Reflections from the Asbury Revival
My family went and took part in the Asbury Revival of 2023 for an afternoon. Here are my reflections in random order.
My family went and took part in the Asbury Revival of 2023 for an afternoon. Here are my reflections in random order.
A couple of years ago, I tried to fill a little notebook with one Bible thought per day. I found it recently and there are some pages empty, so I’m backfilling them. Here is one today from Numbers 31:6 about Phinehas.
These are my notes and commentary from a prayer meeting in March of 2016. Rus Lyons spoke about God’s compassionate love for us, starting with those funny stale marshmallow hearts with messages in them. I didn’t capture his whole talk because I was taking notes! God has a history of loving His people. When the…
This week we have been doing one of the things that our Christian community, The People of Praise, does regularly all over the United States: we’ve been a ‘household.’ We aren’t the only ones doing this, from the looks of Instagram, but everyone else calls it ‘having house guests.’ Having someone stay at your house…
These are some old notes I never posted from Tim Keller and John Burke. I don’t remember where or when the event happened, but these notes are still good.
Sergius Paulus on Cyprus had a Jewish sorcerer in his cabinet This shows he was into spiritual stuff, which gives us some insight into why he wanted to listen to Paul speak. Paul said “you are going to be blind for a time, not even able to see the light of the sun” and Elymas…
This is the last talk of the whole summit, and his 5 points were a great way to look at next steps from all of this stuff. I’ll forgive the cheesiness of him forcing them to be 5 C words. They weren’t even, and that stuff always comes across dumb to me, but the points…
This was a really good talk. A lot of what he talked about applies in my neighborhood in Evansville too.
There was so much good in this talk. You can see some of it in my notes.
Andy G said they always end day one with a fiery preacher to bring stuff together from the day. That’s exactly what this guy did. It was really good. I especially like how he acted out the kid coming home from Jesus feeding the 5,000 with all of the leftovers for his family.