New Blog Announcement

So as to avoid confusion I have launched a new blog which will deal specifically with the non-Devotional matters. It is called Ekklesia A.D.
http://ekklesiaad.wordpress.com

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Absurd Living

I read a portion today from a work of Henri Nouwen called Spiritual Direction that struck my fancy since I have written on this:
Being formed in God’s likeness involves the struggle to move from absurd living to obedient listening. The word absurd contains the word surdus, which means “deaf”. Absurd living is a way of [...]

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Pope Benedict approves structure for admitting large groups of Anglicans into Catholic Church

Vatican City, Oct 20, 2009 / 05:11 am (CNA).- In a Vatican press conference today, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced that an Apostolic Constitution has been prepared in response to “many requests” from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful wanting to enter into full communion with [...]

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The Living Church – Part 2

Every good book describing a healthy church covers at least Acts 2:42-47 and this one is no different.
Here in Chapter 1 John Stott covers what he calls the essential marks of a living church hence the title Essentials.
On the outset he describes a 3 – fold commitment.

We are committed to the church
We are committed to [...]

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The Living Church – Part 1

For my birthday I received a gift card to a local Christian Bookstore so I went and picked out a few books. The Living Church: Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor by John Stott (IVP, 2007) seemed like a good buy.
I respect John Stott as a doctrinally sound thinker enough to want to hear (read) what [...]

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Codex-Sinaiticus Online

I saw this on the news this morning – the oldest known compiled Bible over 1600 years old. For you scholarly types this is a pretty cool website with the image of the text with translation.
The key reminder is to remember that there are older fragments and manuscripts that well pre-date the Codex-Sinaiticus. The liberal [...]

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Sheep Are Led by A.W. Tozer

I read this devotional today and thought I would post it here. It is a good thought to step into 2009.

OH COME, LET US worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. [...]

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Which Jesus?

The truth of God’s Word is being lost in a labyrinth of new spirituality, pseudo spirituality and inter spirituality. I shouldn’t say lost God’s Word because it is still there, but the passion and relevancy it once held in the life of the church is becoming lost.
Matthew 24:4-5
And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take [...]

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Biblical Contemplation

There is a lot of confusion about Biblical Contemplation. Some are tossing the baby out with the bath water.
This teaching, of mine, is from taken from Psalm 119:9-16 and was given on a Sunday morning in early 2007 after I learned about a movement known as the Emergent Church and the concern we were heading [...]

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The Church of Irresistable Influence – Part 2

Continuing in part one of the book, Lewis furthers his assessment that church leaders are often overwhelmed at the size of this chasm detailed in the previous post. Because of that some pastors and lay leaders will in a sense see the task as impossible and running back to what Lewis calls ‘fallback methodology” as [...]

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