Do not grow weary of doing good

On a very limited number of occasions — once, maybe twice — I have felt like I had reached the limits of my physical abilities. My arms and legs trembling with weariness, I was nearing the end of what my body could do. On a few of occasions I’ve watched sporting events and seen athletes […]

Today’s Quote – Idolatry (Keller)

Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods: What many people call “psychological problems” are simple issues of idolatry. Perfectionism, chronic indecisiveness, the need to control the lives of others — all of these stem from making good things into idols that then drive us into the ground as we try to appease them. Idols dominate our lives.… The […]

Grab bag

Some random posts and articles that I’ve accumulated recently from around the ‘net: Charles Spurgeon meditates on walking with like Christ (this classic book, Morning and Evening can be downloaded in its entirety for reading at your leisure). Luther posts the 95 theses (if you’ve never really understood what the theses were all about…) Tim […]

Sunday Leftovers (11/15/09)

Do we know the strength and power of God in our lives? Do we know the strength and power of God in our praying? Much of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is concerned with the matter of strength for living for the Ephesians (e.g., 1:19-20; 3:16, 20; 6:10ff). Among the truths exposed by Paul are: […]

Men’s Conference

Our men’s conference is now complete. It was a wonderful morning with Tom Pennington. He spoke three times and participated in a Q & A. All the audio and a number of pictures are now available. The links are below: Audio A Man After God’s Own Heart God’s Design for Marriage, Pt. 1 God’s Design […]

Today’s Quote – Anxiety (Elliot)

Elisabeth Elliot: Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now. (HT: Christianity Today)

Reflections on freedom and a week of remembrances

The past couple of weeks we have heard much about freedom. This week the world recognized the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Our country also remembered the veterans who fought on her behalf, providing protection and freedom for all her citizens. And last week we watched in horror the images of […]

The marks of manhood

With this weekend being our men’s conference — “The Reason You Live,” I’ve been thinking about a variety of topics related to men and manhood. In the course of my thinking and perusing files, I came across this list of qualities compiled by Al Mohler several years ago about the indicators that a transition has […]

Today’s Quote – Prayer (Ryle)

J. C. Ryle: “A Call to Prayer:” Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too. (HT: […]

Today’s Quote – Anxiety (Mueller)

George Mueller: The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Today’s Quote – Prayer (Mueller)

George Mueller: For more than half a century, I have never known one day when I had not more business than I could get through. For 40 years, I have had annually about 30,000 letters, and most of these have passed through my own hands. I have nine assistants always at work corresponding in German, […]

Book Review: John Calvin

Title: John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology Editor: Burk Parsons Contributors Include: Jay Adams, Jerry Bridges, Sinclair Ferguson, Michael Horton, Steve Lawson, John MacArthur, Philip Ryken Publisher: Reformation Trust, 2008; 257 pp. $19.00 Recommendation (4-star scale): This year, in honor of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth, I have focused more […]

Sunday Leftovers (11/8/09)

When we do not pray, there are a multiplicity of reasons that we offer for our waywardness: busy-ness weariness apathy and distractions lack of knowledge about what (or how) to pray sin May I suggest also that one primary reason we do not pray is because we either do not know or do not believe […]

Today’s Quote – God’s family (Lloyd-Jones)

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Unsearchable Riches of Christ: …as Christians let us always remember that the Name that is on us is the Name of God, ‘from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named’. What matters is no longer the family of David, no longer this tribe or that tribe, no longer […]

Another violent tragedy

I didn’t have my radio on most of the day yesterday, so I heard no news during the day. On my drive home I was listening to a sermon, so I likewise missed the news. So when I got home one of the girls said something about Fort Hood, and I was confused about what […]