Reblogged from One Beat Blog: Coffee and leadership go hand in hand. Sometimes, the best leadership advice that I could give you would be to drink a cup of coffee. I don’t know if there are any leadership books out there that revolve around coffee but I firmly believe that I could be the first … Continue reading »
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Wasted Depression
Reblogged from Thistletown Baptist Church: Depression should not be wasted. As a teenager I was morose and deeply depressed. I wrote morose things and believed that if the world knew the real me I would be even more lonely than I was. The depressed teen years were followed by the depressed twenties. It went away … Continue reading »
5 Signs Waiting has Weakened Your Faith – Paul Tripp / Gospel Coalition
I found this article by Paul Tripp to be a good encouragement to me personally. It is entitled, 5 Signs Waiting Has Weakened Your Faith. I pray that it encourages you as well: When God asks you to wait, what happens to your spiritual muscles? While you wait, do your spiritual muscles grow bigger and … Continue reading »
What Can I Do in Fifty Days?
This is the back brace I’ve been wearing since October 25, 2011. Day in and day out finds me suiting up to strengthen and protect my back. As a result of spinal fusion surgery, I need all the support I can get. However, this brace is a real pain in the back! Often when I … Continue reading »
When the Drugs Actually Work… (Learning to Be Still)
I came across the blog, Learning to Be Still, while doing some reading on Depression. I subscribed to the blog via email and received this post a couple of days ago. I reproduced it in it’s entirety, but I would encourage you to go to the blog and catch a flavor of the author’s posts. … Continue reading »
R.I.P. John Stott
Vacation Posts: Verses to Ponder
I am taking a vacation with the kids during this time of their Spring Break from school. As such, I won’t be posting my usual thoughts. I’ve scheduled several blog posts with favorite passages of Scripture that have meant a lot to me in the past. I hope you find some of these encouraging: Sympathetic … Continue reading »
Great Music for 2011 & beyond: Indelible Grace Music
I have really enjoyed my introduction to Indelible Grace Music through Friends of the Blog (Challies). Today I have been listening to my album on iTunes. I then went over to the igracemusic website and am currently listening through all their albums online. If you are looking for relevant, theologically correct enjoyable music, Indelible Grace … Continue reading »
“Scripture Glasses” ~ John Calvin
“…[God] added the light of his word in order that he might make himself known unto salvation…” For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when … Continue reading »
A Real Man Loves Jesus Above All Else – Dr.Charles Ware, Real Man 2010 conf
Friday evening, September 24 and Saturday, September 25 found me and 7 others from Calvary Baptist attending the Real Man 2010 conference hosted at Faith Baptist Church in Lafayette, IN. Dr. Charles Ware, president of Crossroads Bible College was one of the plenary speakers. He spoke first Friday night on the topic: A Real Man … Continue reading »
