In the modern coffee bar, it takes folding money and a knowledge of foreign languages and flavors to buy “a cup of coffee.” Do you prefer latte or cappuccino? Brazilian or Colombian? A shot of this or a shot of that? Many people who love coffee have steered clear of these modern caffeinated [...]
- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – Relationships are the currency of heaven. Being rightly related to God and rightly related to others – this is true righteousness. God, who loved us first, makes it possible for us to love him. Loving him makes it possible for [...]
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23Sep10
A Taste of the Classics Volume 2
Here is Volume 2 of my new series, A Taste of the Classics. This is available at the KenBoa.org Store. Volumes 3 and 4 will be available in about a month. This series encapsulates and discusses the classic works that helped shape Western civilization. Volume 2 explores The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis), Paradise Lost [...]
23Sep10
A Taste of the Classics Volume 1
Here is Volume 1 of my new series, A Taste of the Classics. This is available at the KenBoa.org Store. This series encapsulates and discusses the classic works that helped shape Western civilization. Volume 1 explores Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis), Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan), The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), and The Imitation of Christ [...]
Gracious Lord, Your kindness, patience and lovingkindness have so often been tried by Your people over the centuries. I know that too often I have done the same by taking Your grace for granted and doing what I wanted to do, hoping that You would go along or ignore my actions. Deliver me from the [...]
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Lord God, Your love for me is causeless and ceaseless and measureless. You have loved me because You have chosen to do so, not because of anything I am or have done. This is the wellspring of my true security, and I revel in Your unconditional love and acceptance, knowing that I could never have [...]
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This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. “Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.” (Psalm 57:5) Before the days of Global Positioning Satellite devices, ships on [...]
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25Jun10
The Surprising Joy of Music
On Saturday, April 24th, 2010, over thirty members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and principal cast members from the upcoming production of La Traviata converged on the Reading Terminal Market Italian Festival. Wearing street clothes and blending in with the crowd, the artists swung into action as the first orchestral strains of the [...]
- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of humility – Israel’s pride led them to disobey God’s commands, so God invested 40 years in developing their humility and obedience. God took them into the desert to show them how vulnerable they were (and how vulnerable we are). In Deuteronomy 8, we [...]
[We must] recognize that all social organizations exist as parodies of eschatological hope. And so it is that the city is a poor imitation of heavenly community; the modern state, a deformed version of the ecclesia; the market, a distortion of consummation; modern entertainment, a caricature of joy; schooling, a misrepresentation of true formation; liberalism, [...]
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