Romans 8:5–13: The Christian’s Life

February 13, 2011.Reading time 10 minutes.

“For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace”

Judges 1–6: Gideon & Battles

February 8, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Tuesday But the LORD said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.” Judges 6:23 – In The God Who Is There, Francis Schaeffer issued a call to arms for my generation with this quote: “If I profess with the loudest voice […]

Romans 11–12: God’s Mercy & Our Response

February 6, 2011.Reading time 6 minutes.

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

Job 7–8: Sovereign & Good

January 27, 2011.Reading time 16 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 4: Thursday “Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?” Job 7:20b In today’s Bible reading of Job 7–8, Job finishes his rejoinder to Eliphaz in chapter 7, and Bildad lectures Job in chapter 8. Chapter 7 opens with Job’s […]

Romans 7–8: Law & Grace

January 23, 2011.Reading time 9 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 4: Sunday – But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. Romans 7:6 – Today’s Bible reading is Romans 7–8. If you’re […]

Romans 3–4: Righteousness & Faith

January 9, 2011.Reading time 8 minutes.

We either stand before God as a guilty rebel under His judgment, or through faith in Christ, we stand clean before Him in joy and wonder.

Gratitude

November 28, 2010.Reading time 14 minutes.

Giving thanks frequently receives short shrift when we talk about it, because we tend to discuss it either superficially when we are at ease in our circumstances, or else in denial of the pain of difficulties. We give moralizing lectures about it or sometimes present the idea of giving thanks to God as a sort […]

Blessings

October 16, 2010.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’m thankful for many things—my husband, my children and for various family and friends who are part of my life. I am grateful for strangers I have met who have encouraged me. Over the past three years my family has been through difficult times, as you may have guessed from some of my writings. We’ve […]

Pursuits

September 21, 2010.Reading time 6 minutes.

In True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer writes: “Intellectual pursuits can be to the glory of God. But today much intellectual pursuit is not a pursuit of truth, or a search for truth, but a game—and the best game one can play…Theology today is often a superior game, just like the game of general intellectual thinking….If I […]

“The Mark of a Christian”

July 1, 2010.Reading time 11 minutes.

Several months after I became a Christian I attended a fall conference for college students from several universities within the state. I wasn’t doing very well that weekend, and Saturday evening when I went to my bunk I found a small packet on my pillow.

Eyewitnesses

June 13, 2010.Reading time 13 minutes.

Despite the denial of absolute truth by postmodernism, our own eyes bear witness to the reality that truth is truth for all because to all the universe gives evidence of God. In the New Testament we have the record of other eyewitnesses—eyewitnesses to the resurrected Christ. What was from the beginning, what we have heard, […]