Habakkuk Remix
Recently for my Growth Group I down-sized and synopsized Habakkuk. His book is found in the last section of the Old Testament called the Minor Prophets. They are called “minor” because of their comparative brevity not because of their unimportance....
read moreThe Bible in Roughly 300 Words
Trying to capture the grand story-line of the Bible in about 300 words is a tall task but worth the try. Here is the attempt by the managing editor of the Gospel Project, Trevin Wax: In the beginning, the all-powerful,...
read moreMoney Myth-Buster
Sometimes, in a family, hidden assumptions are at work underneath self-oriented feelings of frustration and resentment. Within the evangelical family, one of the unspoken assumptions that deserves exposure and correction is the following money-related myth: If I just trust God,...
read moreBack To The Bible
Last Sunday we brought in the New Year by calling ourselves back to the Bible for 2012. This is relevant for every one of us, whether we’re men or women, adults or children, leaders or followers, sick or healthy, more...
read moreTwice Born: Ultimately a Mystery
In 1976 the former hatchet man in the Nixon Whitehouse, Charles Colson, wrote a best selling book entitled ‘Born Again,’ where he chronicled his own experience of conversion to Christianity. By his own confession, prior to being born again, Colson...
read moreArchitectural Christianity
Lately I bumped into these rhetorical words by the great church father, Augustine of Hippo (354-430 B.C.): Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds?Lay first the foundation of humility. This is...
read moreThy Kingdom Come
Last Sunday I tried an experiment that isn’t greatly embedded in our Baptist expression of the Christian faith, but I decided to write out the prayer I would pray during our morning corporate worship so that I could invite arranged,...
read moreTears for Caledon
Moses interceded for the covenant community with such self-identification with them that he could pray, “But now, please, forgive their sin – but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written” (Exodus 32:32). Paul could say,...
read moreLet’s Unite in Prayer for the People of Haiti
In light of the devastating earthquake which struck Haiti January 12, pray for the people of Haiti – those recovering from their injuries, those who may be trapped in the ruins, and those who are eagerly awaiting news of their...
read moreNew Year’s Resolution?
Some of us aren’t all too enamored with New Year’s resolutions, but there’s one that’s always worthy of promotion. Is it time for you to begin reading right through the Bible again? There is any number of excellent Bible reading...
read moreThe God of Christmas: Timely and Timeless
On Christmas, we celebrate something quite wonderful: God entering our time and space. The eternal becomes temporal; the infinite becomes finite; the Word that created all things becomes flesh. Oh, the mystery of it all! The one who knows all...
read moreBorn a King
Isaiah prophecied of old, a child to rule in peace. And He would reign on David’s throne with government increase. (Isa, 9:6,7) CHORUS: BORN A KING, BORN A KING! JESUS IS HIS NAME. AND HE MUST REIGN FOREVERMORE, THE PROPHET...
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