Archive for February, 2010

Tomorrow, you will stand before our church and the presence of God, as we dedicate you to the Lord.  We have dedicated you already, without the agreement of the church and in a less formal way.  Upon both of your births, when you came up from the water, we released you to God with thanksgiving.  [...]

This is an excellent piece from Tullian Tchividjian on gospel centered ministry.  Here is an excerpt:
Since Jesus secured my pardon and absorbed the Father’s wrath on my behalf so that “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,” how does that impact my longing for approval, my tendency to be controlling, [...]

In this article Marvin Olasky interviews Anthony Bradley, a black minister who grew up in the United Methodist Church.  It’s a worthy read.

Is it good to “live in the moment”?  This phrase has been used in at least two different ways, and my response is determined by the meaning intended by the phrase “live in the moment.”
Sometimes what is meant by the exhortation to “live in the moment” is the synonymic exhortation: wherever you are, be all [...]

Unfortunately, this is truth is not universally allowed and maintained by such as call themselves christians, anymore.  Not by a long shot.
“It is evident, by both scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, eternally, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy; that he stands in no need of, cannot be profited by, or receive anything from [...]

…because i love God.

DugDownDeep_Carnahan.mov from Covenant Life Church on Vimeo.
“Does anyone fault [a man who loves his wife] for noting her every like and dislike? Is it clinical for him to desire to know the thoughts or longings of her heart?” Or to study her every move? Or to learn the language she [...]

read it.

Hebrew 3:12-14:
12a Take care, brothers, 12b lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13a But exhort one another every day, 13b as long as it is called “today,” 13c that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 [...]

On Page 76 of N.D. Wilson’s Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl (my favorite book of the year):
In Virginia, there lived a man named Roy Sullivan.  He was struck by lightning seven times.  I’m told rough odds of this happening are out of 1.6 x 10 to the 25th (sixteen septillion).  Which is like one man winning [...]

or is it about gospel? Read This.  I’ll let you know what I think about the book after I read it.
(HT: Vitamin Z)