Category: Christianity

The Lesson of Diotrephes

I’m fascinated by this passage in John’s third letter. It’s one of those you might fly right by…unless the Spirit gives you a nudge that there’s something there for you. … Read more »

Thoughtful

Reading from James, chapter 3 tonight. Interesting thoughts… Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness…. Read more »

Here is my latest installment from Shane and Shane’s Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (Live) album. This one hits particularly hard when one considers one’s own spiritual state. “My heart,… Read more »

Music Break

I’m just going to come right out and “strenuously” recommend Shane and Shane’s album, Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (Live). It’s much like their Psalms Live album — not a… Read more »

The Emotions of Belief

I don’t normally go to the emotions as any kind of proof. I mean, if the foundation upon which you build your faith is true, it doesn’t matter how it… Read more »

Comfort Through the Pain

Many people won’t get it. Maybe they think God owes them for how really, really good they’ve been. But they haven’t. Job got it. He said, “Though he slay me;… Read more »

Two Paths, Two Lives

It’s interesting how thoughts come up on a person. This is especially the case when I’m reading the Bible, I’ll hit a verse I’ve read dozens of times (or more)… Read more »

All of It

Doctor Martyn Lloyd Jones was an extraordinary preacher…but I’ve always found him hard to listen to. Maybe it was his voice. Still, if you just read his sermons (even if… Read more »

Gently and Respectfully

Ponderings that came out of the morning: People come to Christ but are sometimes sidetracked shortly thereafter in their inexperience. “I am now a Christian, so I have to seek… Read more »

How It’s Done

I’ve probably mentioned before that I have the ESV Reader’s Bible — a 6-volume set of high quality (paper and printing) that leaves out all chapter and verse numbers, as… Read more »