Lord, help me to glorify you. I am poor;help me to glorify you by contentment. I am sick;help me to give you honor by patience. I have talents;help me to exalt you by spending them for you. I have a heart to feel, Lord;let that heart feel no love but yours,and glow with no flame …
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.
God is Merciful (part 2)
Part 1 Mercy defined Mercy never runs out A. W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy Mercy is an attribute of God, an infinite and inexhaustible energy within the divine nature which disposes God to be actively compassionate. Mercy never began to be, but from eternity was; so it will never cease to be. It will never …
Love has come
Love Has Come by Mark SchultzAlbum: Come Alive Well I know this life is filled with sorrowAnd there are days when the pain just lasts and lastsBut I know there will come a dayWhen all our tears are washed away with a break in the cloudsHis glory coming down and in that moment Every knee …
Lessons from a stay in the hospital
I’m recovering from an 8 day stay in the hospital.  My appendix, which was perforated (they don’t burst, but burst sounds better), was removed and the infection hopefully contained. I’ll spare you the time-line and the details–for fear of exaggeration–but do want to share observations and lessons.  I probably should wait for a time of more clarity and …
God is Merciful (part 1)
All of God’s attributes work together and none of them is greater than any of the others–since God is infinity all that He is He is infinity. But one of God’s attributes that I appreciate in a very personal way is mercy (we’ll look at grace and sovereignty later). As posted by Justin Taylor, From …
Praying for our church
The prayer of John Piper, as he takes a leave of absence from his church for a time of refocus and refreshment. Great list to pray–perhaps you might want to print it out and add it to your prayer list. hundreds of people coming to Christ, old animosities being removed, marriages being reconciled and renewed, wayward …
Psalm 25
A friend shared Psalm 25 in our staff devotions asking us to notice what David reveals about our attitudes toward God and our asking of God. As I was looking at the Psalm I notice that, like most Psalms, one of the key questions we also need to ask is, what are the attributes of …