Have you ever said to yourself, I read too much? Not me. I’m usually saying, I wish I had more time (and energy) to do more reading. But when you do take time to read–what should you read? I want to make you aware of a resource I used a number of years ago (actually …
Category: Musings
Question of the day
Does our church reflect the culture or does it shape the culture? If we want to shape the culture, we must: Keep the main thing the man thing. What is the main thing–keeping God the focus by passionately teaching His Word in such a way that individuals feel/are motivated to change and compelled to reach …
Profiting from the Prophets: Daniel–Part 2
Miscellaneous thoughts on the biographical section of Daniel. Daniel 2:4b through the end of chapter 7 are written in 3rd person by Daniel in Aramaic. These chapters contain the “story” of Daniel and his three friends. Within these stories are messages of judgment (related to Gentile kings) wrapped in lesson of conviction, commitment, courage, confidence …
J. I. Packer on the ESV Study Bible
In a past post I mentioned the yet to be released ESV Study Bible, due out on October 15, 2008. It has quickly become the most anticipated Study Bible I can remember. One of the unique elements of this Study Bible will be, that everyone who purchases a copy will have online access to the …
Learning to Pray Big
A lesson from a missionary friend. ASKIM TASOL Papua New Guinea has a cultural difference that is sometimes hard to get used to. It is the “ASKIM“. The askim is when a national will come to us and ask for a favor or request usually far exceeding what we would expect in our home culture. …
Unconquerable Imperfections
Have you ever had the feeling that you will never overcome a persistent weakness? Perhaps a propensity to: Anger Bitterness Impatience or negativity? You pray, you try–and still you seem to lose the battle. Could it be possible that God does not want us to have victory over all our persistent weakness? That almost sound …
Truth through Story
I have spent much of the last two years studying and teaching through the wonderful book of Romans (that material will be posted on this site soon). This requires looking at doctrine, wrestle with concepts. These truths are very important and necessary for a firm foundation. But not all truth was given through or in …