Having trouble memorizing Scripture?

Do you have trouble memorizing Scripture? Or remembering what you memorized last week, never mind last year? So do I; so does John Piper. How can you be more effective remembering what you’ve learned? Repetition. Review, review, review. There is no way to memorize Scripture that keeps you from losing it. Some people don’t lose […]

Joni’s new book

Joni Eareckson Tada has written a new book entitled, A Place of Healing which will be released in September. It will also be available then in audio format; the first hour of the book is available for a free download now, through Christian Audio. The book is described this way: In this eloquent account of […]

Sunday Leftovers (7/18/10)

Human anger is almost always portrayed in Scripture to be something unwise, foolish and ungodly. And even when men exhibit genuinely righteous anger, it is always prone to degrading into ungodly, unrighteous anger. A few observations about anger from Scripture: Anger, like every sin, is the result of allowing the flesh to rule one’s mind […]

Reading Song of Solomon

Today we began reading the Song of Solomon — a book that for many centuries has been read as typical of Christ’s love for His bride, the church. However, that is not how Israelites would have read the book 1000 years before the time of Christ. And, since the best way to read and understand […]

Life sentence? Don’t waste it.

Continuing the theme that he explained in his book, Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper visited Angola Prison last fall and encouraged the believers there not to waste their life sentence. I typically don’t watch videos like this — but when someone gave me a preview copy of this a couple of months ago, I […]

What did the temple look like?

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to step inside Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem? It may surprise you to learn that Jesus himself never had this experience, since he never entered the Temple itself. Read the rest of Justin Taylor’s post (with drawings!) here…

Who’s imitating you?

I remember the first time that I really noticed my first-born copying me. It was a seemingly insignificant activity — it was the way she put a coke can on an end table — but it had the markings of her father all over it. At that moment I not only thought to pray for […]

Enjoy life with your God-given wife

Today there are many helpful resources to help couples in their marriages. My shelves are filled with books and resources and I have several large files full of additional articles and resources. And of all the resources you might be drawn to for marriage, one author that might not immediately spring to mind is Solomon. […]

Put off and put on

In Ephesians 4:22-24, Paul explains one of the foundational principles for sanctification in the Christian life: the believer is to put off (take off, stop) any activity that speaks of the ungodly life of unbelievers and the old, unredeemed man, and he is to put on (begin and continue) the activities of that reflect the […]

Sunday Leftovers (7/11/10)

There is no place for lying in the life of the believer because there is no place for lying in God. It is not necessary for God to lie (Num. 23:19), and it is impossible for God to lie (Tt. 1:2; Heb. 6:18). There is nothing in God that is ever attracted to any form […]

Grab bag

Al Mohler leaves the radio, but will begin a new podcast in September. Lessons learned… Is technism the solution to our problems? John Dyer says “no.” I agree. John Bloom is concerned about ministry and money. Not the use of the money, but the desire for it. He suggests that the grace of Christ we […]

The Radical Question

David Platt asks what he calls “The Radical Question.” Here is the question: What is Jesus worth to you? Do you believe he is worth abandoning everything for? Do you really believe Jesus is so good, so satisfying, and so rewarding that you will leave all you own and all you are to find your […]

Reading Chronicles

This morning we begin reading the book of 1 Chronicles. Often this book is pointed to as one of the more difficult to read because of its lengthy genealogies; moreover, many fail to see the relevance of both books of Chronicles. Even while reading these lengthy lists of names, we do well to remember that […]

NANC exam complete!

My NANC exam is complete! The packet goes in the mail tomorrow. Many thanks to GBC for the time to finish the exam, for Keith’s helpful interaction and comments about it, and for God’s grace to complete it!

Reading Amos

This week we are reading the book of Amos — one of the minor prophets of the Old Testament. [Remember the minor prophets are not considered minor in importance, but minor (or shorter) in length than the major prophets.] Perhaps the saddest verses in the book reflecting the repeated theme of judgment are found in […]