Living and Dying to Show the Preciousness of Christ
Here is a sneak peek at our speaking/ministry schedule for the next few weeks! Some of these times are tentative and are subject to change. South African’s like to “go with the flow!†Which keeps me on my toes! Would love to have you praying alongside of us!
South Africa Chronicles 2013-2014, Part 2:
For A Sign and For A Season
There ain’t anything quite like a wedding; and so much the better if it is a Christian wedding. Weddings are a fist to the face of Satan’s dark empire. Weddings are a sermon without words, a message preached without saying anything but “I Do.†I love weddings. What happens at a wedding is a miracle which only God can do: take two very different beings, from two very different families, and wed those two beings into one flesh. A man and a woman alone can’t do it, a pair of Parents can’t do it, a Preacher can’t do it, and a Government certainly can’t do it; only a sovereign, almighty God can do such a thing. [Read more…] about For A Sign and For A Season
We live in a viral age. For good or ill . . . and I’d say the majority of these viruses bode for ill. I have seen two articles twittering their way across the book of faces and receiving a bunch of “likes;†that not so ancient and ever so irritating, serpentine degradation of public discourse. As an aside, I do not like “likes.†In saying this, I know that people will “like†this blog, thus, as I sigh and accept the inevitable, I return to the topic at hand with hopes that this discussion will help push us to a greater degree of discernment as to what we “like†as Christians. [Read more…] about Leaven in the Lump
South Africa Chronicles 2014, Part 1:
A Bunch of Baby-Haters
December 10, 2013 A.D.
Elsje and I are now in South Africa for a few week stint of family time, ministry, writing projects, and rejuvenation. It has been quite a year, and so this visit with Elsje’s family will be a much needed opportunity to reflect on all that God has done, and seek all that God has in store. We hope to put a good dent in writing our love story; and Marlé’s Ouma and Oupa (Grandma and Grandpa) are eating up all this time with their grand-baby! [Read more…] about A Bunch of Baby-Haters
Scripture warns us to take heed over 60 times, and each of these instances would provide a profitable meditation for our soul. We are exhorted, when we think we are standing, to take heed lest we fall (1 Cor. 10:12). The nature of man’s soul is such that we can be starving spiritually, and yet think ourselves healthy and robust merely because we do a whole bunch of spiritually oriented things. Modern Christianity is filled with many instances of this standing but actually falling paradox.
Sixty-five stormy, sickening days at sea, years of persecution behind them in England, a cold winter and hostile unknown land before them is how the Pilgrim’s were welcomed to the New World which would one day be known as America. As they disembarked there at Cape Cod, though weary, there was a fiery zeal in their souls. They had many trials to face, and one year later, after a meagre harvest and having endured a brutal winter, they rejoiced and gave thanks for what God had provided. Many adventurers were traveling to the New World, in hopes of finding gold. As C.T. Studd would ask, “Are gamblers for gold so many, and gamblers for God so few?”
[Read more…] about A Thanksgiving Passion
The flesh is always itching, and no amount of Gold Bond will help. There are numerous ways humans seek to scratch the itch, and the fight I want to pick is not primarily with the backscratcher or the ointment, it is with the itch itself. The flesh’s itch is the itch for gratification. Although God made us to be satisfied, delighted, even overjoyed, we decided that we want to be satisfied by anything other than Him. We don’t mind using aspects of Who He is to gratify us; but we don’t want just Him, only Him, nothing but Him. Human nature is such that it is always seeking ways to be satisfied, soothed, petted, and coddled. We itch for appeasement, pleasure, and self-satisfaction. The itch should simply be called “selfishness.â€Â 
[Read more…] about Scratching the Itch
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