Dec 13th, 2012
What Does Spiritual Growth Look Like Practically?
It’s easy to get caught in the trap of thinking and speaking of spiritual growth in broad generalities. “I want to grow closer to God. I want to be more obedient. I want to get better at prayer.” etc. But what if we began to think more specifically. Far from just creating a list of [...]
Nov 8th, 2012
Church Growth, John Calvin Style
Thanks to the dean of my seminary, I came across this quote from John Calvin and thought it was too good not to pass along. In a day when theologically reformed churches can be seen as ambivilant towards seeing conversion growth in our churches, this serves as a helpful reminder for us all: Therefore, in [...]
Nov 2nd, 2012
Relearning the Rhythms of Prayer
Recently, prayer’s been more difficult than it has been in quite awhile. Motivation, connection, and zeal seemed to be growing increasingly distant… and this morning I realized why. My rhythm was gone. I have let the daily, weekly, and monthly rhythms of grace that had once sustained my soul so well begin to drift. It’s [...]
Sep 11th, 2012
Something Worth Blogging About!
Shannon and I have wanted to adopt since we first got married. In fact, we were at the end of the approval process with our adoption agency right before we found out Shannon was pregnant with our first child, Mirabelle. Naturally, we pulled out of the adoption process temporarily and have since welcomed two children [...]
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 [...]
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