Harry Lee Poe’s three-part biography about the life of C.S. Lewis is a masterpiece. Poe writes with clarity and wit, and with an understated prose that seems to bring Clive Staples Lewis to life. In the third volume of his set, The Completion of C.S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945-1963), Poe covers the life of Lewis in …
I’m a little bit of a preaching nerd. I enjoy good preaching and rich sermons. I also get a little aggravated when it becomes clear that a preacher didn’t prepare well or doesn’t treat the preaching of the inerrant Word of God with the gravity that it deserves. I have also read a lot of preaching books. …
How do you place the suffering of the people of God into its proper historical context? Well, you begin by giving them the history behind their suffering. God had called a people to Himself out of Egypt.They had covenanted together. Yahweh would be their God, and they would be His people. But it didn’t take …
Most Christians struggle with prayer at some level. We struggle with time spent. We struggle with what to pray for. We struggle with seeing answers to our prayers. We struggle with how God’s sovereignty connects with our prayers. Prayer is hard. I remember as a Bible college student struggling with stories of missionaries and pastors …
I first heard Jared Wilson speak at a Shepherd’s 360 conference in Cary, North Carolina. I had heard of him prior to that, but had not engaged with his writings or heard him speak. He struck me as a speaker who was intently focused on the text and very self-aware. His self-deprecation about his “seeker …
