The Theological Significance in Adoption

As we are in the first week of welcoming our second adopted child into our home, this video from John Piper reminds us of the importance of how horizontal adoption reflects our vertical adoption. Also, here is a link to my review of the book, Adopted for Life, the book that propelled us to pursue adoption [...]

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Heading to Cambodia

Tomorrow morning, I’ll join nine other people from The Harbor for a worldview/missions tour in Cambodia. Unfortunately, Kristie and Hudson will be staying home. Please follow our trip at http://okicambodia.wordpress.com. We’ll have several people posting pictures and updates.

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Page CXVI Hymns

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Redeemer Sermons on iTunes

Tim Keller, the pastor of Redeemer Church in Manhattan and the author of The Reason for God, now is podcasting his sermons on iTunes. You will do well listening to this man. Enjoy! http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/timothy-keller-podcast/id352660924

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Reading Through the Bible in a Year

As you consider ways to reading through the Bible in 2010, consider these plans. I want to encourage you to pick a specific plan to help to keep you accountable on track. Any plan will help with your goal. I’m attaching the plan that Kristie and I did this year, and I will start again [...]

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Please Feed the Monks

In Luang Prabang, monks begin their day accepting alms for daily food. This feeds the monks and helps the giver earn karma credits. While some may see this as a touching gesture, it is a works-based salvation (like most other religions). Christianity differs in this regard. Food is given because there are hungry people, not [...]

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Meaning of the Cross

From The Valley of Vision (pp. 76-77), Christ was all anguish that I might be all joy, cast off that I might be brought in, trodden down as an enemy that I might be welcomed as a friend, surrendered to hell's worst that I might attain heaven's best, stripped that I might be clothed, wounded [...]

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Jesus Wants the Rose

Here’s an excerpt from Matt Chandler’s excellent sermon in the last Desiring God conference. The full sermon of “A Shepherd and His Unregenerate Sheep” can be downloaded here.

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Zombifying a Generation

A.W. Tozer writes in The Knowledge of the Holy: “Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. We cover our deep ignorance with words, but we are ashamed to wonder, we are afraid to whisper “mystery.” 

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South Koreans Find New Way to Evangelize

Christian activists in South Korea sent hundreds of thousands of gospel tracts over North Korea's closed border in November using helium-filled balloons. Equipped with a time-release mechanism, each balloon carried 10,000 leaflets that tell the story of a 1907 Christian revival in Pyongyang, and compare Kim Jong-Il to Nebuchadnezzar. The effort is part of a [...]

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