“When you are at the end of your rope … When you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you … When you are torn apart with hunger …”–these are times Jesus says the life of God can take deep root (Matthew 5:1-6). These are times when desire for God, passion if you will, […]
[Listening to: Directed Youth – The Crucified – Take Up Your Cross/Nailed (01:58)] I just finished reading Simplicity by Mark Salomon. It only took me four days to read it, and I can’t remember the last time I was so engulfed in a book. I’ve been a fan of Stavesacre and The Crucified since 1996,
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DISCLAIMER: This blog was written before I became a 5-point Calvinist. In this blog entry I quoted A.W. Tozer saying, “it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.” Tozer is an Arminian and therefore believes that the atonement is not limited to the elect, but that the cross “would”
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I just read something in Disciplines of a Godly Man that goes along perfectly with what Pastor Sam said yesterday about 1 Thessalonians 4:11b-12a–“…work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside…” (NKJV). Kent Hughes makes an important point, although most of this excerpt is
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over
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I am overjoyed at hearing about friends who have been receiving clear direction from the Lord lately. There is a clear distinction between His voice, when we just KNOW it’s Him, and the ‘confirmation’ and ‘peace about it’ that we produce for ourselves through rationalization and reasoning—when we consult other people or search the Scriptures
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I’m finally all moved in! Oh, and guess what! I get to drive through a roundabout every day!!!
Here is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent to a friend that I thought would make a good blog entry. I read an interesting chapter in Church History in Plain Language about the denominational theory of the church. It kind of threw everything I thought on its head. Denomination comes from a root meaning
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A couple weeks ago my friend J.B. was diagnosed with cancer. Prior to his diagnosis, someone from church had a ‘word’ for him that he was supposed to start journaling, but that this journal wasn’t for himself, but it was to bless other people and help them through their issues. So he started blogging. His
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5. Occasional victories over sin are not mortification. There are two occasions or seasons in which a man who is fighting with a particular sin may seem to have mortified it, but has not in reality. (i) When that sin breaks out sadly and seriously in a way that greatly disturbs his peace, terrifies his
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