“I ask for anointing, I ask for authority,
I ask for Your Spirit to make the appointment
Where You meet with Your people in truth and in triumph.”
21 Prayers, p. 92
Gone Really Wrong
“We think that our cultural disintegration has to be more in the grand style—kind of like a Super Bowl halftime gone wrong, as being watched by someone who had just dropped a couple of hits of contaminated acid.”
Mere Christendom, p. ix
The Ultimate Cycle
“We worship You now, You are God the great Writer,
And Christ, the Lord Jesus, is our God the Written,
And Your doubled Spirit is God the pure Reader.”
21 Prayers, p. 91
Speaking of Israel
“I don’t agree with Manifest Destiny, but I still live in Idaho.”
American Milk & Honey, p. 202
They Go Together
“Crack open our hearts and pour in Your Spirit.
As we open Your Word, as we open our Bibles.”
21 Prayers, p. 89
Forgotten Forever
“The gospel is the message that through Christ—through His sinless life, His death, burial, and resurrection—Israel finally got it right. Because of Christ, and through faith in Him, the incident with the golden calf can be forgotten forever.”
American Milk & Honey, p. 197
A Beautiful Hinge
“The apostle Paul taught that the blessings to an obedient Israel in Deuteronomy are promises that are available to Gentiles through Christ (Eph. 6:2). This reality is the hinge upon which his argument in Romans 11 turns.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 194
The Far Edges
“I ask that this movement would be the result
Of the power Christ showed when He rose from the dead,
Moving within us—in, through, and under.
Help us to know the gospel as central,
Help us to see it right out to the edges.”
21 Prayers, p. 89
One or the Other
“Jesus is either the Messiah promised in the Old Testament, or He is not. There is no real way to split the difference on such a question. If the claim is false, then Christians are guilty of perpetuating the most preposterous fraud ever. If the claim is true, then pious Jews studying the Old Testament are like Shakespeare scholars who have devoted their lives to the study of Hamlet, but who have failed to recognize the prince of Denmark. As just mentioned, it is not possible to have Jesus be the Messiah ‘for the Christians and not the Messiah ‘for the Jews.’ That might seem like a mild form of relativism, but relativism always metastasizes.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 193
Like the Wine at Cana
“I pray that Your people this morning would hear
A much better sermon than what I will preach.”
21 Prayers, p. 88