Every day in which I do not delight in Jesus is a waste–worse, it is a scandal, a tragedy, a perversion of God’s beautiful design for life. When I don’t delight in Jesus my life is distorted, I am in danger and vulnerable to temptation and confusion. I’m like a fish on the bank in […]
A Week on Lincoln Lake
This morning I am writing in a lodge overlooking a large quiet lake about an hour northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jim Lockwood is the director here. Tom Shaw is the director of operations. Micah Steiner is the director of ministries. Joel Schmuland is the program director. Forty-eight years ago I spent a week here […]
Thinking Clearly About Grace
Here is an excerpt from my little .99 e-book Sacred Stories and Strong Families. One of the things that makes raising sons and daughters in our age so dangerous and so difficult is that we live in a time of apostasy in our nation. The drift from God is so dangerous it is like a […]
The Call of the Eternal
[photo taken by Chuk Pierpont at Duck Point on Wolf Lake near Watersmeet, Michigan] Does the “call of the eternal” ring clearly in your soul? J. H. Jowett’s book The Preacher, His Life and Work is the text of his 1912 Yale Lectures on Preaching. They are over 100 years old but I have read […]
Trapped
A classic re-post from 2008 This morning we were driving through Toledo during the morning rush hour. Suddenly the traffic on the interstate came to a complete stop. We expected construction or an accident but the problem was that somehow a dog had wandered across five lanes of traffic and a busy merging lane. He […]
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