#3 The Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sometimes God chooses to work through unbelievers. He called Cyrus, though he did not know Him, to free the Israelites. I also think He led Simon and Garfunkel, though they ...
# 2 Bring Your Complaints
Meditate on this promise. Though complaining sounds negative, there is a way to do it that is profitable. Most people complain to others, which is hurtful, for a broken spirit ...
#1 Keep Turning to Prayer
Newcomer Lynn Marie expressed what many of us felt as grief for atrocities poured through the pages last week, particularly Chris's terrible story of her beloved Daniel's death: How is ...
Intro to “Dark Clouds Deep Mercy”
Several of you who are beginning this summer study on the lament expressed the concern that the lament seems negative. That's true, but what I want you to know, the ...
Announcing our 2020 Summer Study (Beginning Next Week)
During this time of Covid 19, I've experienced God's presence more profoundly than I have in a long time. Despite all the suffering, that has touched my family as well, ...
Hearing from God During Covid 19
CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL WHO WENT THOUGHTFULLY THROUGH MARK! You've been a blessing to me, and to one another, and I see His promise fulfilled in you: If you abide in ...
The Beginning (#23)
Why did the tiny band of twelve disciples explode over all the Roman world? What news could have turned that world upside-down? As Keller writes in this final chapter, there were dozens ...
The End (#22)
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 ...