The Briefing produced by Matthias Media put out an excellent article entitled, “Borers in the Pulpit”. They included 6 areas that every pastor should address: Purpose, Passion, Energy, Length (so sermon), Illustrations and Application. Below is an excerpt from the article, I strongly encourage you to read the entire thing at their website! And if … Continue reading »
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Suffering and the Sovereignty of God: a continued conversation.
The connection between suffering and God’s ordaining it to be is being driven home, not only in my life, but in the life of the congregants in my church. Today I will visit with hurting parents suffering over their young child whose life is held delicately in the hand of God. I do not know … Continue reading »
Grace upon Grace
A break from the usual for a personal post. Grace was overwhelming evident today in our morning worship hour. Our congregation surprised my family with an all-expense paid vacation to Florida during the week of Spring Break! This is quite a feat seeing there is 7 of us total. We will be staying in the … Continue reading »
A Link & Update
A Link: Unashamed Workman has a great video clip under his latest post entitled, “A Little Friday Fun“. It features Alistair Begg answering some “difficult” questions. Also seen are James MacDonald – it all took place backstage at the Preach the Word conference. An Update: Last week I was at Faith Baptist‘s Biblical Counseling Training … Continue reading »
Books to fit into the reading schedule – 2009
Here are some other titles I would like to get read this year. I don’t know that I will get them all read, but they certainly would prove to be beneficial: Critical Stages of Biblical Counseling by Jay Adams How to Help People Change by Jay Adams Trusting God by Jerry Bridges Down, But Not … Continue reading »
Biblical Counseling Conference: Thursday, Day 4
Today I left a message on the message board in the lobby of Faith Baptist Church publicizing this blog – and WordPress suffered a meltdown. God is sovereign! What is he teaching me through this? My blog’s appearance was totally disjointed and I found out many others were as well. I’m happy to see things … Continue reading »
Biblical Counseling Training Conference: Full Day #1
I’ll list the titles of the sessions I’ve had thus far and comment on the one that impacted me the most. When attending a conference such as this – one designed for the attendee to take the material back to the “counseling situation” – one often finds himself (myself) “counseling” themselves. As it is often … Continue reading »
A Link & Quote
A Link: The folks over at Matthais Media have been posting some interesting articles on evangelism. Here is one that deals with two main reasons why Christians don’t share the Gospel: rejection and lack of confidence. They expound on both of those “excuses” in a very positive way. Check it out. A Quote: I’ve picked … Continue reading »
New “Global Preaching Bible”
I read with some interest this article at christianpost.com: “Church Network ‘Launches’ Sermon-Packed Bible“. I’ll provide a couple of excerpts and give you my thoughts. At the end of this post you’ll see more links to check this Bible and organization out for yourself. The Second Billion Network has “launched” a Bible featuring sermons from … Continue reading »
A Link & Update
A Link: CPYU (the Center for Parent / Youth Understanding) has a Free book offer at their bookshelf. All you have to do is leave a comment stating what was the best book that you read in 2008. You might as well enter, if you win you get to choose the book from a “long … Continue reading »
