A Deafening Silence

“Our God comes; he does not keep silence…” (Psalm 50.3 ESV) I’ve got little kids. And with that, there are plenty of sleep-deprived or at least sleep-interrupted nights. Accidents, rowdy throw-downs, midnight one-act plays, midnight medicine runs and jaunts to the kitchen for another cup of water, a diaper change here, a massaged growth-pain there. Plenty of “Daddy!” cries that …

Opening Day

Sunshine throughout the majority of the country. Fresh cut grass. Red dirt and chalk lines. Old friends getting together and old rivals battling it out… If you’re like a lot of folks I know (myself sort of included), you may have started yesterday off giddy with excitement. “Why?” you may ask – two words… Opening Day. Now, in all honesty, …

Fighting Half-Hearted Prayers for the Nations

If you’re not familiar with Ligonier Ministries, their site is definitely worth checking out. Some of the greatest theological minds, today, post articles on their blog every single week. It is a ripe field for gleaning a lot of knowledge, anytime. Just today, Joel Beeke posted an article titled “5 Methods for Fighting Half-Hearted Prayer.” Not prone to piggy-back very …

When Terror Strikes

A hero of the Christian faith (not to mention Judaism and even, to an extent, Islam), David is known as the warrior-poet, a man after God’s own heart, and one of the greatest rulers in all of history. He united peoples, led his nation in worship of the Living God, and even had mess-ups along the way that brought him …

Heroes of Missions – St. Patrick

March 17th – St. Patrick’s Day – we celebrate mostly with parties, pretending to be Irish for the day, wearing green (and decking EVERYTHING we can in the color), and overall just having fun together. But, you know what gets lost a lot of the time in the mix of St. Paddy’s Day? The work of St. Patrick himself. Originally …

The Letdown…

It happens all the time – on the flight home from the big trip, on the second (or third!) day after the wedding ceremony, in the middle of the third night being home with the newborn, the morning after winning the big game – the letdown. After emotions and energy have built for days, weeks, months, years or even decades, …