Kevin Steyer
Praying for Our Leaders
Paul writes, in response to the problem of false teachers stirring up trouble at Ephesus: “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers,
Kevin Steyer
Praying for Our Leaders
Paul writes, in response to the problem of false teachers stirring up trouble at Ephesus: “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers,
Kevin Steyer
“Three Acres and a Cow”
Although the phrase “three acres and a cow” was not coined by G. K. Chesterton, it was popularized by him in his book, What’s Wrong with the World. It
Sam Hardman
Be Alert and Lean in
Spiritual alertness is necessary at all times, but perhaps especially in times like these. Anxiety is high, we have to work harder at staying connected with people
Kevin Steyer
A Few Good Things
The coronavirus crisis facing the world is an opportunity for Christians to refocus on what is good. Many of us are locked in at home, not going out except in
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Sam Hardman
For Such a Time As This
Why am I here? Why now? Why in this time and place? I could have been born into some peasant family in ancient Gaul. Or not born at all. Why here and now? If God
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Longing
“And they lived happily ever after.” What response do those words conjure in your soul? For the littlest children – and perhaps among the ever-diminishing number of
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You who are both David’s Son and David’s Lord,
how greatly we need Your mercy!
The inclination of our hearts
to twist Your word in devilish self-service –
to exonerate
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“…have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He
Sam Hardman
Left vs. Right – Is Jesus a Moderate?
In politics we have the Right and we have the Left. We have the Conservatives and we have the Liberals. And so often people think that what we
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Someone recently asked me about the short and rather shocking account at the end of 2 Kings 2 (vv. 23-25), so this is an attempt to summarize how I think this passage is to be
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Lifter of Heads
How grim the world often seems, O Lord.
Violence and oppression prosper
in the hand of the wicked:
Brutal murders of Your sons and daughters –
princes and
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This is a prayer of devotion, posted here with the goal of encouraging suffering Christians to let the hard things they are dealing with drive them to Christ.
Suffering and Glory
O
Kevin Steyer
In response to my recent blog post on Ecclesiastes, a friend of mine suggested a connection between the message of Ecclesiastes and the fact that it is followed in the Bible by the Song
Sam Hardman
The Barren Fig Tree – A Prayer
O Lord of the harvest,
You have planted us in your garden
not to be barren,
but to bear much fruit.
Yet we resist your cultivation.
We see the
Kevin Steyer
Over the past few months, our Wednesday evening Bible studies have been in the book of Ecclesiastes. It is a book with many recognizable phrases. Among these are: “all is vanity,”
Sam Hardman
I’ve written in a prior post that what we call the “Triumphal Entry” of Jesus into Jerusalem is better thought of as a provocation to the powers of darkness to launch the onslaught
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Have you ever asked yourself the question, “Why does Jesus enter Jerusalem for the final time during his earthly ministry in the way that he does – what Christians call ‘The
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As more and more Millennials walk away from the Christian faith they once claimed to hold, it’s tempting for Baby Boomer Evangelicals like me to decry this state of affairs and to
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Recently an interesting letter to the editor appeared in a Kentucky newspaper called the Lexington Herald-Leader. In it the writer, speaking of Christians, said in part that “these