Lessons learned while waiting

In April 2007 the elders completed a master ministry plan for the church and then considered what impact that plan would have on the facilities. The combined plans were then excitedly shared with the church body — “this is what we believe God is doing in our church body and community and how we should […]

Today’s Quote – Patience (Murray)

Andrew Murray, “Waiting on God:” If we truly set ourselves to wait upon God, we shall find that it is with Him that we are impatient, because He does not at once, or as soon as we could wish, to do our bidding. It is in waiting upon God that our eyes are opened to […]

Today’s Quote – God’s Glory (Charnock)

Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God: To pretend homage to God and intend only the advantage to myself is rather to mock God than to worship Him. When we believe we ought to be satisfied rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves and imagine that He should submit His own honor […]

Grab Bag

A list of collected resources, interesting articles, and even an opportunity or two from the last week: Allister Begg’s conference for pastors is always interesting and helpful. I’ve listened to the audio for the last two or three years, and this year one of the speakers is a guy named Piper. Hmmm. I won’t be […]

Today’s Quote – Depravity (Edwards)

Jonathan Edwards, quoted in The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards: My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or infinite mountains over my head. I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me […]

Today’s Quote – God’s Wrath (Mahaney)

C. J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Not only will He leave nothing in that cup of wrath for us to drink…but today you and I find ourselves with another cup in our hands. It’s the cup of salvation. From this precious new cup we find ourselves drinking and drinking — drinking consistently, drinking […]

Recent conference audio

I have recently listened to the majority of the audio from two recent conferences; both of these sets are worth hearing. The Bethlehem conference featured Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, addressing the topic of evangelism (which was also the topic of a recent book by Dever). The Sola conference addressed the reformation […]

Today’s Quote – Scripture (Calvin)

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1.13.22): …let us use great caution that neither our thoughts nor our speech go beyond the limits to which the Word of God itself extends. For how can the human mind measure off the measureless essence of God according to its own little measure, a mind as yet […]

My lost week of blogging

That would be my l-o-s-t week, and not my l-a-s-t week. As in, God sovereignly ordered my week last week in such a way that the computer was used for only the barest of essentials (study and critical emails), and virtually nothing else, including my blog. Several months ago, I decided that I needed to […]

Sunday Leftovers (2/15/09)

When God waits for a thousand years to accomplish a purpose of His own, He does not wait a long time. He waits only for “one day.” That is, His purposes are not compromised by a delay of a thousand years, nor are they enhanced by the delay. In fact, what are a thousand years […]

Today’s Quote – Worship (Ferguson)

Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of Repentance: Worship is increasingly becoming a spectator event of visual and sensory power, rather than a verbal event in which we engage in a deep soul dialogue with the Triune God.… There was a time when four simple words were enough to bring out goose bumps on the neck of […]

Today’s Quote – Common Grace (Frame)

John Frame, The Doctrine of God: God prevents fallen men from doing all the wrong they could do. He places a mark on Cain, so that others will not take his life (Gen. 4;15). He confuses the languages of men during the building of the tower of Babel, lest “nothing they plan to do will […]

Today’s Quote – Righteousness (MacArthur)

John MacArthur, Matthew 1-7: When our spiritual hunger and thirst are genuine they will make no conditions; they will seek and accept God’s righteousness in whatever way He chooses to provide it and will obey His commands no matter how demanding they may be. The least of God’s righteousness is more valuable than the greatest […]

Today’s Quote – Parenting (Augustine)

Augustine (quoted in Discipleship Journal): Do not imagine that you love your children when you never discipline them, or that you do not [sic] love your neighbors when you never admonish them. This is not love but mere weakness. Let your love be eager to correct, to reform. If there is good behavior, let it […]

Today’s Quote – Idolatry (Guinness & Seel)

Os Guinness and John Seel, No God But God: …idols will inevitably involve self-centeredness, self-inflation, and self-deception. Idolatry begins with the counterfeiting of God, because only with a counterfeit of God can people remain the center of their lives and loyalties, autonomous architects of their futures. Something within creation will then be idolatrously inflated to […]