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Revised Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards
As a young man – a teenager, really – Jonathan Edwards set down on paper a series of thoughts and practices to help cultivate growth in grace. (See 2 Peter 3.18) Edwards then re-read this list at least once a week to keep his mind focused and renewed. The result: A man of humble godliness,…
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A New Year’s Reflection
New Year’s is an opportunity for renewal. It is a time when even the calendar reminds us that God is making all things new; that the old passes away and the new is brought forth. It is a time of renewal. If we think about it and act upon it, New Year’s Eve & New…
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A New Year’s Prayer
Here is a New Year’s prayer from Jim Eliot I don’t think I could ever express any better: I pray that the Lord might crown this year with His goodness and in the coming one give you a hallowed dare-devil spirit in lifting the biting sword of Truth, consuming you with a passion that is…
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How Faith Speaks
“We can put it this way: the man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself and no longer looking to himself. He no longer looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He does not even look at what he hopes to…
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Deeper Into the Gospel
Reflecting on Colossians 1.6, Tullian Tchividjian, in his book Jesus + Nothing = Everything, offers this poignant perspective about the present practicality of the gospel: The gospel represents both the nature of Christian growth and the basis for it. Whatever progress we make in our Christian lives – whatever going onward, whatever pressing forward –…
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Loving Not Wisely But Too Well
Shakespeare’s Othello bellows: “I have loved not wisely but too well.” What he means is that his passions consumed him, and now he had destroyed what he loved. If you know the story, you will remember he had strangled his wife out of the mistaken fear that she had not been faithful to him. Similarly,…
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