Going Deeper… The Change-Up 31 Dec 201431 Dec 2014 One thing I have been learning this year is how much God likes to change things up. Have you noticed that? He loves to reverse things, turn things upside down,…
God's Love… Thirty Years Later 11 Dec 2014 Perhaps the most formative event in my life happened on Christmas morning of 1984. I was sick in bed. I was awakened by my sister and brother yelling and stamping…
Books… Seeking After Christ, Part 1 9 Dec 20149 Dec 2014 Tuesdays with Edwards! Two hundred seventy four years ago this month, Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon on the wise men following the star to find Jesus in Bethlehem. Being in…
Love… Got Awe? 21 Nov 201421 Nov 2014 Ok, we have talked about what fear of the Lord means, why it is important, and what it leads to, but what does fear of the Lord have to do…
Grace… Grace Makes Us Humble AND Confident? Yup! 19 Oct 201419 Oct 2014 Last week I began a series of posts asking the question "What does love look like?" John 1:14 says that Jesus came from the Father full of grace and truth.…
Spiritual Formation Lessons from Coffee 24 Sep 201424 Sep 2014 My first coffee was a Starbucks grande white chocolate mocha. I was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary at the time. One of my co-workers (yes, I was working at…
Holiness… Love’s Love: What This All Means 26 Mar 2014 Why we love a person has a profound effect on how our relationship will progress over time. If the reason the reason you love your spouse is based on their…
Holiness… Love’s Love: What We Learn from Job 24 Mar 201424 Mar 2014 If you were going to explain love to somebody what would you say? Where would you start? Love is very hard to explain. When I first told Mandi that I…
God's Love… Home Again 18 Mar 20147 Aug 2014 One of the things I love to be teaching my girls is that I love them because God made them and He gave them to me. And because of that,…
Going Deeper… Why isn’t God answering my prayers to rescue me from this suffering? 12 Mar 20147 Aug 2014 This is the fourth post in this week's series of posts where I have been addressing some of the questions that are often represented by the question: "Why is this…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 