Truth & Love Blog
How I Write Versus How I Live
I’ve been thinking lately how difficult it is to live what I write.
Tangled…Untangled
Until this weekend, I was likely one of the final few people who had yet to watch Tangled, the Disney movie about Rapunzel. Watching it, I was struck by how it, like so many movies, fables, and fairy tales communicate the same message: we are blinded to our real identity.
The Biblical Counseling Coalition Reviews God’s Healing for Life’s Losses
Dr. Bob Kellemen has written an excellent book to guide us biblically and relationally through this difficult (and often repetitive) season of life.
Hope Positive: Christopher Yuan’s Testimony
The testimony of Christopher Yuan and his parents about God as the Hound of Heaven. The story is told in more detail in Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God. A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope.
Five to Live By
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
Don’t Make Your Pastor a Statistic
Yesterday at the 9Marks blog Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile shared some alarming statistics about pastors.
Back to the Future: At 21 and at 51
“What advice, counsel, and words of wisdom might I share with myself if I could go ‘back to the future’? What do I know at age 51 about life that I didn’t know at age 21, but wish I had?”
re-Focus: 2011 Moody Bible Pastors’ Conference
Tuesday through Thursday, May 24-26, I will be speaking five times at the Moody Bible Pastors’ Conference. This year’s theme is re-Focus.
The Grace Wife
On May 23, 1981, at Berean Baptist Church in Richmond, VA, Pastor Ralph Hubble pronounced Bob Kellemen and Shirley Vernon “husband and wife.”
Trying to Paint Over Bad Paint: The Foolish Futility of Self-Sufficiency
Ever since Adam and Eve, we have tried to paint over bad paint. We have tried to cover over our sins.
