I came across the quotation while studying for a message from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount on God's people living as light. As a pastor, I found these words convicting and encouraging. I hope you are blessed by them as well. The church leader should be equipped with all the virtues. He should be poor, so …
A Crash Course in Knowing Christ (Ephesians 1:15-23)
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I continued our new series walking through the New Testament book of Ephesians, entitled "Ephesians: A Crash Course in Basic Christianity." This weekend, I continued with the second half of chapter 1, which offers us a "Crash Course in Knowing Christ." This is really a prayer of Paul that …
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Anonymous, ‘Chi-Rho’ from The Book of Kells
Becoming De-occupied with Ourselves: The Place of Desolation in Prayer (Friedrich von Hügel)
Every once in awhile I come across a work that is a hidden gem. Thanks to the recommendation of Eugene Peterson in his work Take and Read: Spiritual Reading – An Annotated List, I recently finished Baron Friedrich von Hügel's brief work, The Life of Prayer. In the midst of his seven facts concerning God and seven …
A Letter from Prison (Philippians, pt 5)
This is the fifth in a series of posts on Paul's letter to the Philippians. These posts are written from devotional reflections on the Scripture. Paul is driven by an all-consuming desire to know Christ. In one sense, Paul already knows Christ, as he writes: "I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth …
