the bible in mosaic

[full disclosure: this review is built from my experiences with a review copy of Holy Bible: Mosaic sent by Tyndale House Publishers as part of their blog tour. Please feel free to read, to click, and to leave comments - Editor Keith Williams will hopefully be able to stop by in the comment section to [...]

Knocking on the Door of the Upper Room

I’ve added a devotional site to my links bar, The Upper Room (I think I saw it on a link from George’s church). In my pursuit of whatever this Christian life is supposed to look like in me, I’ve slacked on being intentional about study, about using and prescribed and planned sites or lists. But [...]

Why Don’t We Forgive More?

"To have our sins forgiven – to start over again, to have God separate us from our mistakes and moral failures, to lift the weight of shame and guilt – this may well be the weightiest evidence that the Liberating King is on the move."- Not Even Sandals, p. 39 (devotional thought from Brian McLaren, [...]

Gratitude Enacted?

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word [...]

Sharing Secrets

"What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. Have we ever let God [...]

Psalm 25

I just thought this was a gorgeous photo (Matt Hooper, posted on Panoramio). It’s the USC Horshoe at night. Found it through Google Earth.
One of my fallbacks for scripture reading is to take "today’s psalms" – today is the 25th, so the reading for today would be Psalm 25, then every 30th one after [...]

Rain On This

Found this tonight on YouTube, my first and still favorite Nooma video from Rob Bell: RAIN.

Hurting Others?

If we obey God, it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the pain begins. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything— it is a delight. But to those who do not love Him, our obedience does cost a great [...]

“Knowing” Overrated

He went out, not knowing where he was going — Hebrews 11:8
Have you ever "gone out" in this way? If so, there is no logical answer possible when anyone asks you what you are doing. One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, "What do you expect to do?" You don’t [...]

What’s Required

I was invited to speak today at a luncheon at a church member’s workplace. Folks have been inspired by the Life @ Work sermon series that has been going on the past few weeks at Seacoast, and they want to share some of that with co-workers. One of the things Maria asked me to [...]