A new therapy for anxiety: Scaring your children (?)!

Things here at Ikonograph have been crazy. Seems I’ve stumbled into a self-perpetuating upward spiral of Google search activity since a few weeks ago after I received a new link from a blog coming out of New Zealand. Seems that my post on Heath Ledger’s role as the Joker is still a hot topic. Or [...]

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Dessication is desolation

Don Whitney was our guest at Omaha Bible Church last weekend. As expected, he dispensed wisdom of the subject of spiritual disciplines. One thing he said that I appreciated was that the spiritual disciplines had to be easy. Referring to 1 Cor 1:26 “For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not [...]

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Pray it like you mean it.

Just a few thoughts on prayer. Prayer is an intensely personal practice. At least it should be. In a lot of ways, no-one can really tell you how you ought to pray. D.A. Carson, author of “A Call to Spiritual Reformation” and all-around uber-genius, says quite a bit on what the content of our prayer [...]

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If the Prince of Princes can ask…

Every now and then, you hear the most mundane thing observed during a sermon. You’ve heard it said a thousand times, read it a thousand times, and so on. Yet this one time you hear it and your ears perk up. This morning, as Pastor Bill Shannon of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles spoke [...]

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