As we work our way into Daniel 11 tonight, I want to call your attention back to last week when we covered Daniel 10. Daniel 10 opens with Daniel praying and fasting for three weeks - he is seeking the Lord, and the Lord responds in a marvelous way by unfolding for Daniel what we…

Daniel 10 In our context, it is a very common thing to put on a face that suggests all is good and right in our world, even when it is far from being true. Many people do it — they might feel stressed, hurt, disappointed, and yet the look on their face, their posture, their…

Daniel 9 It is no small thing to ask someone to believe what the Bible says. It’s one thing for you yourself to know, internalize, and believe it, but the more you actually talk about the Bible with people, the more you realize in it are texts that are difficult to understand…

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…