June 2012
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Cherishing Jesus Through Cancer
Thursday, May 31st, A.D. 2012
Dear Saints,
I want to take this opportunity to share with you a recent opportunity that the Lord has brought to our family. On Wednesday morning (May 30th) I found myself at my doctor’s office due to an abnormal growth within my body. By midmorning, I had an ultrasound on that area. By late afternoon, I received the call from my doctor. The Lord’s design for my...
May 2012
Reminder on the Lord's Day
Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter 15: Of Repentance unto Life
1: Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the Gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ.
“In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which...”
– Abraham Kuyper
Duty, Honor, Country - General MacArthur
Duty. Honor. Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn… .
The unbelievers will say they are but words… . But these are some of the things...
Westminster Confession of Faith - Adoption
CHAPTER 12 - Of Adoption
1. All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption,a by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God,b have his name put upon them,c receive the Spirit of adoption,d have access to the throne of grace with boldness,e are enabled to cry,...
““Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim thro’ this barren...”
– Hymn: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
April 2012
“I would rather have a boy of mine stand high in his studies than high in...”
– Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to his son Kermit
“The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight,...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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March 2012
“The pastor is NOT a spiritual doctor. The tension in his work is between the...”
– William Still, “The Work of the Pastor”
“People have misunderstood me for years b/c I would not dance their evangelistic...”
– William Still, The Work of the Pastor
“For a close, remember this, that there are no Christians in all the world...”
– Thomas Brooks, Works (quoted in Quest for Godliness by JI Packer)
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Dr Jon Payne's Pastoral Letters Regarding The...
Dr. Jon Payne’s pastoral letters to his congregation regarding the Lord’s day:
The Lord’s Day, Recovering a Lost Blessing
http://grace-pca.net/the-lord-s-day-recovering-a-lost-blessing
Morning and Evening Worship
http://grace-pca.net/morning-evening-worship
The Market Day of the Soul
http://grace-pca.net/the-market-day-of-the-soul
7 Good Reasons to Attend Evening...
A Lord's Day Testimony
“I have found by a strict and diligent observation that a due observance of the duties of the Lord’s Day hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time, and the week that hath been so begun hath been blessed and prosperous to me; and on the other side, when I have been negligent of the duties of the day, the rest of the week has been unsuccessful and unhappy in my own...
Baxter's Wisdom on Man and the Lord's Day
Richard Baxter with a constructive evangelical principle of judgement regarding the Lord’s Day,
“I will first look at a man’s positive duties on the Lord’s Day, how he heareth and readeth and prayeth and spendeth his time, and how he instructeth and helpeth his family; and if he be diligent in seeking God, and ply his heavenly business, I shall be very backward to judge...
Leadership character: A six-part series by West...
Leadership character: Introduction
Leadership character: The role of courage
Leadership character: The role of integrity
Leadership character: The role of selflessness
Leadership character: The role of empathy
Leadership character: The role of collaboration
Leadership character: The role of reflection
The character of the Fourth Commandment - Matthew...
‘The sabbath,’ is a sacred and divine institution; but we must receive and embrace it as a privilege and a benefit, not as a task and a drudgery. FIRST, God never designed it to be an imposition upon us, and therefore we must not make it so to ourselves…. SECONDLY, God did design it to be an advantage to us, and so we must make and improve it…. He had much more regard for our souls....
Wise Words on Good & Bad Tweeting
@tonyreinke interviews @rayortlund. Here’s an exchange:
In your forthcoming commentary on Proverbs you write, “Twitter and blogs and emails would be cleared of much conflict if we humbled our opinions before Christ. What are we here for, really? What does God want to be stirred up in our hearts? He says, stir one another up to love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24).” Unpack that for a moment. What,...
“It is the duty and glory of a Christian to rejoice in the Lord every day, but...”
– Thomas Brooks, Works
“Hail thou that art highly favoured of God, thou golden spot of the week, thou...”
– George Swinnock, Works
“that if we are to produce a society of educated people, fitted to preserve their...”
WatchManhood by Hazardous Journeys
Maturity and courage comes to those who seek it.
(This is the third film of the Hazardous Journeys Trilogy.)
WatchRisk by Hazardous Journeys
The proving of leadership through adversity.
(This is the second film of the Hazardous Journeys Trilogy)
WatchDominion by Hazardous Journeys
To explore and declare the glory of God in creation.
(This is the first film of the Hazardous Journeys Trilogy)
February 2012
“I am the Lord who sanctifies you.”
“I am the Lord who sanctifies you.” (Leviticus 20:8)
“I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from the peoples…. You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.”
Beloved in God the Father.—“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”— Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit...
Of Providence
Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter 5: Of Providence
2: Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly; yet, by the same providence, He orders them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.
January 2012
"Two for the both of you" →
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Dr. RC Sproul on Retirement
Work is a blessing whereby we are able to mirror and reflect the character of God because God is a working God. God rests, but He never retires.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in...”
– Ephesians 1:3-6
“Christ did not offer his atonement in vain, but ‘he shall see of the...”
– C. H. Spurgeon on God’s love for His people when try are enslaved by and to the world
“His kingdom cannot fail; He rules o’er earth and heav’n;
The keys...”
– Rejoice, the Lord Is King (Trinity Hymnal 310)
“Let us learn a lesson from the two travelers to Emmaus. Let us speak of Jesus,...”
– (J.C. Ryle)
“Be diligent in action. Put all your irons into the fire. Use every faculty for...”
– C.H. Spurgeon (ht: Matt Perman of What’s Best Next)
False Teachers (2 Timothy 4)
Robert Bruce’s 16th Century preaching in Scotland allowed the people to note a contrast between one who preaches with authority and the others who preach for the smiles of the congregation. Robert Murray McCheyne cautioned people to follow the word of God rather than those professing to be God’s ministers: “A minister will make a poor saviour in the day of wrath…. You need to have your hand on the...
“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which...”
– Abraham Kuyper
“Victorious saints are whole-souled people possessing “a different...”
– Twitter.com/betransformed