Just a short note to my friends at Calvary Baptist in Leesburg: I’ve been studying 1 Peter 1 for my upcoming sermon Sunday night in our ongoing study of Peter’s epistle. My sermon will be entitled, “Salvation & Suffering: Where Does the Joy Come in?” Sometimes I just want to say that I didn’t sign … Continue reading »
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Joni Eareckson Tada: A Place of Healing
ChristianAudio is offering a FREE download of the first hour of Joni Eareckson Tada‘s new book, A Place of Healing. From ChristianAudio: In this eloquent account of her current struggle with physical pain, Joni Eareckson Tada offers her perspective on divine healing, God’s purposes, and what it means to live with joy. Over four decades … Continue reading »
Christian Contentment: Its appearance in the midst of affliction
I am reading The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, written by Puritan author, Jeremiah Burroughs. I am reading it, not because I desire to but because I need to. I posted Burroughs’ definition of Christian Contentment here recently, and currently reading his thoughts on what he means by the “quiet” of the heart. He gives … Continue reading »
Loving the Church: God’s People Flourishing in God’s Family by John Crotts (review)
Recommended; 135pp, softcover From the comfort of the coffee shop comes incredible truths and application regarding the church. John Crotts writes Loving the Church from the viewpoint of five different individuals, all who met in a coffee shop, in various stages of life and ministry as believers. All had, initially, various views of the necessity … Continue reading »
How Deep the Father’s Love – Stuart Townend
Few songs have impacted my personal worship as this one has. I hope to see us sing it soon & regularly in our church’s worship: Stuart Townend shares the process behind the writing of this wonderful worship song:
Christian Contentment: What Is It?
Jeremiah Burroughs, puritan of the early 1600′s, wrote in his work The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, this definition of Christian contentment: Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition. What a task this is for us … Continue reading »
International Grief Ministry Endorses Book by Noted Counselor Robert Kellemen
This was the headline from Christian NewsWire about Dr. Bob Kellemen, (someone I’ve enjoyed getting to know, read and whose resources I enjoy promoting): WAKE FOREST, NC, July 13 /Christian Newswire Author Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC, has released the GriefShare edition of his new book for people facing loss and grief. Christian counselor Dr. … Continue reading »
Suffering According to God’s Will – 1 Peter 4:19
Sunday evening services at Calvary Baptist Church have been focusing on the Apostle Peter, as he is found in Scripture. Last Sunday we began the study of his first epistle, 1 Peter. Our senior pastor suggested that we read 1 Peter at least once a week through this study in an effort to maintain familiarity … Continue reading »
The Reformed Pastor: Co-blogging Richard Baxter’s work
This post will explore Baxter’s writing in chapter one of the Reformed Pastor, The Oversight of Ourselves, part two, entitled, “The Motives to This Oversight“. Having already explained The Nature of This Oversight, Baxter speaks to the things that should “awaken [us] to this duty”. I would like to lay them out numerically, as Richard … Continue reading »
