Fascinating article on Derrick Rose including this quote. Internal drives aren’t easy to understand, much less defeat, even if is healthy; Michael Jordan won every battle he fought, and he is entering middle age unhappy and lost. Derrick Rose…
Why Did God Allow Satan to Harm Job and His Family?
Why would God allow Satan to harm Job? Is God placing side bets while we battle cancer or lose loved ones? Here are some preliminary thoughts in response to those questions. Any study of the book of Job raises questions…
Missing Our Son at Cedarville
Jamie and I continue to miss our children who are away at college. But we are thankful that they have chosen colleges like Trinity International and Cedarville. This week I wrote a guest post for Cedarville about how we are…
Four Questions Every Thinking Human Being Must Answer
If we are to take our heads out of the sand, and hit the hard questions head-on, so that we can be prepared for suffering, as we plan to do in the book of Job on Sunday, then we need…
The “Head in the Sand” Approach To Suffering is a Bad Idea
Everyone needs to prepare for suffering. It’s sure to come. Step forward in preparing for suffering by being part of the Job sermon series at the Red Brick Church beginning on October 5, 2014. Suffering is a fact of life.…
Properly Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
Technical Alert: My target audience for my blog is our church family. Whenever I consider writing a post I ask, “Would this benefit our flock?” This post is a little more technical than I would normally write. But it’s important…
Hitting Hard Questions Head On
Only Christianity can truly hit the hard questions head-on. A new sermon series at the Red Brick Church will address the central questions of life. Thoughtful human beings encounter vexing questions: · Why are we here? What’s the purpose of…
Would you agree that “time” is the hard part?
Do you agree – – “time” is the aspect of suffering that makes it so difficult? I have been preparing for months a sermon series: A Journey With Job: Seeing and Savoring the Beauty of Christ Amid the Long Walk…
What Our Exhausted World Needs
Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote his important book, Preachers and Preaching, in the wake of the protests of the 60’s and 70’s. In it, Lloyd-Jones argued that what a tired and disillusioned age desperately needs is the proclamation of the…
Experiencing the Good Hand of The Lord On Our Ministries
From Ezra and Nehemiah, we learn that when local churches move forward in ways that are: (1) Shaped by the Word (2) Drenched in Prayer (3) Accompanied by hard work, God’s people can expect to experience his good and strong…