Results tagged “love”
Like Love (02/23/09 - 42 Comments)
I've been to my share of conferences in the past few years and quite a few of these have been geared toward pastors. There's a phenomenon I've noticed at the beginning of these events. In many cases these conferences are an opportunity for old friends to reconnect. Many times pastors have been attending the same conference year after year and have met new friends there or have reconnected with old friends from their college or...
Like News from a Far Country (02/01/09 - 9 Comments)
This morning I stumbled across the first few pages of Alexander Strauch's Leading with Love. He begins this book by telling a story from the life of Dwight L. Moody. He tells of a time that the evangelist Henry Moorhouse was asked to preach at Moody's church every night for a week. To everyone's surprise, Moorhouse preached seven consecutive sermons on John 3:16, preaching on God's love from Genesis to Revelation. Moody's son recorded the...
How is the Christian to Love God? (09/19/08 - 30 Comments)
There is a profound truth that every Christian must face: the Bible is an inexhaustible treasure. Talk to a pastor who has spent a lifetime reading, studying and explaining the Bible and he will tell you, I'm sure, that the more he comes to understand, the more he realizes he does not understand. I have heard John Piper compare this to climbing a mountain. As he scales a sheer cliff and comes to the top...
Love or Die (09/12/08 - 10 Comments)
It is a strange gig, being a book reviewer. There are times when I spend weeks or months in anticipation of a new book only to find it a great disappointment. And then there are times when a book just shows up--a book I didn't even know existed--and it takes my breath away. Such was the case with Love or Die by Alexander Strauch. While the book is large in dimensions (8.8 x 5.9, so...