The God Question
There are only so many different views on the question of God. Do you know what you believe?
What Great Idea Matters to You?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -Anonymous Try this: close your eyes, and for the next thirty seconds do not think about a pink elephant. Remember, you are not to think of a pink elephant. Ready, set, go. How far did you make it? And what does that tell
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God Was Never Alone
Once we did a survey in our church and one of the questions was: “Do you often feel lonely and unnoticed?” A full 75% of the respondents said no, which made me glad for those who had connected with other people. But my heart went out to the 25% who said yes. Loneliness is an
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Discovery Exceeds Our Expectations
Everyone wants to discover something new and fresh. Discovery is intriguing and invigorating. Discovery reminds us that our lives are not over yet, that there is more to life than what we can see right now, and that all of us have yet-undiscovered potential. In 1804 an expedition commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson set out
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God’s Attributes: He Is True
If God were great but not good, he would manipulate, deceive, and just plain lie. But because he is good, he is true and he is truthful. When we say that God is true, it is so much more than saying he is accurate (like a bank statement being true or a newspaper report being
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God’s Attributes: He Is Love
The Scottish theologian P. T. Forsyth believed that there are really two overarching attributes of God: holiness and love. Put the pieces together (because God is a whole and complete reality), and you can speak of the “holy love” of God. His holiness is our assurance that he is different from the defilements of this
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Understand Influence
Here is the first of a series we’re calling “Stories of Influence.” While not an example of “spiritual influence,”Albert Einstein’s work helps us understand the concept.
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Bonhoeffer – The Power of Truth
Dietrich Bonhoeffer showed remarkable faith and courage in standing against the power of Hitler’s Third Reich. This short video in the series “Stories of Influence” is part of “The Influence Project” (coming soon).
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Starting the New Year Right
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New.] In many doorways of the Roman Empire there was a depiction of a god with two faces pointing in opposite directions. Janus was the god of transitions. He looked ahead and he looked behind–to the past and the future. He was a kind of
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Bible Reading Plan
I’m going to do the Bible in 90 Days reading plan starting in January. These accelerated reading plans can work out well. You read 12 pages a day. Here is a PDF of the schedule in case you’re interested. And, if you like audio, you can get the Bible in 90 Days audio program in
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A God-Filled Life
Sign up today for my weekly article “The Brook Letter,” and you can download a free E-booklet called “Living a God-Filled Life.” Excerpt: When I’m honest I admit that there are so many other competing desires, so many other internal voices, that this longing is easily compromised by my own self-centeredness and by the clamor
The Attributes of God: He is Righteous
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] God is right in everything he is and does. His goodness, in other words, is the shape of the way he relates to others. There is nothing God has ever done that is not right and nothing he will
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Thanksgiving: Let it Sink In
Sarah Hale, a magazine editor, petitioned for a national day of thanksgiving for fifteen years. In 1863 she got her wish in the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 made by President Abraham Lincoln. Here is the remarkable text, worth three minutes of our time to read, and a day to digest…
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God’s Attributes: He is Holy
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Having looked at attributes of God’s greatness in recent weeks (see archive), we now turn to attributes of God’s goodness. First, his holiness. “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty. The whole earth is full of his glory.” Those
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Christmas Joy
I really enjoy talking to people in the weeks leading up to Christmas about things like joy, peace, Immanuel, shepherd, Magi, Mary, star, flesh, virgin, counselor, and many other meanings of the coming of Christ. We’re releasing the 25-day devotional for the days of December called Christmas Joy in two forms: 1. Get daily readings