“Bring your heart with its profoundest emptiness, its most startling discovery of sin, its lowest frame, its deepest sorrow, and sink it into the depths of the Saviour’s love… Christ’s love touching your hard heart, will dissolve it; touching your cold heart, will warm it; touching your sinful heart, will purify it; touching your sorrowful …
I believe the Gospel is good news for this life and the next. Too many times it gets reduced to just one of those options, and in doing so either the truth or the beauty of the Gospel is compromised. Enjoy this clear and convicting snippet of wisdom: “God created both soul and body, and …
This is an excerpt from a post that my beautiful wife wrote on her new blog about a week ago. It honestly made me cry when I read it the first time. She just amazes me beyond my minds ability to comprehend it, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she will rub off on …
Lately I’ve been thinking about what God has been teaching me in the changes of the past year. One of the prevalent and painstaking lessons I have been learning is undoubtedly humility. And one of the clearest avenues that these lessons have come through is by my so called “career” since graduating college. When I …
I used to be a really big Left Behind fan. I don’t care what you say about them, or about how off Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’ theology is…they are just good fiction. Those books define the word “page-turner”. However, during the past few years at Anderson, I learned a lot that changed my views …
This has always been one of my favorites… How deep the Father’s love for us, how vast beyond all measure that he should give his only Son to make a wretch his treasure. How great the pain of searing loss. The Father turns his face away as wounds which mar the Chosen One bring many …
I wrote this a while back. Its kind of long for a blog, but I decided to post it just in case… I spent this past weekend in an outrageously enormous log cabin on the side of a mountain in Gatlinburg, TN. You are probably jealous, as well you should be. But this was not …
You really just have to check this video out.
I’d say that just about sums up the past month or so of my life. God has humbled me and broken me in many ways, and for that I am thankful. I have had more free time in the past month than I’ve had in a long, long time and I have been embarrassingly undisciplined …
I have a lot of heroes. One of them is my wife. Lots of them are in my family. I work with many of them at Midtown. But I need to tell you about one of them tonight, and his name is Allen Tipping. When I was first introduced to Midtown I heard about this …