I promise I won’t fill this blog with quotes from my daily readings in Institutes of the Christian Religion all year, but I simply can’t help but share this one!
We must be persuaded not only that as he once formed the world, so he sustains it by his boundless power, governs it by his wisdom, [...]
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Take some time to listen to this fantastic sermon by Dan Cruver of Together for Adoption and the Carolina Hope Adoption Agency. I wish more churches were talking about, supporting, and encouraging horizontal adoption — it’s the only proper response to vertical adoption in Christ.
“When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth [...]
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In the Epilogue section of the July-August 2008 section of Matthias Media’s the Briefing, Nathan Walter gives some good advice to those of us who listen to sermons on our iPods. These are suggestions “for how to listen to sermons in a way that will help us grow as Christians”:
Vary your diet of preachers, and, [...]
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1. Private Worship :: Does it Exist?
2. Private Worship :: Plan and Place
3. Private Worship :: Period and Privacy
4. Private Worship :: Purpose and Preparation
I have enjoyed the conversations that this series has prompted with friends and church members. Please feel free to leave a comment, email me, or just come talk to me if [...]
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Robert Murray M’Cheyne was a Scottish pastor who died at the age of twenty-nine. Although he lived in the early part of the nineteenth century, his words are astoundingly appropriate for today:
I am concerned for the poor but more for you. I know not what Christ will say to you in the great day… I [...]
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I received my Amazon Kindle in the mail yesterday and I am amazed, to say the least. I will say without hesitation that this is the greatest technological masterpiece since the iPod. As with most “first release” technology, I was somewhat reluctant to purchase a Kindle because of the cost and the realization that these [...]
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Charitywater.org is drilling wells in Ethiopia this week, using the money they collected through a campaign called “Born in Sepember“. They recruited people throughout the world with birthdays in September to find as many people as they could to donate $33 instead of buying them a birthday present. The result has been thousands of dollars [...]
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I’m leaving in a few hours to take 55 middle, high school, and college students and adults to the 2008 Ephesus Student Ministry Summer camp. We’re headed to St. Simon’s Island, Georgia — it’s about 1.5 hours down the road. I’m very excited, and think everyone else is as well.I will be preaching through the [...]
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A few random thoughts and things…
Vacation Bible School in Lakeshore, Mississippi was fantastic. The Lord truly blessed us with a great opportunity to serve approximately 35 children and their families while we were there. I had the opportunity to preach the gospel at our commencement last Friday evening, and then it was in the vehicles [...]
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Two of the greatest and most challenging things I’ve read all week:
“In a heated moment all of us are quite capable of treating a minor detail of life as if it were a major thing. We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value” (26).
“It is so [...]
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