[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Revelation is God himself speaking loudly and clearly about who he is and how he views the world; it is our responsibility to listen clearly. He speaks because he wants to be known. Imagine that–God wants to be known! […]
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] “When I was young, I said to God, God, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, God, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,
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On Sunday morning, September 16, 2001, people crowded our church, as most other churches, like we only see at a holiday like Christmas or Easter. This non-holiday, precipitated by the unholy events of September 11, was a scurrying to God. The mood was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. People were subdued and sober. They spoke
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[A sermon shared with Elmbrook Church the Sunday after 9/11/2001, based on what Psalm 25 says about treachery.] FACING TREACHERY A message given at Elmbrook Church, September 16, 2001 Mel Lawrenz, Senior Pastor We have been through a harrowing week. It is good that we are here to worship today. Every evening since Tuesday hundreds
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Providence is true because of God’s character. It is his nature that defines his relationship with everything that he made. The piece of your faith that says God is good lines up with the piece that says that life
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Here’s a word from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount that we would do well to ponder within the first waking hour of every day: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When I finished college I took a third-shift job working as a nursing assistant in a nursing home. My wife, who was training as a social worker, suggested that one of the best ways I could prepare to be
Here are some activities and resources being offered through Elmbrook Church here in Brookfield, Wisconsin in the weeks to come. Take a look and see what might be of interest to you. Many great resources!
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] So there is one person, with two aspects, but with many functions. Here is where we get a refined view of who we really are. The rich biblical vocabulary about human nature describes the dynamics of our inner life
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] If someone were to ask you, “Who are you, really?” a complete answer would have to include something about the invisible you, the part within and apart from the body. One of the truest things you can say about
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Why do bad things happen to innocent people? Is there any purpose in it all? Here is where the issue stings. If I have to suffer, is it all for nothing? Must I pay such a high price for
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[I have given copies of this to many leaders, and have had leadership groups listen to the audio in groups. This is a seminal address. Every Christian leader should read this!] John Stott’s Final Public Address ‘The model – becoming more like Christ.’ Sermon delivered at the Keswick Convention July 17th 2007. I remember very
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[Rev. John R. W. Stott, one of the greatest Bible teachers, pastors, and evangelical statesmen of all time, passed away this morning. Here are some reflections I had written a few weeks back…] One day New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a piece called “Who Is John Stott?” Brooks was bemoaning the fact that
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Suffering is often the direct result of the sinful things humans do to each other. The first murder occurred just four chapters into the Bible. What’s worse is that it was a brother killing his own brother. Why did
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When I visited Esther in her tin shed in a Nairobi slum, I found myself talking to the person closest to Job in the Old Testament that I’d ever met. I didn’t know at that moment that she was
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