“Hear my voice according to your steadfast love.” – Psalm 119.149a This verse brought me much hope and rejoicing earlier this week. But, how do we do this in our counseling of one another. King David, the Psalmist, had written just verses before about a fervency in prayer – day and night. In this [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review: Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor (D.A. Carson)
The lives of people teach us how to live today. This is one of the reasons I think everyone should read history and biographies. As I was searching through our church’s library one day I came across this book, written by D. A. Carson, about his father. I love Carson’s writings as does my husband [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Much & Link Love (Nov 1) and November!
Well, thought I might tie these two posts together since November 1 falls on a Monday. 1. Great weekend: the ocean, 31 miles, mahi mahi tacos, and a Gator win! 2. Getting organized and down-sizing. 3. Love seeing old friends: they are rare! 4. Love talking about what God is doing in my life. 5. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review: Come Ye Children (Spurgeon)
I wonder what it would be like to watch a video of Charles Spurgeon preaching? We will never know thanks to the delays of technology – but thankful for the preserving of his words and how he continually spurs us on with his grip and understanding of Scripture and the application of it to the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »On Complementarianism
Jonathan Leeman has a fabulous article in the new 9Marks journal on relationships between men and women (complementarianism/egalitarianism). I was just able to teach on biblical womanhood at a youth camp with my church. Honestly, one session went extremely well, one session could have gone better. I wish I had some of this before I [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Don't Waste Your Summer!
You can’t tell by the weather here in RDU today (or from what I hear in the ville as well), but we are more than halfway through the merry little month of May. Most schools are our or just about finishing up finals. College graduations have come and gone; so has Mother’s Day. Things are [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Connecting Church & Home Conference
Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY, is hosting a conference that will help you and your ministry team get a picture of what this could look like in your church. Dr. Randy Stinson, Dean of the School of Church Ministries, has brought together a team of experts on church, family, ministry, and culture including Dr. Albert [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review: Collaborate
In light of the title of the book, Collaborate is a collaborative effort by many ministers in the field of children, family, and student ministry to bring the best of the best of their ideas to the table. Chanley, at Southeast in Louisville, KY, put together these short chapters filled with excellent events you can [...]
Read the rest of this entry »True Woman Conference: Nancy Leigh DeMoss (Last Session)
This last session for the Conference is on Deborah:Judges 4-51-3The stage is set; it describes a cycle that is repeated at least 7 times in Judges: Disobedience. Discipline. Desperation DeliveranceGod’s chosen covenant people were being disobedient. God’s is concerned with the homes of His people. The people of Israel do what is evil in the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »True Woman Conference Chattanooga – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Titus 3 reminds us that we ourselves were once foolish, slaves, hating one another. Do we ever see ourselves in that light? We will never love the gospel enough until we see ourselves as great sinners. And thankfully there is the next verse – he saved us – not because of our works, but according [...]
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