A graceless heart can be at the centre of what appears to be a commendable life. Not demonstrably bad, even hardworking and knowledgeable. But graceless hearts grumble. From Jared Longshore at Founders Ministries: Jesus found grumbling so off putting that he lined up three parables to fix it. We are commanded in the Bible to …
The first of two posts by Steve McAlpine interacting with the basic ideas expressed in the post by Murray Lean I linked to last week called The Creeping Trend Of Church Absenteeism. Two significant points that I liked were firstly; McAlpine’s reservations about motivating people to more frequent attendance through guilt or greater effort. And …
“Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90: 12) is one of my favourite verses in the Psalms. In an excerpt from his new book, Learning To Love The Psalms, Robert Godfrey points out that the lesson of the verse is not to focus on making the …
Zack Eswine writes about the growth that can, but doesn’t always follow a burnout experience. “Just because we fall, that doesn’t mean we are necessarily wise now. We have to be teachable to the thing that God’s doing.” The lesson translates to other experiences. Are You Teachable? I don’t wish a breakdown or burnout on …
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