David died peacefully at home on Friday, June 7, 2019, surrounded by his family. He fought the good fight, he finished the race, he kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7) David is a great, great man of God. He will be missed by those he left behind.
Bible Reading Challenge: John 18:15-27
In reading my Bible Reading Challenge text this morning I noticed, maybe for the first time, that one of Jesus’ disciples needed to talk with a woman who was guarding the gate to allow Peter to enter the courtyard for Jesus’ first interrogation. The text says, “And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another […]
The Strength of Weakness
The following was copied from CCEF’s Updates from David Powlison. You can find the original here. June 3, 2019 David Powlison was invited to give the closing comments at the Westminster Graduation Ceremony on May 23, 2019. He was unable to attend personally but CCEF’s Dean of Faculty, Mike Emlet read the following on David’s […]
Pursue Peace
There is a lot of talk in the world and the church about making, having, maintaining, and pursuing peace. Hebrews 12:14 tells the readers to “pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord….” What I want to talk about here is peace and how to pursue it. Peace […]
Real Objective Change
When I was in seminary, I found myself in an odd discussion with a fellow student about whether anything objective or real happened inside or to an individual when he becomes a Christian. I think it is odd because how could anyone think that nothing happens to a person when they believe. I suppose he […]
Jesus And The Donkey
The other day a young lady asked me a couple of really great questions that I answered but later thought I ought to do some more research on and give her a better answer. As it turns out my initial answer wasn’t quite correct. Here ‘s the text that she was referring to: Now when […]
Biblical Counseling and Mental Illness
Some great stuff here.
Religion?
I read the other day that atheism is the fastest growing religion in the world. It got me thinking. The Bible says that everything is about God (1 Cor 10:31; Col 3:17; 1 Pet 4:11). This means that everything is religious. The things we normally consider religious are religious of course: prayer, the study of […]
The Antithesis In The Right Place
I recently read this blog post, Heath Lambert, which was a reaction to this post, by David Murray and I was inspired to write something about Biblical counseling as opposed to counseling psychology. The quote these two posts are responding to is this: I know of no single biblical counselor who rejects the observations of […]