June 2008
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Even Deeper
Ok, so I keep reading in the Christian devotional book mentioned in my earlier post, and, to my delight, Steven Grose has more to say about our indebtedness to the lost.
He makes the distinction between the “Greeks” and “barbarians” to whom Paul feels indebted to share the gospel. He observes that the term “Greek” had lost its racial significance by this...
Proverbs 31 2K1 →
This link is a remarkable twist on the egalitarian and feminist interpretations of Proverbs 31. This feels like the right way to reconcile this passage with the rest of the Bible.
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Deep in Debt
I recently read a small article out of a Christian “Chicken Soup for the Soul” kind of devotional. This kind of book is usually a mixed bag…take the good, leave the rest. Today, I came across one entitled “A Debtor,” by Steven Grose, from New South Wales and I can’t shake it.
My first instinct is to reject the concept of “debt” to God because it...
True Worship
I just had a conversation with my oldest daughter, Meredith, that started with her question, “if God wants us to worship him, why did Jesus come to serve us, not for us to serve him?” Any one want to take that one on? :)
Meredith is a very perceptive and soulful little girl. Her waters run very deep, and I love it. Anyway, we looked for some scriptures that might help. First, we...
“I don’t know what a facebook is, but I think it’s magic.”
– me
Savoring God
My eating is one of the areas that God has yet to transform. I love junk food and eat it every chance I get. God is convicting me with the analogy of how eating junk food is a picture of being satisfied with anything other than him.
For example, I don’t have the experience of actually “savoring” a cheeseburger and fries…it is more like an addict feeding a craving. I...
I should be dead already. →
This is getting insidious. Feels a lot like religious indoctrination to me.
Hope for broken hearts.
I just watched videos from Hope Center Honduras, where a college buddy runs an orphanage for 16 or so little kids with his wife and 2 little daughters. I’m sitting here weeping at the things the things that are hitting me in waves:
The first thing I noticed was his beautiful wife, rather than the little children and the work they are doing.
These are orphans, with no other family than...
“You and I bear the burden of responsibility to put an understandable gospel on...”
– John Piper (on the dual role of the Holy Spirit and humans in the work of evangelism)