Category Spiritual Markers

Still reading Phillip Yancey’s incredible book entitled simply and descriptively, Prayer. Part Three of the book has produced more reflection and insight than the first two parts (there are five total parts). Yancey summarizes the Lord’s Prayer by saying that…

Are you an employee or a child of the boss? Bill Lollar has a great article about your attitudes toward God. Some of us feel like God “owes” us for our work for Him, while others always seem to be…

I’ve been reading through Romans over the past few months, digesting each chapter section as if it were a rack of ribs. The power and depth and beauty of theology in Romans is something that alternately draws one in and…

Derek over at Waiting in Athens has a powerfully short blog entry related to what excuses we offer to God for not following him. Here they are: God hasn’t spoken to me directly. This dangerous excuse has many forms, including:…

I’ve been reading through Romans, chapter by chapter, savoring every line, verse and thought explosion. I can’t imagine a skeptic of Christianity reading this ancient document and not being at the very least deeply intrigued by it. It is sheer…

That would be the modern-day, Arkansas version of what John Newton (former slave owner and author of the hymn Amazing Grace) wrote to a young pastor. Cavman excerpts some of the letter in an entry on his blog. It’s a…

“For one who had died has been set free from sin.” (Romans 6.7) In chapters 5-7 of Romans, the apostle Paul engages the Jewish mind in some heady debate, taking them to task for elevating the law to their master…

I think the current furor began earlier this year when it began to circulate that John Piper, theologian par excellent, used “profanity” in a message at Passion 07. I wrote about it here. Then there’s the “cussin’ pastor,” Mark Driscoll…