Since we’ve been reading Genesis 24 about the quest to find a wife for Isaac, in the last three posts we’ve learned a few really cool things about close encounters with God or the workings of God in our lives. And the great thing about this story is that we get to see all these things,… [Read more…]
January 29, 2012
What do we see when we look at our lives? Really. Good days? Bad days? Amazing things? Difficult things? When we look at the story of our lives, what do we see? I see good decisions, bad decisions; things that excite me, things that embarrass me; things that make me happy, things that make me sad.… [Read more…]
January 28, 2012
My wife and I made a decision when we first got married to tithe a portion of our income. Some days, we did very well. Some days, we didn’t do so well in giving. We always believed, though, that the tithe, 10%, makes a difference in our lives because we choose to trust the Lord.… [Read more…]
January 27, 2012
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a movie about a man who becomes obsessed with an alien encounter. He cannot help himself, he must discover what’s happening. He builds a mud model of the landmark that keeps flashing in his head, he leaves for Wyoming trying to find this large piece of rock, and he… [Read more…]
January 14, 2012
The movie Something’s Gotta Give has a great moment of conversation on the beach between the characters of Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. ”So what’s with the younger girls?” ask Keaton’s character. “Just like to travel light,” Nicholson’s character responds. For a life built on chasing younger women, which to me seems more about self-gratification… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
It’s interesting to me that the folks always seem meet at the well in Genesis. Certainly it’s a life-giving place, so it has powerful symbolism in the story that way. Abraham’s servant finds Rebekah at the well; Jacob finds Rachel at the well. It’s very romantic and well-timed: the right people at the right place. Great… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
“To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God’s interests in other people. ‘That ye loved one another; as I have loved you….’ The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you from within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life,… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
In yesterday’s post, we heard a little of Charles Finney telling of his conversion experience with a wonderful phrase: “liquid waves of love.” It was a very powerful in his life; I think it aptly captures what happened to him. It brought him to repentance; it brought him to wanting to change his life; it brought… [Read more…]
January 8, 2012
Several years ago, a friend of mine brought me a book containing the memoirs of Charles Finney, and I really enjoyed it. For those of you who don’t know much about Charles Finney, he was born in the late part of the eighteen century. By the time he was a young man, he had trained as… [Read more…]
January 7, 2012
When we finished our last post, we talked about missing the worship of God. If we think we can worship once a week or so and get what we really need, we have missed it. If we think one hour on Sunday morning will give us what we need we miss it. Our notion of… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
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