This morning I came across one of those Bible verses that seem to silence the outside world and usher in a lasting and eternal perspective. It’s 2 Chronicles 16:9, a verse that has impacted my life greatly in the past (so much so that I wrote a song surrounding it about 7 or 8 years…
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One of the most beneficial things that I took away from college and seminary, in terms of my personal Bible study, is by far the mechanical layout. That’s really just a five-dollar word for “diagram.” It’s a method of diagraming a text so that the main points are excavated and brought to the surface. I…
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Dear sweet mother of our Ugandan daughter, I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. I’ve been thinking about how it must have been when that lady from the orphanage came to visit you in your village. She came with paperwork in her hands. And I’ve been wondering how you must have felt when…
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Lately I’ve been slamming the twitter world with what’s happening in Uganda right now through my dad’s ministry. He and my mom are currently there with a team of about forty volunteers ministering to the Ugandan people as they do every summer–treating the sick, ministering to pastors and pastor’s wives, preaching the Gospel and seeing…
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It’s frustrating how circumstances tend to shape our view of God’s love and faithfulness. I guess that’s our default condition. I know that for me, at least, it’s a constant battle. I think that’s why I love the Psalms so much. I feel like I can relate to the brutal honesty that many of them…
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