In my preparation for the next sermon I am preaching on July 17, I am reading C.S. Lewis’ The Weight of Glory. The quote below reminds us that our hope is in the glory of God, but we do not know that glory fully at once. Just like when we learn to write, we don’t start immediately start writing poetry, or when we start talking we don’t immediately start reciting Shakespeare, we don’t experience the fullness of God’s glory simply by believing in it…
This is a continuation of my last post on The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God.
I ended the last post with a question: will what I’m doing help in proclaiming Christ and him crucified? I would like to offer a few insights into how I know whether or not my work is proclaiming Christ.
How do I respond to success?
I am not one to minimize the importance of education. This should be obvious by the fact that I am a Bible College student and will be an instructor next year. I believe God gave us each other so we could learn together. What I become concerned about is when Jesus Christ and him crucified is not at the center of our education and discussions about God…
Social networking has changed the Web from being centered around content to being centered around relationships. We have seen a drastic increase in marketing through Twitter and Facebook, and now with Google+ making headlines, I’m sure there will be an increase in social marketing through Google…
When my wife and I came to Prairie Bible College last year, we knew God was up to something beyond just going to school for a few years and getting a degree. As the year went on, I began to think about how everyone has different paths and some look quite straight and consistent, and others look more like a roller coaster. I observed other students, and saw how some, like a fellow pastoral student, who are there to get a degree and go back home,…
What a wake-up call! That’s what I thought as I was reading an open letter from Reverend Fletcher Matandika addressing the North American Church. I strongly encourage you to read the entire letter yourself, so…
This is another note I wrote on Facebook back in October 2009, with some minor edits. Quotations are from C.S. Lewis’ sermon, “The Weight of Glory.” “If you ask 20 good men today what they…
The common understanding of faith is that it is a skill or a virtue. We speak of some having great faith, as though they have worked for their ability to trust God and got to…
“Happiness can never be found directly… happiness is always and only a by-product of seeking something else more than happiness… if you seek righteousness more than happiness, you’ll get both. If you seek happiness more…
This morning I thought I’d reflect a bit on the Biblical responsibilities of a father. Most of the references to fathers in the Bible are in the stories themselves, but relatively little instruction is given…
{EAV_BLOG_VER:ac70ec1dca3e76ed} I recently joined a social networking site called Empire Avenue. The purpose of the site is to invest in other people and boost your social networking “value” by getting others to invest in you.…
As I continue to read DeYoung and Cluck’s, Why We Love the Church, I have been thinking about the question of how to make the church not boring but still maintaining the distinction of being…