Y’all know Brandon Hawkes. He’s one of our favorites. He’s an amazing disc golfer, and his sincerity is palpable. Brandon recently asked me some questions about ECPC’s evangelism training program. In the course of our conversation, Brandon made the following observation, “It seems that many people are shouldering an unnecessary sense of personal deficiency and […]
2/3/2021 (one day after Groundhog’s Day) Dear David, One of our favorite movies is “Groundhog Day,” so you can imagine how excited we are to write this letter to you after having celebrated The Marvelous Marmota Monax Jubilee just yesterday! We are also big fans of Stephen King, and we just finished reading “The Green […]
My buddy Tim says, “A binding promise is crucial for creating deep and lasing trust and zeal.” Tim told me about an article by a guy named Lewis B. Smedes, entilted “Controlling The Unpredictable: The Power of Promising,” where essentially LBS locates the very basis of our identity in the power of promising. LBS says, […]
1/18/2021 Dear David, We received your letter back on 9-28-2020. And at long last, we are writing you back! Tell us more about yourself (where you’re from, the best and worse part of life for you at present, favorite book [besides the Bible], favorite film, best birthday gift you ever got, etc.). The best way […]
And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord.My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. [*What does your heart exult in? What do you deride BECAUSE of the joy of your salvation?] “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there […]
There is a guy who lives within walking distance to 10101, and this guy recently shared this prayer with me: Friends and readers, today I share about the Gospel, the rescuing message for man from God, and about how I pray the Gospel back to God. For reliving the Gospel should be the repeating story […]
I came across this excerpt from Neil Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” and it gave me a boost of sanity! I figured there might be others who are hungry for a sanity-boost, so I wanted to share the following paragraph from Postman’s book with you… “In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and […]
Joy comes from looking at Jesus [Looking to Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. *Hebrews 12:2] Joy comes from desperately depending upon Jesus [For thus says […]
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. [Gal.2:10] [LOVE] 1 John 4:19 – We love because He first loved us. The secret of life & love is RECEIVING God’s love for us. We must crucify our arrogantly absurd beliefs that we are ‘above charity’ and ‘better […]
Let’s take a closer look at how God has designed tithing to be manifestly helpful to the bride and body of Christ. People NEED the Gospel How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how […]