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Category Archives: desires

Sermon: What We Want from the Word

December 27, 2020

What We Want from the Word Psalm 119:129-136 December 27, 2020 What did you want this week?  That’s a fitting …

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What do you want?

June 25, 2020

D. A. Carson told the story of Lillian Guild who was driving one day with her husband and noticed a …

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You have one wish…

November 20, 2014

It’s your birthday. And positioned on the table in front of you is your celebration cake, loaded with far too …

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Gluttony – it’s not just overeating

October 3, 2013

As someone who has battled with controlling his weight for most of his life, I appreciated this from The Christian …

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Sunday Leftovers: Worldly desires

August 29, 2013

“Do not love the world, nor the things in the world.” John (1 Jn. 2:15) could not be more clear.  …

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Expunging the world from your heart

August 20, 2013

Thomas Chalmers, “The Explusive Power of a New Affection:” The love of the world cannot be expunged by a mere …

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Greater things, lesser things, and our culture

April 5, 2013

C. S. Lewis makes some helpful observations about greater and lesser things in an essay in God in the Dock.  …

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Your motive matters

March 14, 2013

Almost three decades ago, when I was a first or second-year seminary student, a retired pastor in our congregation pulled …

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Heads up!

October 29, 2012

Even as a young elementary student, I knew what “Heads up!!!” meant there was an incoming ball on a swift …

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What do you want? — a chart

July 26, 2012

Earlier today, I blogged about our desires and passions in relation to our position in Christ (“What do you want?”). …

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What do you want?

July 26, 2012

What do you want?  What do your really long for and crave?  What do you want so badly that even …

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What am I looking at?

July 24, 2012

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into …

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Ask whatever you want…God will do it

April 18, 2012

Found on the internet recently: “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” …

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Blessings and woes

January 26, 2012

Every life has good and trouble — or to use the terms of Luke 6, blessings and woes.  Each day …

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Ministry motives

January 17, 2012

I was in my first or second or second year of seminary when a retired pastor and an elder in …

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