As I wrote in a recent song, "To Bethlehem," our Christmas tree was whatever I could find out in the woods behind our home on our little turnip patch farm in South Louisiana. The skinny little, wild spruce pine often made Charlie Brown's tree look pretty Continue Reading
What if? Gideon’s Sword and Our Ministry Together: A Letter to Colleagues as We Begin a New Semester
I share with you that which God has put on my heart this morning, early, before the sun rises, while the dew is still wet on the Carolina ground. "And they cried out, 'A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!'” (from Judges 7:20). The message of the Continue Reading
Let the Broken Cry Out: A Devotional on Psalm 34
Bad theology leads to heartache. Heartache led to good theology applied, brings healing. My friend and long time backing vocalist in music I have recorded, Cindy Gibbs, has written a song that reminds me of this whole matter. Cindy calls it, “Break Continue Reading
Lausanne Lesson # 5: Peace is Possible
Yesterday the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization dealt with the desperately needed issue of reconciliation; a reconciliation that must come, through Jesus Christ, out of the brokenness of our sin condition in the world today. That theme hit Continue Reading
Israeli Bashing, International Mindlessness, and Isaiah 58:1: “We have a problem”
Daniel Henninger wrote in the Wall Street Journal on June 2 2010 about the almost unimaginable display of international hypocrisy and Ostrich-like response by an increasingly weakened West and radicalized Middle East. Daniel Henninger's insights and the Continue Reading
Engrafted Not Replaced
Reformed Perspectives Magazine, a journal put out by Third Millennium Ministries, has published an article I wrote entitled, Engrafted, Not Replaced: How I View Ethnic Israel, and Why I Support Ethnic Jews and the State of Israel and Pray for Them to Continue Reading
Sacred Assembly: The Link Between the Seminary and Revival
I draw your attention to a teaching that arises from Scriptures where the leaders of the ancient Church of God, in Israel, were to call the people to a holy or "sacred" assembly or, in the New Testament reading, the people of God were admonished to Continue Reading
