Truth & Love Blog
The Future of Biblical Counseling: Dreaming a Dozen Dreams, Part II
The Future of Biblical Counseling:Dreaming a Dozen Dreams, Part IINote: Please read my April 16, 2008 blog for Part I of this post.Dream Number Four: Biblical Counseling Will Be PositiveThe modern history of biblical counseling has all too often become enmeshed with...
The Future of Biblical Counseling: Dreaming a Dozen Dreams, Part 1
The Future of Biblical Counseling: Dreaming a Dozen Dreams, Part 1As I speak around the country on biblical counseling and spiritual formation, I’m frequently asked the question. “When you say ‘biblical counseling,’ you don’t mean ___________ do you?” Various people...
American Idol Shouts to the Lord . . . Without Jesus . . .
American Idol Shouts to the Lord . . . Without Jesus . . .Last night the most viewed TV show in America, American Idol, hosted its second annual "Idol Gives Back" in hopes of raising over 100 million dollars for world-wide charities. The shocker? The show's grand...
Ammas: Spiritual Mothers
Ammas: Spiritual MothersAdmittedly, hearing the word “Amma” can be puzzling. We’re more familiar with the word “Abba” from Romans 8:15 where we learn that through the Spirit of sonship we cry, “Abba, Father.” “Amma” comes from the same cultural context. Both Abba and...
The VineLine 1:1
RPM Ministries: The VineLineDear Friends,Welcome to the first “edition” of The VineLine: the e-newsletter of RPM Ministries.The VineLine is not your normal ministry mailer that says, “Pray for me and send me money!” It’s not wrong to ask for prayer and financial...
A Spiritual Sister to a Church Father
A Spiritual Sister to a Church FatherMuch of our knowledge of Olympias comes from an anonymous fifth-century document composed by someone who knew her well (The Life of Olympias) and from the Church father John Chrysostom, who poured out his heart to her in seventeen...
An Amazing Sister in an Amazing Family
An Amazing Sister in an Amazing FamilyMacrina the Younger (327-379 AD) came from one of the most amazing families in all of Church history. Her paternal grandmother was Macrina the Elder, her mother was Emmelia, and her brothers were Peter, Basil and Gregory of Nyssa....
A Spiritual Friend to Her Physical Family: Gorgonia
Spiritual Friend to Her Physical Family: GorgoniaNonna and her husband Gregory the Elder were the parents of Gregory of Nazianzus and Gorgonia (325-375 AD). Gorgonia and her husband Alypius lived in Iconium where they raised two sons who became bishops and three godly...
To Glorify God and Comfort the Saints
To Glorify God and to Comfort the Saints*A review of Anthony J. Carter, “On Being Black and Reformed: A New Perspective on the African American Christian Experience”With one succinct sentence, Anthony Carter integrates historical Reformation theology and historical...
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be BloodNominated for eight academy awards, “There Will Be Blood” plays like a modern-day version of Genesis 4. Though many Christians may resist seeing it, and many who do may wish they hadn’t, “Blood” is replete with themes of biblical proportions. It is...
