An excerpt from C. S. Lewis to begin the Lenten season… Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. But man’s love for God, from the very nature of the case, must always be very largely, and must often be entirely, a Need-love. This is obvious […]
This week’s appointed prayer from ‘The Divine Hours‘ hits home: Most loving Father, whose will it is for us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care on you who cares for us: Preserve me from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, that no […]
For the past (almost) 6 years, I’ve had a membership at a website called christianaudio.com. It’s an audiobook website focusing on titles centered around the Christian faith. The membership is $14.95/month, for which you get 4 “credits” in your account. The credits can then be spent on books as you like. (You can also purchase […]
Some uncomfortable truth from Jared C. Wilson: Truly, I think one reason we aren’t captivated by Christ’s glory is because we have a diminished capacity to be captivated by anything big. We are preoccupied with small things. And, in fact, we somehow have an inverted sense of measurement in that big things seem to us […]
There’s a thought that’s been in the back of my mind for a while now. It’s been prompted by what I’ve been seeing culturally over the past several years, but has especially ramped up in the past 2-3 years… Something tells me there’s a judgment coming for the church. And by the church, I mean […]
I almost never listen to the radio. At home I don’t have a good enough antenna on the stereo to bring in much, and in the car I almost always have the iPod Classic, or an audio book, or a podcast playing. So I don’t even know what the current FM stations are, or where […]
I suspect it’s true for most people that when it comes to the arts (music, books, etc.), if we’ve met an artist, author, etc., we tend to be much more interested in, vested in, and appreciative of that person and their gifts/words. Likewise, the more closely we follow that artist/author, the more we tend to […]
You shall not go out with haste…for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. (Isaiah 52:12) Security from Yesterday. “…God requires an account of what is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the […]
This year I’m going deeper for Christmas. Or, more accurately, I spent Christmas money on resources to go deeper into studying scripture. I’ve had the NIV Study Bible for several years, and it really is a great resource. Its footnotes, along with its cross-references between verses, are extremely useful in tying scripture together into a […]
“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord. “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you”. (Zechariah 2:10-11) […]