And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:19

I honestly don’t know what to say. The past two weeks have been amazing. We weren’t entirely certain how things would come together in order for us to pay rent by the November 5th deadline. I had emptied the account I had set up for my planned trip to ETS/SBL in order to pay the rent the month before, and here we were, short again… (Click below to read the rest of this post)

I have a confession to make.

Despite my knowing better, I’ve allowed my desire for the approval of others to dictate my actions. I’ve allowed an anonymous detractor to take precedence over the countless others who have affirmed me. And by far the most egregious of all, I have robbed God of the glory due Him.

23 weeks ago (!!) I had an exchange with an anonymous commentator on my blog. This individual challenged me and leveled some accusations against me that were uninformed and untrue, although understandable. I only wish he had taken the time to gather some facts and ask some questions before he made his initial post.

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A great post on Reformation Day, Luther and the current state of Lutheranism that I just read on Paul T. McCain’s blog – I encourage you to go over and give it a read.

One of the classes I’m taking this semester at DTS is “Spiritual Formation in Historical Perspective”. Thus far, it has been a great class. It had heightened my appreciation for church history while at the same time convicting me of the fact that I spend little to no time in pursuing the Spiritual Disciplines.

The purpose of this blog post is to let you all know about a great resource that has just been released today. The Holy Bible: Mosaic NLT
is something Tyndale has been working on for some time. They have ambitiously tackled this project with a goal of taking us through the scriptures while providing insight from every contenent and century of the Christian church.

They have been kind enough to provide me with a review copy that I will be checking out in the coming days. I look forward to posting my review and sharing it with all of you! In the meantime, check it out on Amazon by clicking the image to the left and let me know what you think.

I wonder when DTS will offer this type of training…

(If you are seeing this on Facebook, you need to go to my blog at http://www.innerstrife.com to see the below video.)

What is your church doing to serve the disabled community? I heard some eye-opening statistics today in class. Did you know that according to a recent study 41.3 million people in this country are classified as disabled? That’s slightly less than 1 in 7 – here in the southern states, the number is closer to 1 in 5!

With that number in mind, consider the fact that 53% of individuals with a disability do not attend a local church in any form. A large part of the reason for this is that very few American churches (less than 15%) have an intentional program of any kind that is geared to service individuals with disabilities.

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