Taking a closer look at great people and themes of Scripture
I have a lot of head-knowledge about God. I’ve read His Word all my life. Once-upon-a-lifetime before marriage and family I even earned a Bachelor in Biblical Studies; I learned some Greek, picked my way through the ins and outs of Biblical exegesis, worked my way through most of the books in the Bible with […]
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? These words jumped from their immediate context (I Cor.6:19) to arrest my thoughts one day not too long ago and their significance keeps echoing in my heart… Have I fathomed this? The eternal, […]
Two men go up to the temple to pray. One returns home a new man, justified. The other says a deluded prayer and returns home unchanged. (Luke 18:9ff) What made the difference? Two sons of a loving father take different paths. One wanders. The other stays home. When the wanderer comes home he is welcomed […]
It’s not what we had hoped, not what we imagined, not what we had wished for, nevertheless, it is where we’re at… Have you been there? John the Baptist was. He’d been faithful, truthful, and God-honoring. And there he sat in a Roman prison awaiting the verdict… Naomi was. She’d left her home-country with […]
I was quite taken with a short video clip by John Piper this week. The intro reads: “It is one of the saddest effects of the fall that over time the greatest wonders in the world become routine. The first day among the Alps we are speechless with wonder. By the end of the week, […]