May 9th, 2012
What I Need To Hear: The Pastor and Prayer
Thanks to the recommendation of Joe Thorn, I’ve been reading through Power Through Prayer by E.M. Bounds. It is having much the same affect on me that it has had on Joe: “The past few days reading this work have wrecked and (hopefully) begun to rebuild me in critical ways.” While it is useful for any Christian, his words have [...]
Apr 12th, 2012
Quiet Enough To Hear
It’s not that I am averse to technology; I too have a cell phone, an office phone, a home phone and an email address, and they are much needed. However, I am aware of longings that run much deeper than what technology can address. I am noticing that the more I fill my life with [...]
Mar 8th, 2012
Living With The End in Mind
The Christian life is an attempt, motivated by God’s grace, to live according to the principles of the age to come. We are motivated by the goal toward which God steers the ship of human history. - John Frame, The Doctrine of God (p. 277)
Feb 29th, 2012
Men Whose Love Is Fiery Enough
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival—men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us [...]
Feb 28th, 2012
Inbox Zero Saved My Life
Actually… it saves my life every day. I won’t pretend I get nearly as many emails as some of you reading… I’m not in the hundreds a day category yet. But I do get a lot. And like most of you, I can easily let them build up until my inbox is so overgrown I [...]
Feb 24th, 2012
Join Me In Praying For Revival
I’ve been following the development of this movement for awhile, and I’m excited that they’re about to launch publicly later today. During the season of Lent, we’ve called Kaleo to seek revival and spiritual renewal in our lives, our families, our church, and our city. We’re studying revival together, we’re fasting, we’re praying… we’re asking [...]
Feb 9th, 2012
Looking Back and Looking Forward
As I’ve been studying Titus 2 the past few weeks, I can’t get away from this quote from John Piper. Love it, love it, love it… The incentive and power to live a Christian life pleasing to God comes from two directions as it were: it comes from looking back with gratitude to the grace [...]
Feb 6th, 2012
Is it weird that I started footnoting my sermons?
I recently changed the way I’m writing sermons. For one, I’ve started writing a manuscript. After preaching with little more than an outline for over a decade, it’s been an interesting shift… but that’s the subject of another post. The shift I’m talking about here goes even further than that. Right now, I’m a student [...]
Feb 3rd, 2012
Is blogging every 164 days acceptable?
Bless me, readers, for I have sinned. It has been 164 days since my last blog entry. I used to blog all the time. Really, it’s true. Back in 2004, I was a regular blogger – I’d post 4 or 5 times a week. Over the years, it’s slowed. And stopped. And started. And stopped [...]
Aug 24th, 2011
Give Us More!
During my times with the Lord in the mornings, I’m slowly reading through When God Comes to Church, a classic work on Revival by Dr. Ray Ortlund. It has been wonderful – I consistently walk away with my soul refreshed and hungry for God to renew me and my church by His grace. This morning, [...]
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