A leftover thought from our Thursday night Men’s Bible study:You find out how much you love money when you have less of it today than you had six months ago. …
Yesterday I shared a short poem by the Canadian poet Ethelwyn Wetherald called “My Orders.” I happened to find that poem in a blog entry by Tullian Tchividjian. In doing further research I found another poem by Ethelwyn Wetherald called “Prodigal Yet.” It is shattering in its power. If you do not deeply understand this, then…
Marilyn Miller gave me a copy of this cartoon when we were at Mount Hermon. I think it’s the wave of the future. Or better yet, the future has already arrived.
Until this week I had never heard of Canadian poet Anges Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857-1940). Here is a short poem she wrote called “My Orders.” It’s a good word for Christians who find themselves in a difficult situation with no quick end in sight. Her words apply equally to someone trapped in a bad relationship or someone who feels l…
We have just added a new sermon called Four Cracked Pots, based on the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, four very flawed, very human, very fallible heroes from the book of Judges who made many mistakes (some of them disastrous) and yet they are mentioned in Hebrews 11:32 as men who lived by faith.It’s the sort of sermon that bri…
I confess to not having given any thought as to the eternal destination of Allen Iverson, a premier professional basketball player with the Detroit Pistons, and I would not have thought about it at all if Mr. Iverson had not raised the topic himself. During a press conference in connection with the NBA All-Star Weekend, Allen Iverson brought up the…
This is the best book I’ve read in quite a while. I finished it during our trip to Mount Hermon, in fact I stayed up late on Friday night to get to the end. It touches on so many issues that it’s hard to list them all. At its heart the book is about three people—a rich white couple who meet and befriend a homeless black man who gr…
I am writing this note late on Sunday night from our room at Mount Hermon Conference Center in California. Been so busy that blogging has been put to the side. We’ve had a wonderful time with the 400+ who attended the All-Comers’ Conference. I have spoken four time so far with my final message coming up tomorrow morning. We have been hu…
By the time you read this, we will be on our way to Mount Hermon Conference in California. To get there we drive to Columbus (about 60 miles south of Tupelo), fly to Atlanta, fly to San Jose where friends will pick us up and drive us to the conference center which is in the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz. Someone said, “Enjoy the o…
A number of writers have been drawing comparisons between Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin since both were born 200 years ago today. Here is my favorite so far, taken from the comments section of the Mere Comments weblog (scroll down to the 3rd comment after the article):Two men whose lives had great impact on the lives of millions, even billions…