How do you know who does and doesn’t deserve forgiveness? How far do you take forgiveness? If someone committed the most heinous crime imaginable, do you allow him back into society? Do you welcome him into your community? How about your own home? In 1973 Raymond Guay kidnapped and murdered a twelve year old boy. [...]
Archive for March, 2009
How Far Does Forgiveness Go?
Posted in current events, Uncategorized, tagged child murderer, david pinckney, forgiveness, raymond guay, the gospel on March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
An Ever Expanding Gospel!
Posted in john piper, tagged gospel, john piper, reformed theology on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From John Piper: Never Let the Gospel Get Smaller Posted: 16 Mar 2009 11:42 PM PDT (Author: John Piper) Here is a simple exhortation that I have been trying to implement in our family: Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Our temptation is to think [...]
What is God’s Will For My Life? Part 1
Posted in Finding God's Will, Trinity Institute, Uncategorized, Wednesdays at Trinity, tagged bruce waltke, Finding God's Will, lent, trinity episcopal, wednesday nights on March 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In this lesson we examined how we can know God’s will for our lives. We learned that God’s desire is that we be less concerned with our outward circumstances and more concerned with our own inward condition. A good supplemental reading would be Bruce Waltke’s Finding God’s Will: a pagan idea? I know of no other book as [...]
Collapse of the Evangelical Empire
Posted in church, current events, tagged culture wars, evangelicalism on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t agre with all of this man’s predictions. Personally, I think it’s a little doom and gloom, focused on the statistics of American Christianity and not the faithfulness of God to the preaching of the Gospel. That being said, the future of evangelicalism given the tide of the current culture wars is certainly precarious, [...]
Suffer the Little Children
Posted in Family Life, j.c. ryle, tagged christian children, families, infant baptism, j.c. ryle, raising children on March 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
J.C. Ryle comments on infant baptism and the spiritual state of children, and, I think, gives some sage advice on how to tend to our children’s souls. Let us observe, for one thing, in this passage, how ignorantly people are apt to treat children, in the matter of their souls. We read that there were [...]
Preach Jesus Christ
Posted in charles spurgeon, Uncategorized, tagged charles spurgeon, preaching, reformed on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just so you know where we get it from! I have heard of a young man asking, when he was going to preach in a certain place, “What kind of church is it? What do the people believe? What is their doctrinal view?” I will tell you how to avoid the necessity of such a [...]
The New Ben Plyler Fan Club
Posted in music, tagged After the Grave, Ben Plyler on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ben’s a good friend and brother in Christ. He’s passionately redeemed of the Lord and obviously been given a gift for music. I’m posting this now so that when he gets famous, he won’t forget the little people!
Something to Ponder
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gospel, pardon, Thomas Watson on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spend 5 minutes thinking about this quote from Thomas Watson: “Never did any man read his pardon with dry eyes!”
AMEN!!!
Posted in Arthur Pink, tagged A.W. Pink, immature, priestcraft, reformed theology, spirituality on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One thing that frequently disturbs me in ministry is how our denomination has forced the centrality of the priesthood. It bothers me for a number of ungodly reasons, but it disturbs me when the Holy Spirit has a hold of my heart. It disturbs me, very simply, because it retards spiritual growth and brings dishonor [...]
A Whole Generation of Spoiled Idiots
Posted in just for fun, tagged comedy, conan obrien, Louis CK, thankfulness on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This guy’s funny and very astute. I think in the end he misses the point though. It seems that his point is we should be thankful that we live in the 21st Century with all of its comforts. My point would be this; with all the advances we’ve made in society, with all of our [...]
