Picture by Patrick Murphy: http://inspiredsketch.blogspot.com/ An excerpt from my booklet entitled, “Jeremiah: Fire Shut up in My Bones.” *** “I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone…I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away. I looked,…
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Something New (Sort of )
I’m happy to announce something new at The Voice of One. Well, sort of new, anyway. On the far left of the blog are links to booklets I have written. That isn’t new. What is new is that they are now in PDF format. Each booklet contains two links: one for reading on your computer,…
Interview with Bryan Halferty about “The Unitive”
Bryan Halferty is a guy I’ve known for…about 13 years. During that time I’ve watched him evolve from a wet-behind-the-ears college kid to a family-man. He’s also a minister with a deep desire to see the church and the world experience Jesus as fully as possible. One avenue through which Bryan connects with people is…
Who Is When…?
Recently, a friend sent me a link to a video called, “An Evening of Eschatology.” (As the video points out, “eschatology” is just a $2.00 word for “last things” or the end of all things). In the video, John Piper moderates a discussion between Jim Hamilton, Sam Storms, and Doug Wilson, each of whom represents…
Come to the Tree. Pray to Die.
Who can forget Elijah’s famous showdown with the prophets of Baal? This was probably the OK Corral of the Old Testament. Elijah went toe to toe with hundreds of false prophets and publicly humiliated them. They spent all day crying out and cutting themselves without so much as a peep from their god. One short…
A Dragon in Lamb’s Clothing
The Pharisees…. What was eating those guys? Rewind to the period between the Old and New Testaments—Alexander the Great brings many nations, including Israel, under Greek rule. His vision was to make all peoples culturally Greek. He was so successful that Greek culture persisted even after the rise of the Roman empire. In the time…
Nothing Less than Him
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Jesus is God’s complete self-expression or Word. The Word is God, just as my word is me and not something other than me. Jesus said it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth…
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