by Jeff | Feb 16, 2022 | Spiritual Reflections
Over the last few weeks, I have been finishing a series of essays, longer and shorter, that will constitute entries for a new dictionary of Christian history under construction. My initial forty essays were submitted last Tuesday, and I heard almost immediately from...
by Jeff | Aug 20, 2021 | Spiritual Reflections
It’s been forty-three years since I graduated from Bible school, and forty years since I began my formal ministry. I was ordained in Madison, Indiana, in the fall of 1981, shortly before my wife and I moved to Manitoba to begin our first ministry. Forty years! It...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2021 | Spiritual Reflections
Ps. 13:1-2 1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Has this ever been the cry of your...
by Jeff | Jul 6, 2021 | Spiritual Reflections, Uncategorized
The story was told by Spurgeon of his visiting a small country church one morning, slipping in the back of the service unnoticed, just wanting to hear the Word for himself. A workingman stood up and delivered a respectable message, after which the great preacher went...
by Jeff | Dec 22, 2020 | Spiritual Reflections
Living in a Facebook world is to live in a world with hundreds of “friends,” many more relationships than people can manage. Rather than thinking of them as friends, it would be better to consider them acquaintances, business associates, clients, relatives,...
by Jeff | Dec 14, 2020 | Spiritual Reflections
It should come as no surprise that to last week’s essay, several friends responded positively on Facebook. Today I continue to explore the biblical idea of friend and my reasons for writing about this topic. When I first became an evangelical, I did so in the Southern...
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