Virtually every week I read at least one article or blog post about the influence of technology on our culture. Just this morning I read one post that defended some positive impacts of technology, and specifically, social media. And I watched a video that was quite entertaining, but of little redeeming value (is this really […]
Read More Let the technology buyer bewareAfter the development of the biblical counseling movement under the leadership of Jay Adams a generation ago, that movement has expanded greatly in recent years through organizations like NANC, CCEF, and ABC. In fact, growth has come so quickly and gone in so many directions that it is sometimes difficult to tell who is who, […]
Read More Unifying biblical counselorsIf you have been married any significant length of time, both you and your mate have changed significantly. The husband or wife is significantly different from the man or woman you married ___ years ago. But that does not mean love has ended. Those changes mean opportunities for the constant rekindling of a biblically distinctive […]
Read More Learning to Love…All Over Again | RPM MinistriesA few days ago, I came across a question, “when is an issue important enough to correct someone?” The issue in that post seemed to be centered on correcting incorrect information (e.g., if something is not true, how often and when should I attempt to correct it?), and in that regard was helpful. However, that […]
Read More When should I confront a brother?What is a way out of a bad marriage without getting a divorce? Here is Mike Mason’s answer: One thing that is very important to know in marriage is that there is always a way out. And the way out is not divorce! No, the way out in marriage (no matter how bad things may […]
Read More A way out of marriageZac Smith died of cancer at 33. He left behind a wife and three children. Yet he said before he died: “Cancer is the best thing that has ever happened to me.” After his death, his wife continued to walk in similar faith in God — “God doesn’t just throw stuff to us and then […]
Read More “Cancer is the best thing that ever happened to me”Having spent five sermons on the topic of marriage from Ephesians 5:22-33, here are a number of principles that I found particularly important and compelling as we made our way through these verses: The commands for a wife to submit (v. 22) and a husband to love (v. 25) are a choice. They are not […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (2/20/11)A few days ago, I was reading a debate on whether God hears the prayers of an unbeliever. Here is the kind of prayers from an unbeliever that the Lord hears and answers: Tom Martin Testimony on Vimeo on Vimeo. Let this also serve as a guide for our own praying for the unsaved! HT: […]
Read More God’s hears some prayers of unbelieversBelievers live in a place that is not their home. It is often all-to-clear that this is not our permanent abode. And yet there are also so many manifestations of God’s grace and kindness even while living amidst fallenness: Wrestling is to Iowa as football is to Texas. So when high school student Joel Northrup […]
Read More Grab Bag“But Daaa-dddddy” ranks as one of the all-time great whines. “But God” ranks as the all-time great hope. Think about it. Can you conceive any dilemma for which there is no possibility of intervention from God? Can you conjure up the image of any burden that God is inadequate to carry for you? Can you […]
Read More But God…Jonathan Edwards explores one of the reasons an individual might be caught in a state of depression: If you live very much in spiritual darkness, and without the comfortable presence of God, it may be this is the cause. If you complain that you have but little sweet communion with God, that you seem to […]
Read More If you live in spiritual darkness…Prayer is not a manipulative tool by which we receive our wishes and desires. Our wants may be godly or they may be ungodly. In either case, prayer is not a wishing-well tool to access those wants. The example of Christ demonstrates that God sometimes answers our petitions with, “No:” There are, no doubt, passages […]
Read More No guaranteed answers to prayerBlogger Ian Vaillancourt recently wrote: Give us men! This is what our world needs. Men who follow Christ and lead in the home and in the church…by laying down their lives for the men and women they lead. Give us men! Give us churches filled with these kinds of men who show the beauty of […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers(2/13/11)The audio from the Sola Conference this weekend at Countryside Bible Church. With the list of speakers, it was something of a small foretaste of the Shepherds’ Conference next month. Download it here.
Read More Sola Conference audioYesterday, Tim Challies began an interview with John MacArthur with five questions. Today he posted MacArthur’s responses to the second five questions. A sample: How can we best critique people who are “in our camp” and yet believe things different from us? Or behave in ways we do not appreciate? How can we know where […]
Read More Tim Challies: 5 More Questions with John MacArthur
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