Sunday Leftovers (3/1/09)

In his book Victorious Christians You Should Know, Warren Wiersbe tells of the letter Andrew Bonar wrote to his brother during the Kilsyth Revival of 1839-40.  Bonar lamented that there had not yet been significant change among the people, “…and I believe I am to blame.  I work more than I pray.”  Later he would […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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