The past couple of weeks on this blog, Nathan (one of the regular writers here) shared some of the things that God showed him through a recent brain surgery. You can read those posts here and here. Several months ago, I had my own health bout that ended with a several day stay in the…
One of the great gifts that God has given His church is the gift of congregational singing. I often come to our worship gathering discouraged – discouraged with my failures, my anxieties, and my weakness. What a gift the gathered church is to a discouraged soul! Every week we come in from our different lives…
Just about every sermon about money I’ve heard in church has been about how much and how often and in what way we are supposed to tithe. The messages and texts are often the same: “Bring the full tithe in!” (Malachi 3:10); “Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing!” (Matthew…
Perfect Peace for Anxious Souls “You look troubled. Your faces look troubled. I love you. I don’t like it when you look that way. I don’t want to leave you that way.” Noah Oldham on the Pastor’s Health This is something I’ve discovered in the last 3 years or so. I serve my church best…
10 Reasons We Hide our Sin “It happens. Even as believers, we tend to keep our sin to ourselves.” In describing the reasons why we hide sin, Dr. Lawless compels us to shed light on them through confession. What if My Husband Looks at Porn? “I remember staring, confused, at the computer screen. What exactly…
A friend of mine recently called with a confession. Though married, he had gratified himself after fixating on a tantalizing visual image he came across while at work. He was broken. He was frustrated. And he was confused about where he was to go from here. Have you ever been there? Have you ever wrestled…
Is Temptation Sinful? How (Not) to Discover Spiritual Gifts Calvin on Preaching 7 Ways to Engage Little Minds with Big Truth
Have you ever sat behind that person at the movie theater? Maybe they are tall and block a clear view of the screen. Or perhaps they cannot resist the urge to comment on the movie or reminisce about in what other movies this or that actress has been. But one way or another, they obstruct your…
Some friends and I were recently out for dinner and were talking about how to guard ourselves from sexual immorality. We were mourning the latest report of a ministry leader who had fallen into sexual sin and spent much of the evening discussing ways to keep ourselves pure. As that conversation lingered in my mind…
I have been a part of the Southern Baptist Convention for all of my life. But I don’t think I’ve ever known what it means to be Southern Baptist until this past week as I attended my first Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. Seeing its representatives, all 10,000 of them, together in one place afforded…
Theology Along the Way 