The End (#23)
My daughter Sally was reading "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" to her young daughters. They realized someone was going to have to die to set Edmund free from ...
A Different Kind of Revolution (#21)
My friend Sylvia (yes, the same friend as last week!) and her husband always go to the National Prayer Breakfast, eager to see how the Lord will show up, for ...
THE CUP: He drank it all. (#20)
Have you ever thought these kind of thoughts? I deserve this sorrow -- I fail the Lord so much. The Lord cannot still love me, for I keep doing the thing I ...
The Feast (#19)
To share a meal with someone was to have a real relationship with them. (Tim Keller) Jesus showed the disciples, through the Last Supper, that they were family, bound by ...
Coming In The Clouds (#18)
How do I even dare to exposit such a holy and mysterious passage as Mark 13? Only with earnest prayer, study, and caution. I will share what is clear ...
Heart Transplant Needed (#17)
Our stony heart idols cannot be removed, they can only be replaced by the One who turns a heart of stone into a heart of flesh. It is only when ...
Easter in a time of Covid 19 (#16)
Last week I prayed with women in Manhatten, women to whom our own Laura and I ministered last fall. They are in the center of the pandemic and are praying ...
The Ransom (#15) Holy Week, 2020
It's the beginning of Holy Week. How wonderful that it "just happened" that this week's lesson is "The Ransom." What was Jesus main purpose for coming? Is that linked to ...
Is God Behind Covid 19? (#14)
Keller opens this chapter in the King's Cross with the stark fact that Christianity moves away from wealth. How true that has been in America. In this time of Covid ...
Unless You Become Like A Child (#13)
Jesus tells us that unless we become like a little child, we won't enter the kingdom of heaven! In a positive way, He says the same with the ...
Longest 18 Inches (#12)
It has been said that the longest 18 inches is between the head and the heart. It is one thing to believe about Jesus in your head, it is quite ...
LOSING YOUR LIFE TO FIND IT (#11)
We are at a pivotal point in Mark. Keller calls it "The Turn." The disciples have been following Jesus, believing He had come to rescue them out of all ...
He Keeps On Helping Us See (#10)
Our symbol this week is blindness and how He keeps healing it. We will see how faith leads to seeing and how a lack of faith leads to blindness. We ...
The Heart, The Heart, The Heart (#9)
When speaking at a seminar, I stained my white suit jacket with a permanent red marker, feeling much like the woman in this picture. Yes, it was a costly, humbling, ...
Hearts of Stone (#8)
The title I originally wanted for my book, Idol Lies, was The Stonecutter, based on this verse from Ezekiel: I believe this act of God turning our heart of stone into a ...