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If You Are Old, Don’t Hold Back
I write this to encourage old people to come boldly to Christ. Come and offer him what remains of your life. Come with grateful confidence that he will receive you and gladly help you use the rest of...
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First Things First: Making the Most of Your Morning
“Do first things first” is the takeaway from Laura Vanderkam’s new eBook What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast. Morning is “prime time for self-improvement,” USA Today reports in...
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Fight the Poverty of Attention
Oh, that my people would listen to me. (Psalm 81:13) “Attention is focused mental engagement on a particular item of information.”1 I’ll bet you’re finding that difficult to do, aren’t you — paying...
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What's Greater Than Winning the Gold
Usain Bolt, yes, we are impressed. Gold medals in the men’s 100- and 200-meter sprints — at back-to-back Olympics. Like no one’s done before. You’ve made the case as well as any in this generation that...
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Design Contest Update
A week ago we announced a new graphic design contest, and you can find the details here. Since that announcement submissions have been rolling in at a steady pace and to date we have 70 entries. The...
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Come, Take a Look at This!
We impoverish ourselves by not lingering more. Whipping from one thing to the next does not make for a rich, memorable life. Understanding and wonder and worship don’t typically result from doing or...
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Why Mars Should Boggle the Mind
Jeremiah 32:40–41: "I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. I...
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Four Things We Can Learn from Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards wasn't always "Jonathan Edwards," Sean Lucas reminds us. In the closing appendix of his book, God's Grand Design, Lucas explains that in many ways Edwards was "a man just like us."...
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An Olympic Lesson in God's Omnipotence
Sad to see the Olympics end? Every other year, whether Winter Games or Summer, it's thrilling when the Olympics arrive and captivate the world's collective attention for two full weeks. But most of us...
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This Week's Sermon: "All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God, Continue in It"
The theological and political polarities aside, Christians must be conservative. At least that is Paul's exhortation in 2 Timothy 3:14: "Continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed."...
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The Gospel of Noncontradiction
What if being a grace junkie didn't mean caring very little about Christian holiness and obedience? What if we could let grace be grace — wild and free — and at the same time let ourselves be captured...
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Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God (Free eBook)
In one sense the Olympics are a global celebration of perfect bodies. But we know the Olympics do not represent real life. In the real world most bodies don’t look and work like that. Disabilities are...
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Winning Like a Christian Hedonist
Pride is an ugly thing whenever it shows itself. It tinges the cuteness of the smallest toddler declaring their independence and self-centeredness with screams too young for words. It stains the honor...
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Your Executioner May Laugh You to Scorn for Quoting Psalm 91
As a church we are memorizing Psalm 91 again. It's part of our Fighter Verse program. Again we face the seeming unreality of these promises. Ordinary readers start to stumble and need help. At least I...
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Praying for Your Straying Soul
Do you pray for your straying soul? I do. Daily. The soul is always in motion. If you think yours is motionless, you are probably floating downstream. Daily the soul is lured to other treasures, other...
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Art Contest Voting Begins
We received 153 designs in the Act the Miracle art contest. They came in from all over the world and in all forms and shapes and colors. We initially considered whittling the entries down to the top 10...
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Beware of Elevated Vagueness
The term “elevated vagueness” caught my eye. It was in a tweet by Fred Sanders linking to his article about F. W. Robertson, a 19th century British preacher. Even before I read the article I could...
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Remain in the God-Breathed Book
Is there any key to God's merciful blessings on a particular local church? Pastors transition. Seasons of ministry change. Congregations are in flux. New initiatives come and go. But there is at least...
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The Shelf Life on Preaching the Gospel to Yourself
The clock is ticking. If you’re faithfully “preaching the gospel” to your own soul, day in and day out, but distancing yourself from regular Bible intake, your freshness is fading. There’s an...
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Oh, to Know Jesus!
I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord (Philippians 3:8). One thing is for sure: Christianity is not for stoics. The Bible is the most wild,...
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