This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps 118:24) When I first became a Christian in the Navy, this verse made up one of my favorite songs. It had parts. The guys sang, “this is the day.” And the women followed with, “this is the day.” And so […]
“Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that’” (Jas 4:15). Shortly after my wife died, someone came up to me and said, “Welcome to the new normal.” I didn’t have any idea what he was talking about. Since then, I think I’ve figured it out. I […]
Yesterday I posted a list of things that can make change difficult. You can read it here. Today, I have another list of things that often make change hard. Sometimes the fear of failing can make change difficult. We may have tried that before and things went well for a few weeks, but then the wheels […]
I think it’s rather easy to agree that a heterosexual man who commits adultery with a woman has sinned — they both have. We get that. A homosexual man, acting on that impulse with another man, has sinned — they both have. Moving back one step, to the level of desire, a heterosexual man desiring […]
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph 4:1–3). In chapter four of his letter to […]
My last post talked about owning our sin, particularly the sin of adultery. But I didn’t have space to talk about what someone who has sinned does now. That’s what this post is about. The status is that the person has confessed his (I know women commit adultery too, it just gets crazy to say, […]
Introduction We live in a world consumed with worry, anxiety, and strife. Everywhere we look we see people driven by the “what if’s.” What if this happens? What if this doesn’t happen? What will we do if this doesn’t happen? What will we do if? Much of what we call depression, is actually the physical […]
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 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 […]
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