Quick predictions…
10 comments February 3rd, 2007
On the flipside…
I was asked in my New Testament Survey class this past week what the negative connotations were to globalization as it moves into the next phase at incredible speeds. I tremble as I consider the implications and the manner in which they serve as a stunning indicator of the times in which we live.
6 comments February 2nd, 2007
Ladies and gentleman, we give you: Wordcast…
Scott Sterling, famed descendant of the Dumfries Sterlings, had an ephiphany that just might change the internet forever. Or, at least, my internet vocabulary. In a historic piece of commenting brilliance, Scott solved my lifelong dilemma with the word that strangely combines the words “web” and “log”. Why nobody has asked up to now why one would combine ANY word with the word “log” is a mystery to me. I mean really, let’s try it for a moment:
33 comments February 1st, 2007
Two necessary things…
1. I want to add a little sub-point to yesterday’s two posts. The most powerful medium in history is the written word, hands down. Know any good music from the 17th century? Me neither. (I know that some of the greatest music ever came out of this era – classical hymns with great power – but few can name them off the top of their head) I can find you some great books from that era, though. John Milton and John Bunyan were two giants of English literature as well as fervent Puritans. Paul the apostle helped lead the greatest revival of the 1st century in Ephesus, of which we would have no clue unless Luke wrote about it. The most powerful preaching in history would be completely unknown to us if not transcribed and recorded in books.
25 comments January 31st, 2007
Change the earth…
I just decided to just go for it today. If I’m posting too much for you, prioritize the last entry on barrenness and come back to this one later. I’ve decided to be unashamedly grandiose today, and call you to it as well.
36 comments January 30th, 2007
Dangerous responses to barrenness in prayer…
I want to share some thoughts this morning on a subject I talked about at the leadership conference this past weekend. These ideas are in the notes and I expand on them in the messages we’ll be posting tomorrow, but I want to discuss them here as well. I shared these with those who lead prayer ministries because it is critical that true shepherds after God’s heart arise in these last days to help believers navigate the deadly pitfalls of barrenness of heart in the place of prayer. We are, by nature, a prayerless people. The difficulties of the reach of prayer when we lack the internal capacity and strength in our spirit man to engage with God are often painful to encounter. Good men turn away from the place of prayer on a daily basis because they come into a surprising and frustrating boredom.
15 comments January 30th, 2007
Back from Atlanta…
Back from a great weekend with Billy Humphrey, director of IHOP-Atlanta, and Kirk Bennett, director of the Zadok House of Prayer as well as a bunch of cool ZHOP folks that helped serve at the conference the three of us led for those who are involved in leading (or thinking about leading) houses of prayer from around the nation.
4 comments January 29th, 2007
Starting a house of prayer - let me talk you out of that if I can…
My wife and I are headed for Atlanta tomorrow, where I am speaking at the House of Prayer Leadership Summit.
I am, by nature of both the grace of God on my life as well as my function for this season of my life, an aggressive student of the dynamics of 24/7 prayer and the people that participate in it. The idiosyncrasies of this unique people, these “Annas” and those who gather to serve with them, and the culture that forms around all of them have been an ongoing fascination for me. Understanding these dynamics helps me serve the elements of our culture that are strategic and necessary while providing leadership to help stem the tide of the unnecessary elements.
As Greg said in the comments section elsewhere in this little journal, we lead a strange life here.
Like anything else, when you become an aggressive student of something you often then are given the opportunity to pass on what is you’ve learned and observed over the years. Because I’m young, inexperienced, and often overzealous, I rarely take the route of “sage” and instead choose the much more natural role of “loud preacher”. Still only 33 years old, I’m too dumb at this stage of my life to know better. So this weekend I’ll probably be shouting some of my insights into a microphone with way more passion than the subject matter demands, as is my way. You can get the CD later, if you don’t believe me.
31 comments January 25th, 2007
A sign of the apocalypse so clear you would need a burlap sack over your head to miss it…
On that note, see you when I get back from Atlanta.
David
4 comments January 25th, 2007
This is what Tuesday looks like…
7:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Head to the prayer room, get situated, sneak a coffee in somewhere. Work on new notes for New Testament Survey, mix in a little of the 10 AM All-Staff prayer meeting while I’m at it.
31 comments January 23rd, 2007
