Category Spiritual Markers

Five years ago I was serving as the BCM Director at UAM. I served 8 years there under the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. During the latter part of 2000, we experienced a marked sense of apathy, complacency, and a general…

HELP! FIRE, 11/20/2002 This is the notes from a Bible study I led at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at UAM. Found it and thought I’d post it. Look at four different snapshots that all reveal one thing: 1. 2 Chronicles…

It’s an unfortunate truth. We know it but refuse to consider it for any length of time. We’re self-consumed. Read Oscar Wilde’s confession: I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed…

I’ve started reading John Piper’s Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, one chapter a day as an igniter to my reflection and devotion time and am thoroughly enjoying it. You can see one of the entries below about the mixer as…

Bear with me, and don’t get confused (mixed up). I wouldn’t want to whip you into a frenzy with my whirling thoughts here. Carolyn’s birthday is December 24. Yea, I know. It’s a downer as a man to have to…

You may want to toodle on over to CNN’s website and read this article about two Italian men who are trying to get the courts to decide Jesus’ existence…

What got this line of thought going was some reflections about our church. It’s almost three years old. We have yet to see an adult make a decision to follow Jesus Christ for the first time. I have lots of…

First of all, you’ve got to read these four chapters! They’re awesome. Even wade through chapter 3, which details the amazing cooperation and delegation the Nhehmiah ordered to repair the wall. Nehemiah prayed all the time. In each significant circumstance,…

It’s called spiritual discernment. And there doesn’t seem to be much of it these days in the western church. Jesus told us to beware of false prophets in Matthew 7.15. Yet we naively and ignorantly refuse to acknowledge their very…