Gospel Prism

Here is an interview with Chris Tomlin. It’s not too in-depth with relatively short answers. But I really liked this one question and answer:
Do you think about how we worship with our bodies? Some raise their hands, some dance, some stand still, and so on.
Tomlin: It has a lot to do with our [...]

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“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” (Matthew 10:16)
A baby’s body is a paradox. At six months, a strange morphing takes place. While the baby’s trunk and legs grow at a stable pace, the head outdistances its body [...]

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How terrible is sin? John MacArthur writes:
What is sin like? And I told you sin is defiling; that is to say, it is a disposition of the heart that corrupts everything we think, everything we say, everything we do. So that we have to say: “The heart is deceitful above all things, desperately [...]

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In reading this age old story, I am struck by a few thoughts on David and Bathsheba, observations that I hope will be unfolded some time later in a sermon.
1. David Succeeds and Sin Does Too
It seems while David was hanging out at home, Joab’s army was doing pretty well, [...]

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I live in a town called Pleasanton. In certain ways, the town is truly ‘pleasant.’ It has places like this, a beautiful trail overlooking the whole town. It has a quaint downtown with ‘cute shops.’ It has a mall with many cool stores. It also has mutli-million dollar homes, cookie-cutter [...]

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I took a prayer hike this morning, and as I did, I noticed that this tree had fallen. I couldn’t help think of that philosophical question, “If a tree falls in the forest, and there is nobody to hear it, does it make a sound?� Many would say that if a person is [...]

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The story of David’s defeat of the Amalekites in 1 Samuel 30 is prototypical of David’s commitment and passion to God. It is every reason why David is a man after God’s own heart. David sets out with 600 men to face what is probably a much greater force. Two hundred of [...]

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When Saul went to the witch of Endor and talked to Samuel in the apparition, he was told that he would lose his kingdom and die the next day. Here was his response to the vision:
Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And [...]

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When I served at a church in Chicago, there was a set of parents who believed that to be good parents meant allowing “kids to be kids.� That is, they never disciplined their child no matter what he did. And so he wreaked havoc wherever he went. As frustrated as our church [...]

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Now when the Chaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaoh’s army, 12Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people. 13When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized [...]

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