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C, my comment was primarily a response to Point Number 9 in the original post. My thought was that we might NOT always see that kind of immediate visible fruit (we haven't). I think open air preaching is good and right nonetheless.
The Gospel in the Open-Air Again
This is first post in a series. Here are links to posts that follow. Guidelines for Open-Air Preaching Open-Air Preaching is Optional? Missional Open-Air Preaching Steps Toward Open-Air Preaching The Dismissal of Open-Air Preaching ---------- Something has been burning in my belly. I can't ...
You're right, David. Dangers abound. Your thoughts here remind me of a line from an old Rich Mullins song: "The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the Giver of all good things." How humbling and true.
The Dangers of Busyness, Success, and Prosperity
We just returned from a wonderful two-week adventure in Hawaii for our "The Roaming Boomers®" online travel magazine. Although the pathway still seems quite foggy for this enterprise, we have enjoyed a fair amount of success and we are at one of those critically important break-though points t...
Agreed, Corey. I'm not discouraged by the lack of apparent fruit. My thought, which I didn't make clear, was that Point Number 9 in the original post might not be always be true. I think open air preaching is good and right nonetheless.
The Gospel in the Open-Air Again
This is first post in a series. Here are links to posts that follow. Guidelines for Open-Air Preaching Open-Air Preaching is Optional? Missional Open-Air Preaching Steps Toward Open-Air Preaching The Dismissal of Open-Air Preaching ---------- Something has been burning in my belly. I can't ...
Our pastor has done some open air preaching in some of the public parks here. I love the concept, but we haven't seen any fruit from it.
The Gospel in the Open-Air Again
This is first post in a series. Here are links to posts that follow. Guidelines for Open-Air Preaching Open-Air Preaching is Optional? Missional Open-Air Preaching Steps Toward Open-Air Preaching The Dismissal of Open-Air Preaching ---------- Something has been burning in my belly. I can't ...
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GIVEAWAY: Tim Keller | King's Cross
I've been given the chance, thanks to the fine folks at Dutton Books (@DuttonBooks) to GIVEAWAY TWO COPIES of Dr. Timothy Keller's newest book, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus (Kindle | audio). It will be released on February 22nd. This is also the first book to have ...
Grumbling comes SO naturally to us, doesn't it? What evil hearts we all have, and what a great need for a Savior. The title of your post reminds me of an old song I like by The Waiting called Hands in the Air. Here's a link to listen to it:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/s/Hands+In+The+Air/pzd2z?src=5
Rightly Raising My Angry Fist To God?
When various trials occur in our lives, it is very common for our human nature to murmur. I'm not suggesting that murmuring is necessarily a good or right thing. I'm just saying that it happens. Here's what I am saying: when we murmur, our angst is generally misplaced. One thing I have lear...
Thanks, David. This is one of the more thought-provoking things I've read recently. Think how much better it would have been if I could have heard it! :)
An Apologetic for Using the Means of Grace
Yesterday, I blogged about my friend Bill's struggle to be faithful to his quiet times and if you read the post you will see that I tried to divert his attention from himself, his performance and his failures to follow the law of the quiet time to think on the merits of Christ on his behalf. My...
David, I saw Lamb in small coffee house concert in 1975. This particular song was always a favorite of mine. Thanks!
Listen as God Sings to you From Hosea 14
Bible in a Year Series - Day #202 - This post is part of a year-long series where we are reading chronologically through the Bible. Click here to learn more. You are most welcome to join along at any time. Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Hosea 8-14. I find Hosea's poetry to be most be...
Solomon is such an enigma (but then so are most of us). The description in 1 Kings 11 of Solomon's idolatry and half-hearted devotion, right up to the end of his life, is nothing short of tragic. Yet God chose to inspire him and speak through him; and I love to read his writing. In any event, I'm sure that God's choice of Solomon says a lot more about God's grace than it does about Solomon's character.
Help! I'm Struggling to get Aboard the King Solomon Bandwagon
Bible in a Year Series - Day #151 - This post is part of a year-long series where we are reading chronologically through the Bible. Click here to learn more. You are most welcome to join along at any time. Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: 1 Kings 3-4, 2 Chronicles 1, and Psalm 72.It ...
D&K was an old Christian rock band, but it dissolved long, long ago. That song was from their first album, released in 1979, which I still have on vinyl. As with a lot of other bands, their first album was my favorite.
Some Trust in Chariots and Some in Horses, but we Trust in the Name of the Lord our God.
Bible in a Year Series - Day #131 - This post is part of a year-long series where we are reading chronologically through the Bible. Click here to learn more. You are most welcome to join along at any time. Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: 2 Samuel 10, 1 Chronicles 19, & Psalm 20. Ha...
David,
Every time I hear someone say, "God helps those who help themselves" I think of an old song by DeGarmo & Key with this lyric:
You say that God is a God of goodness
He only helps those who help themselves
You see I found God, he helps the helpless
And leave all the rest to help themselves
I love it.
Some Trust in Chariots and Some in Horses, but we Trust in the Name of the Lord our God.
Bible in a Year Series - Day #131 - This post is part of a year-long series where we are reading chronologically through the Bible. Click here to learn more. You are most welcome to join along at any time. Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: 2 Samuel 10, 1 Chronicles 19, & Psalm 20. Ha...
Here's the article:
The Goal of God's Love May Not Be What You Think It Is
Many blessings to you, David.
If you Were Standing at the Edge of the Grand Canyon Today, What Would be Going Through Your Mind?
Bible in a Year Series - Day #120 - This post is part of a year-long series where we are reading chronologically through the Bible. Click here to learn more. You are most welcome to join along at any time. Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Psalm 102-104. I took this photograph of the...
That's a great photo, David. I made my second trip to the Grand Canyon last summer. I was 10 years old the first time I saw it (that was 1965), but I felt the same awe and wonder this time as I did the first time.
I like the way John Piper uses that sense of awe to illustrate our proper response to God's glory in the article, "The Goal of God's Love May Not Be What You Think It Is." He writes:
"Do people go to the Grand Canyon to increase their self-esteem? Probably not. This is, at least, a hint that the deepest joys in life come not from savoring the self, but from seeing splendor. And in the end even the Grand Canyon will not do. We were made to enjoy God."
Wow.
If you Were Standing at the Edge of the Grand Canyon Today, What Would be Going Through Your Mind?
Bible in a Year Series - Day #120 - This post is part of a year-long series where we are reading chronologically through the Bible. Click here to learn more. You are most welcome to join along at any time. Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Psalm 102-104. I took this photograph of the...
Drawing from a different passage in Hebrews than Phil, I wonder if it could also be seen as an example of the fact that God disciplines all of his children, and always for their good, although it never seems like it at the time (Heb. 12:3-11). No one, not even Moses, is exempt from God's discipline. It's humbling and sobering that God cares more about our holiness than our happiness, and is actually (thankfully!) more committed to our holiness than we are.
Bible in a Year Series: Moses Blows his Cool and is Subsequently Banned From the Promised Land
Bible in a Year Series - Day #62 -This post is part of a year-long series where we are reading chronologically through the Bible. Click here to learn more. You are most welcome to join along at any time. Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Numbers 18-20. We have just fast-forwarded 39 ye...
David, I don't want to minimize the truth or impact of Trueman's article, but I do want to let you know that your writing has often encouraged me. Your blog was one of the first I ever read. In fact, I had to look up a definition for blog after I stumbled on yours! I've bookmarked some of your posts and referred back to them more than once. I doubt any of us do anything with perfectly pure motives; yet God uses us. There's no praise in that for us, but there is praise for God in it. We've never met and never will, most likely, but I love you as a brother and continue to pray for you.
Health and Life Update 2-26-10
Hi everyone. I'm not sure how many folks are still reading this blog but to those of you who are thanks, and I especially thank you for your prayers and encouragement. Here's a few random updates. The storm my daughter let you know about here on the blog back in January has passed. I'm stayi...
We had a devastating ice storm here about a year ago today. We had about 3 inches of ice on everything. Huge oak trees bent and broke under the weight, power poles snapped like toothpicks, and the entire town was out of power for 5 days.
GIGANTIC TREE SPLIT BY ICE STORM
Hubby and I sat watching Fox News just now and a thunderous crash with splitting limbs interrupted our viewing. We went to the front door and our gigantic Mulberry shade tree was split in two. The side that fell went to the left of our ho use and fell across the driveway and lawn of our neigh...
To this day, one of the best things I've ever read on the subject of adoption into God's family is the chapter entitled "Sons of God" in J.I. Packer's book, "Knowing God."
What does it mean to have God as your Father?
I have been thinking quite a bit about my post yesterday on the Doctrine of Adoption. I have also been listening to Dr. Albert Mohler's exposition of the book of Matthew on my iPod. Yesterday, while putting in my 5 miles on the elliptical machine, Dr. Mohler was beginning to dig into the Sermo...
Wow. I used to read it out of one of the volumes of the Childcraft Encyclopedias we had when I was a kid. Funny how something like that can bring back so many good childhood memories.
Remembering the Owl and the Pussycat
When I was a child, my grandmother lived in a home, from the very early 1900's, with a large stone screened porch on the front. Very often, after our meals, we would relax on the porch, and there my grandmother would read fairy tales to me. As I recall, there was a small bookcase packed full o...
I can only feel sorry for those who live where there is no snow. Snow's fun. Now, that ice storm we had last winter...that's another matter!
Grandma's Front Porch: A Place of Deep-Seated Memories
Yesterday, I referenced my grandmother's front porch. Well, today I was most pleased to find photographs of that front porch from my Uncle Don in my e-mail. My uncle is now the owner of this early 1900's home, and he wanted also to remind me that those big green things are called trees. Uncl...
Hey, David, can you check that link? I can't get it to work, but don't know if it's my problem or a broken link. Thanks.
Dr. Sameh Maurice, Egyptian Evangelical Pastor of 7,000, Speaks at Scottsdale Bible Church
Yesterday, Scottsdale Bible Church celebrated its International Missions Festival, Celebrate the Harvest. This large celebration happens only once every three years, and this year brought over 90 people from all over the world to Scottsdale. One of the highlights of the festival was a message ...
I was fascinated with the Saguaro when we made our flying trip through Phoenix this summer, David. (I still hate it that we didn't have time to stop and see you.) And I love the thought that their arms are already stretched heavenward in praise!
This post made me think of a song written by Kerry Livgren (who composed "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind" for Kansas). It's a great song. Here are the lyrics (sorry about the length):
Dreaming awake as I'm lying down
Gazing at starlit skies
The feeling grows as my wonder shows
Trying to crystallize
The wind in the trees is a melody,
Just like me, yearning to harmonize
The rivers speak and the waters cry,
Wanting to hear Your name
Deep in the bowels of an ancient earth,
Groaning to be reclaimed
Anticipating the grand return,
Crying out for the page to turn
I want to know as I am known
And see You as You are
Every knee will bow,
And all will proclaim
All creation sings, hail the King of kings
All creation sings, to the glory of Your name
Joy at the end of the great decline
For all who will heed Your call
An end to the sin and an end to the pain
You will restore us all
We're sons of dust in the Son of Man
Chosen long e'er the world began.
I want to know as I am known
And see You as You are
Every knee will bow,
And all will proclaim
All creation sings, hail the King of kings
All creation sings,
now we lift our hands in praise,
such an anthem we will raise,
when Your kingdom comes to earth
Then Shall all the Saguaro of the Desert Sing for Joy
Psalm 96:12b - ...then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy. As we began hiking around the desert, I found myself continually under the sneaking suspicion that the Saguaro were trapped in their prickly confinement, and were longing for the day when they might be released to become th...
Hey, David. I intended to blog my way through our study, but I just haven't been able to find the time. It seems like my blogging has taken a back seat to a lot of other things. Wish I had more time for it.
This post is all I've managed to blog about the book, so far. At the rate I'm going, that may be all I ever post on it.
Resisting Balconeer Theology
Babelsberg Tower, creative commons photograph by gari.baldi, on Flickr. My wife and I have just started reading J.I. Packer's Knowing God. I can tell from the very first paragraph that we are going to enjoy swimming in the mind of Packer, and gleaning from his view of God. In the preface of h...
I think you know that's one of my all-time favorite books. I'm leading my men's Sunday School class through a study of it right now. We've only made it through chapter 8, but it's been one of the best studies we've ever done.
Resisting Balconeer Theology
Babelsberg Tower, creative commons photograph by gari.baldi, on Flickr. My wife and I have just started reading J.I. Packer's Knowing God. I can tell from the very first paragraph that we are going to enjoy swimming in the mind of Packer, and gleaning from his view of God. In the preface of h...
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