This is the second Sunday of “Chew on This,” a look at the Psalms by Leslie of Light Came. We’re invited to read the Psalm and post our personal thoughts about it.
Psalm 4
Answer me when I call,
O God of my righteousness!
You have given me relief when I was in distress.
Be gracious to me and hear [...]

Leslie from Light Came began a series yesterday that’s based on The Treasury of David, a collection of Charles Spurgeon’s studies in the Psalms. Each Sunday she’ll select one verse/thought to “chew on.” She’ll share her thoughts after reading it, and she’s invited us to join in. It’s a very profitable way to spend [...]

Oswald Chambers has a way of poking his finger in the eye of discontent. Every time I come to the reading titled “The Habit of Enjoying Adversity” in My Utmost for His Highest, there’s a certain internal groan because I have an advanced degree in not enjoying adversity. But, thanks to the Spirit within me, [...]

The December 1 issue of World Magazine runs a short article, “Seeking but not finding: The mother church of the seeker movement has a mid-life crisis,” about Willow Creek Church. I’ve read about the “confession” made by Bill Hybels, but had not read the statement quoted in this article.
“We made a mistake,” Hybels said [...]

Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable–”I have [...]

Today’s local newspaper ran an article from the New York Times regarding the use of a mature video game as a means of drawing young people to church. The article, “Thou Shalt Not Kill–Except In A Video Game At Church?” reads, in part:
First the percussive sounds of sniper fire and the thrill of the [...]

“Be patient with me; God’s not finished with me yet.” So said the woman with a coy smile and lilting inflection in her voice. The worn out bumper-sticker slogan had come to the rescue of yet another Christian caught in an embarrassing situation. I responded with a weak “Uh-huh” and watched her walk away. I’ve [...]

Since my mind has been whirling around the thoughts about seeing clearly, it went back to a post I wrote last September, which hopefully will serve to expand on the subject, or at least our response to it. If we’re responding well to what God’s word says about specks and logs (Luke 6:41-42) and [...]

I’ve prided myself that I’m a nice person, a kind person. Catch that word, prided? In comparing myself to a lot of folks I encounter and observe, my thoughts run this way: how can they do that; I would never think of doing that! What follows, then, is an increase in my esteem of myself. [...]

God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may [...]