O God, to the farthest corners of the planet people will stand in awe, startled and stunned by your signs and wonders. Sunrise brilliance and sunset beauty both take turns singing their songs of joy to you. (Ps. 65:8) I spent last weekend serving on a prison ministry team that presented concepts from John and Stasi Eldredge’s […]
Month: January 2020
God Volunteers
I start with this gem from A.W. Tozer: “God has a voluntary relation to everything he has made, but he has no necessary relation to anything outside of himself…to God alone nothing is necessary….Any motion in His direction is elevation for the creature; away from Him, descent.” –from Knowledge of the Holy I love this […]
Reset to Clean
I love Mondays. Yes, I really do. I also love a new year for the same reason I love Mondays. It’s a new start. There’s been a period of relative rest and reflection, and then—a reset, a fresh start with a new set of goals and priorities and activities. It’s kind of like the way […]
Commendation
Recently as I was finishing my reading of the book of Romans, I was struck by the honor, respect and tenderness in Paul’s tone, and found some useful application to our respective ministries today. Paul’s letter to the Romans remains one of the finest pieces of literature ever penned in any genre. It is loaded […]