For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 Tim 1:7 I am not a big fan of professional football, but I am a fan of Tim Tebow. I am not the only one. The whole country seems to be caught up in what is happening around this football player. What is happening through this young man is nothing short of a miracle. I use that word intentionally. I...
In every age the Church has to contend for the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The enemy is subtle and sly. He sometimes launches a frontal attack in the form of persecution. At other times, he creeps behind the lines to lay ambushes. In the first his goal is intimidation. In the second his objective is confusion. I suspect that the first strategy is not the preferred tactic. All it does is remove the...
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Phil 2:3-4 It was the last major test of my son’s basic training in the Marine Corps. He had to complete grueling twelve mile trek with an eighty pound bag on his back. It began early in the...
I am a member of the far Christian right, not because I moved to the right but because my dear country has moved so far to the left. I have not moved. Someone who has not lived in the United States for the last twenty-five years, who has lived in a post-Christian Europe, who resides in a socialistic state, who gets her news about America from CNN, who attends churches that are generally non-biblical, can never understand the depth of...
I have a friend who lives in Europe, who is a sharp critic of what he has labeled as the “Christian far right.” I confess, I am a part of that tribe, not because I have moved to the right, but because my country has moved radically to the left. It seems that his main criticism of me and my clan is that we, in his words, think we “have been given some sort of God ordained right, to monopolize...
To live above with saints we love, ah, that will be glory! But, to live below with saints we know, ah, that’s another story! If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Phil 2:1-2 In the world, relationships are...
Father make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. Jim Elliot “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me...
The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!” Matt 8:27 This past week was one of the most trying weeks I have experienced in my life. My son is an officer in the Marines and is stationed at one of the hottest places in Afghanistan; Helmand Province. We knew he would be in danger, but the reality of just how dangerous was brought home in the terrible news that...
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace…. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheap jack’s wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices…. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without...
Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.” Isa 55:5 This new experiment in doing church is rooted, I am confident, as the desire, even the passion, to see the Church grow. What has not been grasped however, is that in the modern world, the means that are...
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