As the father of a five-year old boy, I’ve noticed an interesting reaction my son will sometimes give to my decisions on when and how to discipline one of his sisters.
It starts with crinkled eyebrows and a stern look. After staring at me like this for a few moments he will say my name quizzically.
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When Jesus began his ministry the people marveled at the authority with which he spoke. “He is not like the scribes,” they said, for he didn’t just regurgitate Scripture like the Bible teachers of his day. Rather he spoke in a way that betrayed his intimacy with God as one who had “seen and heard” the very truth he was teaching.
Yet Jesus had no seminary degree, no formal Rabbinic training. This is what the Pharisees could not understand:
How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied? (John 7:15) Continue Reading…
Paul compares the Christian life to a race, and he exhorts every runner to be in it to win it.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it (1 Corinthians 9:24).
In other words, run as if there is only one who will win the crown, and that one is going to be you. Continue Reading…
I’d like to kick off this series by suggesting there is more to the cross of Christ than any of us know.
Countless people died on Roman crosses. Every life mattered to God, but none carried the significance of Jesus’ work.
That’s right, the cross of Christ was a work. Not just a death but a work. God was in Christ doing some pretty remarkable things through the sacrifice of His Son. Continue Reading…
A few updates this morning:
First, back in March I told you about a trip I’ve been invited to go on to visit some orphans in China. The date for this trip has been changed to October 10-20 to provide additional time for fundraising and to recruit more team members. If you would like to help with travel expenses or are interested in going yourself, check out my original post with the relevant links and information. Continue Reading…
Every month, scores of new books flood the shelves at Christian bookstores. I should know, because I work at one. Sadly, not all of those books are worth reading. In fact, you will only find most really good Christian literature on the out-of-print list, long removed from the consciousness of mainstream Christian readers.
Every now and then, though, there comes a blip across the radar of Christian literature registered by some title that is both new and good. Continue Reading…
Four days ago I wrote a post about my decision to switch the email subscription service for this blog from Feedburner to Mailchimp. I said if my calculations were correct you would get two separate notifications, one from each service, and that I needed you to unsubscribe from the old provider.
Apparently my calculations were incorrect and you only got one email, the same one you’ve gotten with every new post up to this point.
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Do I have your attention? Good, because I need a favor. 
I recently switched to a new subscription service for In Search of the City. The end of Google Reader is upon us and word on the street is that Feedburner, Google’s RSS and email subscriber service which I have been accustomed to using on this blog, may end up going away, too. Continue Reading…
Amid turmoil and strife in the Corinthian church in A.D. 55 Paul wrote to remind the brothers and sisters of the good news he originally proclaimed to them.
“You have taken your stand in this gospel,” he told them, “and by it you are being saved, as long as you hold fast to the word I preached to you” (1 Corinthians 15:2). Continue Reading…
It’s been quiet on the blog for the past week or so. This is because my family has been in the process of moving, a whirlwind of an adventure when you have three little kids and too much stuff. But we are beginning to get settled in our new place, so today I’m breaking radio silence.
In the last post I introduced a new series on the cross. The first article is in queue and should be ready in the next couple days, so bear with me; I assure you it will be worth it. Continue Reading…
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