Comments on Ed Stetzer’s Post.

My brother Joe has a strong desire to teach in the inner-city public school system. This video helped me to dream with him. Praise God for teachers like this. Even though Lindsay (the teacher in the above film) isn’t necessarily teaching the gospel to her students, she is gospel teaching. She is striving to do [...]

Psalms 119:91 By your appointment they [heavens and earth] stand this day, for all things are your servants.
All things… the Middlemist Red Flower, 11688 San Ysidro Drive, wasps, clouds, fortune cookies, eBay, Johnny Cash, the billiard hall down the street, public radio, 3M, green olive pizza, stars, thermometers, MTV, my 3rd grade science text book, [...]

“One of the greatest misconceptions of heaven is that it is static, unchanging, and immutable, as if to say that all we get we get all at once, at the beginning. The idea many have is that we are transformed at its inception as much as we ever will be. No. But [...]

Here is a song by John Newton that I heard before for the first time at Together 4 The Gospel Conference, this week.  Let it sink deep.
I Asked The Lord
I asked the Lord that I might grow in faith and
love and every grace, might more of
His salvation know and seek more
earnestly His face
Twas He who [...]

John Piper’s latest Taste and See article is a meditation on 1 Corinthians 12, and it really moved me.  I will share an excerpt of the article below, then some further observations.  You can read the whole article here.
Here is an excerpt:
God may intend to give us the blessing… through the spiritual gifting of another believer. [...]

Passover was the day in which the Jews celebrated their release from slavery in Egypt, and it was customary for the Romans to release and pardon one Jewish prisoner every year at this time. The Jews themselves chose which prisoner the Romans were to pardon. Jesus had been imprisoned during Passover, without charge, [...]

I love to listen to good live music.  The energy of a tight band and a poetic singer who becomes a part of their music.  It is a beautiful experience.  There is something in the air that elicits a response from me, especially if there is a groove.  My heart rises up into my throat [...]

Propositions are important, but they depend on the stories out of which they arise for their power, meaning, and application.  Imagine having all the propositions of faith but none of the stories.  They would be true, but we wouldn’t know what to do with them.
Propositions are shorthand for story.  They stand in for stories that [...]