The New Plan!

So here is the new plan for this blog.  As you have noticed I stopped posting a couple months ago due to a ministry project that was taking my morning time and this has since left and returned in a couple variations but this time off has given me opportunity to evaluate my heart and what I was doing with the blog.  Here are my thoughts below...

Positives-

• Blog is valuable ministry tool for communication and encouragement of the saints
• Blog is valuable tool for making other resources easily available to folks in my men's group and such
• Blog is encouragement to those who want to see that Jeff is still fired up if that gives them hope of sustained joy or zeal as well

Negatives-

• Blog is a strain on my morning time and can be a distraction from God
• Blog is a source of spiritual pride or frustration as I am more or less successful in posting something "worthwhile"
• Blog too easily becomes my goal each morning rather than connecting with God

Conclusion-

I have decided that I will post once a week, probably on the weekend, to summarize what God is hitting me with through personal study, fellowship, looking at other resources, etc.  The posts will not really be an effort at expository reflection or anything fancy but rather sort of a weekly wrap-up that might include links to favorite blog posts or sermons or other messages or books or whatever.  

So there it is...once a week.  Let's go with that and see what happens.  

Soli Deo Gloria!

Calvary Love

I love meditating on what was happening during those hours that Jesus was on the cross.  

Jesus faced the worst temptation imaginable while suffering ultimate wrath and simultaneous abandonment at the hand of His Father- He could have released His hold on the universe and at once there would have existed NOTHING but the triune God of all eternity…IT WAS NOT NAILS THAT HELD HIM TO THAT CROSS! The Lion of the tribe of Judah has a warrior heart-

John Piper has written a beautiful poem that captures the heart of the matter.

Unsure when I will be blogging again and I am reconsidering the way I was doing it...

Soli Deo Gloria!

Still Here

Well- It's now been a month since my last post and I am still entrenched in a project that requires my morning hours in study and preparation of a 10-part series on the Christian Faith.

I think it may be as long as another month before I will be able to return to my journaling practice in my daily reading. I truly long to get back to this regular verse by verse study and I hope that anyone looking at this is themselves digging daily into God's Word for the nourishment of their soul.

Soli Deo Gloria!

Jeff