Do you know anyone who has a servant’s heart? They will go out of their way, it seems, to serve others, to think of others first. Do you know anyone like that? Now if they asked a favor of you, are you more or less prone to go the extra step to make sure they […]
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The Holy Spirit, through His faithful servant Andrew Murray, reminded me this morning that Jesus laying down His life meant more than His crucifixion on Golgotha’s hill. That was the culmination of a lifetime of dying to Himself.
And we, as those redeemed by His sacrifice, are called to the same moment-by-moment laying down of our lives, […]
The Old Testament is full of types of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And king David, several times, acts or speaks in a manner that is a precursor to his coming Lord. There is one account that I came across last night that I noticed before, but forgot about. It speaks so clearly […]
shower with love
Posted in Missional on Dec 26th, 2007
James Taylor told us, “Shower the people you love with love.”
Jesus of Nazareth told us, “Shower with love those who hate you, who abuse you, who speak falsely of you, who scorn you. Shower them with love, with the love that’s been poured over you.”
you came to save
Posted in Poetry, Faith, Missional, Worship on Dec 25th, 2007
“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
(Matthew 1:21)
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
(Luke 19:10)
You came as a babe
To seek and to save,
The leper, the lame, the lost.
You lived to die
So you could buy
Our […]
kinsman redeemer
Posted in Theology, Scripture, Faith, Missional on Dec 21st, 2007
In Deuteronomy 25:5-10, the law of a kinsman redeemer is spelled out this way: “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go into her and take her as his […]
there is no pit
Posted in Poetry, Quotes, Missional, Worship on Dec 3rd, 2007
In “The Hiding Place,” just before Betsy ten Boom died in the concentration camp, she looked her sister Corrie in the eye and feebly said, “…must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. They will listen to us, […]
Last night, I had the privilege of going with some friends to the Electric Factory in Philly to see Rob Bell, and to listen to his talk entitled, “The gods aren’t angry.” As expected, Rob was great. My friend Dan Fisher, from whom I got the ticket, told me that the venue was standing room […]
In “The Return of the King,” during the coronation ceremony where Lord Aragorn (the Ranger formally known as Strider) is finally crowned as king, an event happens in the movie that did not happen in the book. After the crowning, Aragorn is moving through the gathered throng. And he comes upon the four hobbits who […]
Well, we’re back from a WONDERFUL weekend. Friday evening we headed to Bird-in-Hand, PA to the annual H*VMI retreat. It was a refreshing time full of testimonies and intercessory prayer and worship and good Bible teaching.
My favorite part of the weekend was the testimonies. Various missionaries got up and told, with tears and laughter, of […]
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