Entrusted with the Gospel

Roger's reflections on grace, God and other grand topics

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  • 3 Years in Heaven for Don Knowlton

    Tomorrow it will be three years ago that Dad went to heaven.  It was one week short of his 86th birthday.  I miss him.  The end came pretty quickly.  He fell in the fall of 2008, and suddenly our world was turned upside down.  Mom has Alzheimer’s and Dad was her caregiver.  Suddenly the “junior Knowltons” were… Continue reading

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  • How to get kids (and ourselves) to obey God…

    Bash them with the Law (rules)?  Threaten with pain or grounding?  Cajole?  Nope.  Won’t work.  How about trying it Paul’s way? He wrote in Titus 2:11, 12… For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives… Continue reading

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  • Crown Me With Only One Crown

    I have sought many crowns in 47 years of life. I sought to be crowned with acceptance at a particular university. Then I sought the crown of diploma, and then the right kind of employment.  I sought the acceptance and approval crown of men and women.  I sought the crown of love, and the crown of material things, bank accounts… Continue reading

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  • Closing Thoughts on Prayer

    40 days of prayer are here and gone. Time flies. It’s March now, which is a happy word during Wisconsin winters, and though I know that snow still finds its way here (like today) the temperatures moderate a bit, and if spring isn’t quite in the air, at least hope is. So here are some final thoughts… Continue reading

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  • The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Pastor

    Stephen Altrogge writes: “What is the best thing that you can do for you pastor? Compliment him on his “outstanding, almost Charles Spurgeon-like sermon”? Give money to the church? Give your time and skills to the church? Not heckle him? Admire him for his manly beard? While those are all wonderful things, they are not… Continue reading

  • Praying Like Paul and Don Carson

    It was in seminary that I was introduced to the idea of praying the Apostle Paul’s prayers.  My Greek professor, Dr. Don Carson (a.k.a. D.A. Carson), wrote a book on prayer (A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers), and as the title suggests, it was mostly about using Paul’s prayers to… Continue reading

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  • Death is Wrong

    Elisabeth and I are reading Surprised by Oxford: A Memoir, by Carolyn Weber, the story of a young agnostic woman and her surprising encounter with Christ at Oxford.  Ms. Weber is a delightful writer, and this evening as I read aloud, there were a couple of passages that I almost couldn’t get through, they moved… Continue reading

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  • Feel Like Giving Up?

    Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.  Luke 18:1 (NIV) I’m not going to say anything about the parable that follows this verse.  You can go look it up yourself later.  I will mention, however, that it’s in my personal top 5 of Jesus’ parables. I’ve… Continue reading

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  • Prayer by Eric Alexander

    As a sophomore at the University of Illinois, I attended the 1984 Intervarsity Urbana conference.  Sometimes you don’t so much remember the conference as the feeling you had there.  That’s true for me and Urbana ‘84.  I had been a Christian for about 2 ½ years, and I don’t think I had so much considered… Continue reading

  • Right and Wrong Worship

    This video that I ran across today gives me the opportunity to say something about worship, one of my favorite forms of prayer (don’t try to relate these comments to the video; I just thought it was somewhat funny): I really enjoy our worship at Edgewood – I think we are very blessed. And if… Continue reading

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