Created by Michael Davenport
Author: Steve
I love to study the Bible and I love to engage with others in learning. I had been privileged to do this on a regular basis through church ministry and through part-time teaching at a local Bible colleges.
Helping individuals learn to feed themselves through their own study of God’s Word is joy-giving to me. Influencing groups to do life and church from a biblically grounded, theologically faithful perspective is my passion.
Everyday trials, we all need them
As I continue preparing for the next section of our study in James chapter 1, this song is so appropriate. LAURA STORY – “BLESSINGS” We pray for blessings We pray for peace Comfort for family, protection while we sleep We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering …
Playlist for times of trouble
I’m preaching a couple of messages from the beginning of James. (You can listen to the first here.) Here are a few songs for those times when you are experience difficulties and need to keep trusting God.
No Works
To those who believe in Christ there are no works so bad as to accuse and condemn us, but again, there are no works so good that they could save and defend us. –Martin Luther, ‘Judgment on Monastic Vows,’ in Luther’s Works, 44:301 Repost from Dane Ortlund
Self promoting or promoted by God
Jonathan Edwards (in Charity And Its Fruits): If you are selfish, and make yourself and your own private interests your idol, God will leave you to yourself, and let you promote your own interests as well as you can. But if you do not selfishly seek your own, but do seek the things that are …
Questions to Identifying your Idols
This is a repost, first seen on Resurgence, but are from the a book Seeing With New Eyes by David Powlison. How to identify your idols 1. What do I worry about most? 2. What, if I failed or lost it, would cause me to feel that I did not even want to live? 3. …
Prayer: God delights in our Asking
This is a continuation in an occasional series seeking to learn from the prayers of others. Prayer is work. God wants to be bothered by our asking!