June 23 Devotional: Streams in the Desert
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Streams in the Desert - June 23
Made Perfect Through Sufferings
Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows…
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It is doubtful if, in 1972, those attending one of Jim Cymbala's worship services in a run-down Brooklyn church imagined…
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Streams in the Desert - June 23
Made Perfect Through Sufferings
ABSTRACT: In understanding how discipleship to Jesus Christ works, a major issue is how he automatically presents himself to our minds. It is characteristic of most 20th century Christians that he does not automatically come to mind as one of great intellectual power: as Lord of universities and research institutes, of the creative disciplines and scholarship. The Gospel accounts of how he actually worked, however, challenge this intellectually marginal image of him and help us to see him at home in the best of academic and scholarly settings of today, where many of us are called to be his apprentices.
Christian Scholar's Review, 1999, Vol. XXVIII, #4, 605-614. Also available in The Great Omission, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2006.

"For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." Romans 10:3
"Saving Faith" An Exposition of Chapter 10, published by The Banner of Truth Trust: 1997 1.800.263.8085 (pp.28-39).
"For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going We have, so far, been dealing with the first two verses, and have seen that certain general lessons are taught there by the Apostle. These not only concern his contemporaries, the Jews, but are of universal application in the life of the church up to the present time.
Read more: Ignorant of the Truth: A sermon by Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Born in Ireland in 1898, C. S. Lewis was educated at Malvern College for a year and then privately. He gained a triple first at Oxford and was a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College 1925-54. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. He was an outstanding and popular lecturer and had a lasting influence on his pupils.
Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings.
The Trinity function as farmers of our souls, actively caring for God’s creation: an ongoing, radical reclamation of His creation.…
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The Jesus who calmed a sea of deadly, stormy waves, whose arrival sent thousands of demons cringing and cowering to…
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Eugene Peterson’s book, Eat This Book gets its name from Revelation 10:9-10 when John asks for the scroll containing God’s…
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This Christian apologetics written by C. S. Lewis and first published in 1942. Lewis composed a book of letters from…
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I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fieldsOnly to be with youOnly to be with you
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What a song! by Jon Foreman. This is a moving reworking of the Lord’s Prayer. Jon Foreman performs this song…
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Walter Brueggeman gave a remarkable sermon at Duke Chapel on April 5, 2009 in which he discussed the importance of…
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Is this enough proof?
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Who is like Him The Lion and the Lamb Seated on the throne Mountains bow down Every ocean roars To the Lord of hosts
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You probably know Paul Washer as the man who preached the infamous "Shocking Youth Message," a sermon that has tallied…
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Look inside the mysterySee the empty crossSee the risen SaviorVictorious and strong
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How do we pray? What should we pray for? Yes, there is the Lord's prayer--Jesus teaching his disciples, and us,…
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Tim Keller discusses the significance of the women and men who saw Jesus die, buried, and resurrected.
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NT Wright discusses the importance of prayer in maintaining a relationship with Jesus.
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Michael Reeves discusses the transformative power of bringing Jesus to the world at the heart of the Reformation.
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The following is an excerpt from an article on The Gospel Coalition website.
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