the waiting country

Psalm 33:5 tells us that the whole earth is filled with Yahweh's unfailing love. It's a nice thought - the world filled with love. ...

In John 1 , Jesus displays his prescience in his encounter with Nathanael and it takes a particular form: statement by Jesus (v.47); respons...

In his helpful material on Exodus, Peter Enns makes the following observations: For centuries readers of Exodus have seen that the tabernacl...

I previously posted a link to Tim Keller's helpful piece on the big questions facing western churches today. Here are his thoughts on ...

It's what Spotify is so very good at - giving access to jewels you never knew existed or had, at best, only heard rumours of. The First ...

It's another of those 'Not sure I'd have used the OT in quite that way, Paul' passages. And with an interesting twist. A num...

This piece wasn't written for pastors but it contains wisdom that is eminently transferable.

Isaac inherited God's promises to Abraham. In Genesis 26:12 we're told that he planted crops and in that same year "reaped a h...

Jesus asks for a drink from a woman. She then takes his offer of living water to the townspeople who also come to believe that he is 'th...

In Psalm 28:8 there is a great example of synthetic parallelism that brings out the connection between the people and the Lord's anoint...

The claim of the NT writers was that in light of the event of Jesus Christ, the Old Testament takes on new, unforseen significance. This dep...

Years ago I'd have been stunned to think I would include a jazz album in a list like this - it just wasn't on my horizon at all. But...

If you don't have a Kindle (and I, for one, don't know anyone who has) yet you do have an iPod Touch or an iPhone (and there are ho...

I found this post by Mike Rohde really helpful - I'm trying to take the same approach to reading big books (well, any books actually) -...

Friday nights are often punctuated by new discoveries on spotify; this week is an album by The Associates that spills 1982 into the air wi...

The relation between Creator and creature is, of course, unique, and cannot be paralleled by any relations between one creature and another....

The king rejoices in your strength, YHWH. How great is his joy in the victories you give! 2 You have granted him his heart's ...

I was just thinking that maybe what really matters is not how much reading material I get through per se but how much thinking that readin...

I have no wish to mark this day, as though your loss was confined because you were coffined and dissolved, beyond view, all your days lost a...

A great piece by Ray Ortlund. I especially appreciated the wisdom and challenge of these words: A major part of pastoral ministry is preach...