Last week in Daniel 4 we saw the final of 3 scenes in which God reveals himself to Nebuchadnezzar. The first was in a dream, the second was in a fiery furnace, and then God communicates to the king in a second dream. And in this dream, which Daniel interprets, the king sees…

Daniel 4 tells us that God speaks and acts for the glory of His kingdom. And that is something He still does today. This same pattern is happening now. God has spoken through a man, and through His book. He has promised an everlasting kingdom, a rock cut from the holy mountain…

Last weekend my wife and I were watching a favorite show of ours together after the kids were in bed. During a commercial there was an ad for a new show about love and relationships (I can’t honestly remember what it was called), and the tagline at the end of the commercial came…

I hear all the time that we are to “speak life” to one another. People like this idea of speaking life to others, and few people seem to have a problem with it, and that’s likely because the idea of “speaking life” is thought to be equivalent to speaking encouraging things to one…

If you’ve been around Redeemer for a little while, you may have heard people using the term “Life Groups”. Over the next few weeks here, the pastors are going to do a mini-series of exhortations to help us all understand what a Life Group is and why we have them at Redeemer. Here…

I am not usually a very impulsive person. But every once in a while, I will do things that I regret almost immediately. For example, I recently signed up for a race just a few weeks beforehand with little time to get in shape. Despite my regrets for having signed up, I was not…