Starting Hebrews…today!

I know we were not supposed to start just yet, but my wife was getting tired of not memorizing anything and so we decided to go ahead and just do a verse a day for right now.
Update concerning website: Now that the dwelling-rich.org overhaul is complete, this site will be shutting down [...]

Psalm 119 and Spiritual Delight, pt. 1

The point of this post is not to sound “Piper-ish” as in John Piper, rather I was looking at Ps. 119 and began to find verse after verse (over 30) concerning how emotions attached to the word of God.  David (or whoever wrote the Psalm, it is not credited to anyone) is provoked to Hope, [...]

Thoughts and Ideas

Okay, just had an old friend of mine over from my college days.  He has moved back to town from Louisville, KY. where he was finishing up his MDiv.  I spilled my guts about how my desire is to start a para-church educational ministry.  Basically, the purpose would be to get educational materials into the [...]

Jude 4

“For certain people have crept in unnoticed, who were long ago designated for this condemnation, ungodly people who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.”
I love the word usage throughout Jude.  These people, against whom we must contend for pure doctrine, have crept into the [...]

Jude 3

(Decided to do meditations through Jude instead of praying through Jude.)
“Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you our common salvation, I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints.”
There comes a time, indeed, for fellowship. We cannot deny the [...]

Epistle of Jude

While we are waiting for Phil, Katie and I to begin our time in Hebrews, I am going to be “praying through the Epistle of Jude starting tomorrow morning.  Memorization and Meditation feeds into every other spiritual discipline.  Memorization should lead us into Meditation upon what we just memorized.  Meditation, drinking deeply and deliberately from [...]

Meditation

I am in the process of writing my second book, which is on Meditation (as the title of this post implies).  This book, in my mind at least, is long overdue and I wish that I had written this one first, but, oh well.  I believe that Meditation is an untapped power source for many [...]

Discipline

This post is not about tooting my own horn, or patting myself on the back. What I am about to say I say because God has allowed me a great deal of discipline recently in regards to His word, and I praise Him for it.
God has placed it around lately a call for discipline [...]

Next Book…

So, Dwelling Rich is built upon the premise that Memorization and Meditation for the Believer should be ongoing disciplines, constantly pursued throughout the course of one’s pilgrimage.  For this reason, in about 6-7 weeks, I am going to begin memorization the Letter to the Hebrews.  This will be, Lord willing I finish, the sixth book [...]

Did Jesus Teach the “Age of Aquarius”?

If you twist anyone’s arm long enough they will tell you what you want to hear. Unfortunately, we have treated the Bible the same way. I was listening to the radio last Tuesday to the Dave Glover Show, a weird and rather miscellaneous show that comes on 97.1 here in Saint Louis. [...]