I mentioned last week that reading good Christian books was one of the very enjoyable experiences of last year’s discipleship program.  I wanted this week to comment a bit on the trend we discovered...

Tozer establishes the necessity to think rightly about God.  “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”  The reason for this is summed up in his statement, “we tend, by a secret law of the soul, to move toward our mental image of God...” 

The fact that life is experienced in days and weeks and months and years is neither arbitrary nor inconsequential.  In fact, these time divisions were established before humans were even created (except the week).  God deliberately prepared a world, and indeed an entire solar system, that marks the passage of time incrementally, and especially by days...

God did an amazing work during our two week discipleship camp.  He worked in all the ways we had hoped, and more; including ways completely unexpected.  My fellow worker Andrew said it was “wonderful to behold”...

The world is good.  By “good” I mean both that the things of earth are wondrous and enjoyable; and that they are right and acceptable to enjoy.  The things of the earth are good things, and are meant for us to enjoy.  The New Testament, particularly the writings of John, staunchly refute the contemporary gnostic teaching that physicality was opposed to spirituality...

Read Genesis chapter one.  What comes to your mind?  Five years ago, I would have said the Creationism vs. Evolution debate.  I would have spouted off a few things that stood out to me this time—ammunition for the debate, like maybe some little tidbit that made a day-age model impractical...

Desiring God blog featured an excellent article by Fabienne Harford, who is expounding on a paper written by Jonathan Edwards on the symptoms of pride in our lives...