I only recommend movies cautiously. But, last night as a family we had the opportunity to go to a special screening of Bella, a movie (as one reviewer summarized it) “about life, love . . .and the love of life.” It is a drama about two people facing the reality of the life altering consequences …
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.
Spiritual Formation in the midst of Spiritual Warfare
We should have neither morbid fascination nor immobilizing fear when it comes to the spiritual battle we face. It should actually be part of our growth. But in thinking about spiritual warfare and spiritual formation, we need to look at the relationship between two concepts: temptation and spiritual warfare. So, what is the difference between …
Worship
Just a reminder
Soul Food
What do you do to feed your soul? That is, what do you do to insure that the information your encounter from the Bible (Sermons, ABF classes, devotional reading, etc.) not only goes into your mind but transforms your heart? Is your soul/spirit refreshed or weary? Why? Think of a time when your inner man …
Prayer for Outreach
Often when I consider the need to reach out to the world around me and my own lack of active outreach I can rationalize that it is because I don’t have the “gift of evangelist.” I would consider Paul the prototypical evangelist–bold, fearless, eloquent, brilliant and knowledgeable. When it comes to outreach I am all …
Reading in Spiritual Formation
I have the privilege of teaching a class (about once a year) at LBC on Spiritual Formation. Each year when I begin preparing for the class I try to read 4-5 new books. So, with the class about 4 months away here’s is the list of books I am reading. Over the next week weeks …
Quotes about the Church and Culture (Part 3)
How should the church relate to culture (see previous posts 1, 2)? How should we teach our children to engage society (see previous posts 1, 2)? G. K. Chesterton is often quoted as say, “We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that …