John Myer

Sorry, I Didn’t Know

At times of key disappointment, you got mad and stopped praying or attending Christian meetings. 

Crunch and Crumble

Owing to the scarcity of our mortal resources, we’re no outwardly tougher than the cicada shell. 

Is It Time to Get Serious?

This is a huge, global responsibility that we have been assigned, dominating more than two thousand years. 

January-zilla

Little did I know that one day I would discover the secret of constant, undisturbed joy.

How Alive is Jesus?

It is not until His glory dawns on the heart anew that we realize how much of what we have is only partial and tainted with shadow.

Your Turn Inside the Fish

God often deliberately takes us through things in order to energize our ministries with spiritual experience, practical wisdom, comfort, and trust.

On Religious Futility

Prior to second birth, the internal reality of a man or woman–even those who are religious–is sadly predictable. 

Journey to the Center

I get a distinct impression, though, that we could drill all the way to the earth’s core and never even recognize “the mother lode.” 

Just Because

The pouring out demonstrated a celebration of unconditional love and gratitude.

Message in a Bottle

The message in the “bottle” that had come straight from heaven was all about redemption–Christ lifted up on the cross.

Go Ahead, Rest Deeply

We usually measure faith in its ability to do great works, but faith is found just as surely in how we rest.  

How We Keep Count

The trustworthiness of genuine faith phenomenon usually dwells at some deeper place than what we suppose.

I’ll Pass

Church is a massive crowd of people whose faith we never interact with.

The Last Enemy

While His cross dealt with our sins, His resurrection spoke directly to the death element filling us and looming over our future.

Confronting the Autonomous Self

The very shape and definition of life are thus established in the eternal Son of God, not according to the shifting moods of human beings. 

What Do You See?

May God show us Christ, not only in the Sunday morning message and soaring music but in the believer seated next to us.

Failure in the Core Group

Often, while God is doing something beautiful, men are simultaneously in their hearts and minds heading off into many clueless, dark directions.  

Who Has the Last Word?

At times I’ve had to walk away from toxic online exchanges because I knew there could never be an edifying conclusion to them. 

Plague of Ideas

It’s as though a huge majority of people have subscribed to some sort of “Latest Foolishness” activation email. 

A Rebel in McReligion

From heaven’s priority list, the chief point of any conversation is “What do you think of Christ?”  

On Offensive Theology

The most staid, logical person will suffer IQ reduction when emotions get involved.  

Can’t Argue with That

Nothing is quite so powerful than when eternal life itself speaks up for the believer and for Christ. 

Our Moment by Moment Standing

Scripture points to a God who graciously condescends to dwell among His people, even while they are in an imperfect and potentially offensive state.   

Race at Its Best

We seem to have lost our way in the midst of interracial squabbling and settling scores.

The Mower Cometh

The law does little to change the human heart. The things that lie hidden, lie hidden still.  

Prepared By Loving Hands

These letters were meant for us also, practically from their very inception—packaged grace intended to shape our very hearts.

Truth Illustrated

It seems we must be convinced of our spiritual disease because our first impulse is to deny it.

The Day I Ran Out of Optimism

But there comes a time when, under the Holy Spirit’s gracious conviction, we sense the foolishness of any further concealment and camouflage.

Believing Is Seeing

Condemnation, therefore, came not for failing to rescue all the poor, but for failing only one among their number.

A Brief Consideration of Angels

When Jesus was threatened in the garden, He told Peter that He was able to get twelve legions of angels to protect Him if He had wanted.

Below the Water Line

One night in a house full of opponents, Jesus preached warning words about financial abuse, selfishness, and the unqualified trust in earthly riches.

A Call to Inner Life

We find ourselves in need of coaching from our ancient predecessors on how to experientially enter what we have received. 

Want What You Have

That’s exactly what the Bible commands us to do—continue seeking, not for something you don’t have, but for something you do have.

A Bucket of Cold Water

Jesus names the very things we have enshrined as Christian, and in fact, ones we treat as synonymous with discipleship—family.

History Honestly Written

And so, the legislator God, and the executive Son, not only accomplish the divine plan in spite of evil but through its very turbulence.

When the Mighty Fall

Many of us are overly sympathetic with the failure of others, even to the point that we sync up with their sin. 

What Jesus Said About the Headlines

The more I see it, especially as modeled by the big boy pastors, the more pressure I feel to contribute my two cents to the ever-increasing pile of copper coins.

All the Know-How in the World

God solves our problem with righteousness, straightens out our holiness deficit, and will eventually bring us into glory.

All the Money in the World

When the Son of God finishes faithfully carrying out His Father’s business, He will melt all the riches of this world down to worthless slag.

All the Power in the World

Too many tyrants have fallen immediately to the ground at even a hint of receiving such a prize, kissing the devil’s feet, confessing his greatness, swearing allegiance to him. 

Hunting for Ugly

Once we “think about these things,” we’ll find them every time.

The Certainty of Change

When God gave His Word, He did so knowing our days would not be the same, or at least they wouldn’t be for very long.

Don’t Avoid; Unpack

Every evangelistic encounter, even those that don’t go well, has the long-term potential for salvation.

Behold, How Good!

As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, we must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or admit to doing, and more in light of what they suffer.

Why Listen?

Our marriage, kids, jobs, and more rest on something that seems invisible to the world, the wise word of the Shepherd. 

Buoyant Truth

When you state the facts, with thanksgiving, the feelings follow. 

What Do I Still Lack?

We unwittingly keep a death grip on our stuff, and yet nothing is so frail, so flimsy, than the things we call ours.

Life as a Vapor

Life not only harbors nothing new, but it also has a disturbing way of disappearing into irrelevance. 

Sunset

Timing, therefore, is critical.  Remember God now.

Unpleasant Destinations

Preoccupation with riches, and the busyness it generates, can leave us in a vulnerable place of isolation.

Occupied with Joy

The secret to strength unto contentment and satisfaction is through Him, and in Him.

The Scriptures Invite

Sometimes Bible readers combing through the scriptures, think at the back of their minds, Wow, this is wonderful, but it’s not available to me, or anybody else.

The Failed Search

In the moment I had forgotten God, therefore the joy I should have experienced evaporated instantly.

A Time for Everything and for Everyone

Experiences you have banished from your personal history as worthless and painful, God does not forget. 
He seeks even what we’ve discarded, and makes it serve the overall mosaic of your life.

The Scriptures Describe

Whenever we pick up the Bible, we’re expecting the Scriptures to describe God to us
in such a way that it will teach us, that is, banish our ignorance of spiritual things.