Quid Pro Quo
What is in it for me? Many of our attempts to attract people to the Lord are certainly well-intentioned, but possibly do set up a faulty understanding of the Christian life. “If you give your life to Jesus........” and you…
What is in it for me? Many of our attempts to attract people to the Lord are certainly well-intentioned, but possibly do set up a faulty understanding of the Christian life. “If you give your life to Jesus........” and you…
Most of us are clueless. I know I am. We live our lives, for the most part, oblivious to the real world we live in. By “real world,” I don’t mean the material world encountered by our five senses. I…
All of life these days is a challenge. But here is a new one that came to me in the early hours of this morning after a spectacular first Sunday back together for Sunday services. Well, back together in quotations,…
Over the last few weeks of Covid-19 in-home isolation I have been in various conversations with pastors in our region about the corporate gathering of their people...and I am puzzled and surprised by the lack of urgency in most of…
God always begins with the end in mind. A friend of mine used to say that all the time and how comforting that is for all of us when it comes to trusting Him with the final outcome of our…
I have an Ethiopian pastor friend who talks to me about a “made-in-America” brand of Christianity and how little it resembles the lives of Christians in the rest of the world. I heard a famous young celebrity preacher make two…
Maybe it’s the general impact of what we are all experiencing right now... Maybe it’s the particular frame of mind that I’m in, as we (as a church) wrestle with the pastoral implications of isolation... Maybe it’s the way all…
Like a discouraged Elijah, retreating from our troubles and hiding in a cave on the mountain, we have an expectation that God will meet with us and answer us in the whirlwind, the earthquake or with fire from heaven. Something…
I wasn’t planning on writing a blog today. Too much to do. But the first chapter in my daily reading plan was 1 Samuel 3... and here I am. I can’t not write a blog. Young Samuel is serving as…