II Chronicles 16 caught my eye and I wanted to share a little bit of what I learned in my quiet time. In this chapter you have Asa, the King of Judah decide to make a treaty with Ben-Hadad, the King of Syria. In fact, Asa brings silver and gold from the house of the Lord and…
In our human wisdom, we would settle for relational détente, but God wants to bring us to the end of ourselves so that we would see our need for a relationship with him as well as with others. Every painful thing we experience in relationships is meant to remind us of our need for him.…
Literally every ministry in the history of the Church has had trouble raising up good leadership. Jesus himself founded his church on twelve highly flawed men (Eph 3:20-21). And with all of our weaknesses and shortcomings we have a commission to complete (Matt 28:18-20). So the question is how do we raise up people, specifically…
There have been lots of tools I’ve used to disciple men over the years (books, articles, doctrinal studies, etc.) and some have been better or more effective than others. One downfall of books and articles is that many times they’re weak on Bible reading and discussion. Where else do we come to understand who God…
Every other month we rally the men of our church together where we spend time talking about how to be faithful to Jesus in the areas of marriage, parenting and church-life. We’re currently reading through D. A. Carson’s A Call to Spiritual Reformation. As someone who is always interested in seeing how people invest, train and equip…
This morning in my devotion time I read Matthew 8. Within this chapter is the famous encounter Jesus has with the wind and the rain telling them to be quiet, as well as the healing of a leper. In the middle of the chapter is Jesus’ interaction with a centurion, which is a Roman soldier.…
A couple years ago we had the idea to put together a devotional guide to coincide w/the current sermon series I was preaching through. We did this as a way to get men/women in the Word and to disciple men, as they would be responsible for finding a passage and writing some short commentary on…
Theology Along the Way 