Shifting Gears
“ I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.” Phm. 1:6...
View ArticleSame Same But Different
Same classroom. Same courses. Same teacher. But some new students – and God’s new mercies every morning. We began classes on November 12th with a week of Inductive Bible Study...
View ArticleA Tale of Northern Thailand
Every night before bed. Every single night – my girls and I read a story. The current set of stories we are going through is a very large volume of...
View ArticleReading Dead Theologians Thursday
Thomas Chalmers is the nineteenth-century Scottish preacher and academic with a face that only a mother could love. But he preached sermons that would be difficult not to love. In...
View ArticleRead Dead Theologians Thursday: William Perkins
This week I’ve been teaching two young ladies at the Bible school how to prophecy. I’m pretty sure that sounds terribly presumptuous to my Charismatic friends, and terribly nutty to...
View ArticleChristmas in Thailand
Christmas in rural Thailand is what you make of it. No pretty trees in living rooms, no lights on houses, no Christmas music in shops. No carolers. No snow. No...
View ArticleNorthern Thai Folk Tales–Part 3
A recent post by a Chinese minister about missionaries to his country got me thinking about missionaries to my host country. He gives four points of how the typical missionary...
View ArticleWhat is Natural?
The following is part of a translation project I’ve been working on while my students are on their missions trip. It’s kind of a funny story, but like the folk-tales...
View ArticleBook Review: The Mystery of the Gospel
Gospel-centered worship. Gospel-centered preaching. Gospel-centered parenting. Gospel-centered discipling. “Gospel-centered” is the current buzzword in the ministry world. This is exciting to see,...
View ArticleBonhoeffer on Bible Reading
On reading large portions of scripture together as a family, Bonhoeffer anticipates some objection: “Not only the young Christian, but also the adult Christian will complain that the scripture reading...
View ArticleDeep Discounts…For a Price
All out of coffee. What can be done? The obvious solution might be to pick some up next time I go to town. But I forgot that day. And the...
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Book Review: The Mystery of The Gospel
Gospel-centered worship. Gospel-centered preaching. Gospel-centered parenting. Gospel-centered discipling. “Gospel-centered” is a bit of a buzzword in the ministry world. This is exciting to see,...
View ArticleBonhoeffer on Bible Reading
On reading large portions of scripture together as a family, Bonhoeffer anticipates some objection: “Not only the young Christian, but also the adult Christian will complain that the scripture reading...
View ArticleDeep Discounts…For A Price
All out of coffee. What can be done? The obvious solution might be to pick some up next time I go to town. But I forgot that day. And the next. And the next. Right about now, some of you are...
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