httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRvmUqa2Hi0 Psalm 145 (The Message) David’s Praise 1 I lift you high in praise, my God, O my King! and I’ll bless your name into eternity. 2 I’ll bless you every day, and keep it up from now to...
This is a continuation of my series on Journeying with Zephaniah. I am looking at the book through the lens of rhetorical structure. Today I want to focus on the books macro-structure, or overarching themes. This book is enclosed by the speaking of...
My previous two posts (here and here) looked at what many philosophers deem to be a special kind of knowledge, one which is the basis for the standard view of knowledge. It is called propositional knowledge. Here is a short recap. Propositional...
I am reading Lamin Sanneh‘s book, Disciples of All Nations. Sanneh is currently the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and Professor of History at Yale Divinity School. Sanneh was born in Gambia, and studied at a...
The Sunday Psalm! Psalm 47 (New Living Translation) For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. 1 Come, everyone! Clap your hands! Shout to God with joyful praise! 2 For the Lord Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the...
In thinking about monastic practices that help form us in a contemporary culture, I want to turn to the idea of lectio divina. Lectio Divina is Latin for divine reading, spiritual reading, or “holy reading,” and represents a traditional...
It hit me like a ton of bricks. I have read this passage many times, but this time it was there in front of God and everyone. It shook me to the core, so much in fact that I had to pause and ponder its implications. Going through the genealogy of...
From Is 43:22-44:23
In this sermon, I challenged our church to consider: How God-honoring is our worship In 43:22-24, God weeps at how bad their the nation's worship was.
Titus 1:5-9. The Message I left you in charge in Crete so you could complete what I left half-done. Appoint leaders in every town according to my instructions. As you select them, ask, “Is this man well-thought-of? Is he committed to his wife...
David Fitch notes that for most evangelicals, inerrancy is an empty ideology that is ultimately concerned about being "right"