The Songs of Advent (Part 2): The Song of Heaven (Luke 2:13-14)

This is the second in a three part Advent sermon series, “The Songs of Advent,” that I am preaching at a local church in town.
If you were not here last week, we began a three-week advent series from the first two chapters of the Gospel of Luke entitled: “The Songs of Advent.” Last week we [...]

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The Songs of Advent (Part 1): The Song of Humility (Luke 1:46-55)

This is the first in a three part Advent sermon series, “The Songs of Advent,” that I am preaching at a local church in town.
As we find ourselves in the midst of this Advent season, it is the words of Psalm 126:3 that best sum up what this time of year is all about: “The [...]

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Hunting Tiger Woods

An excellent blog post here by C.J. Mahaney about Tiger Woods.
An excerpt:
Hunted by the Media
As expected, the allegations of adultery involving a public figure are attracting a media pile-on. This is a big story with a big audience and it’s a story that will not disappear soon. Tiger Woods is being hunted by the media.
But let [...]

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Warning to Professing Christians

Watch this video. It could be of eternal value for your life over the next 4 minutes.

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The Reformed Pastor – Quoteables (Part 1)

I’ve been working through Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor, and it is excellent. This book is absolutely a must read for any one in pastoral or anyone pursuing pastoral ministry.
Many of today’s contemporary and popular books on pastoral ministry jump right into techniques and gimmicks that resemble that of a CEO than a minister of [...]

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Violent Devotion

Deuteronomy 6:4-5
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
As I was reading the first two verses of the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) in Hebrew yesterday morning, I was struck by the last word used in verse 5. The following is the Hebrew [...]

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Christ Our Righteousness (Matthew 4:1-11)

A sermon that I preached a few weeks back on Matthew 4:1-11.
Please turn with me to the Gospel of Matthew 4:1-11.
Primarily with a Jewish audience in mind, Matthew writes His Gospel to testify concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who is Israel’s long awaited Messiah. He is the one that the prophets of old spoke and wrote [...]

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God’s Firemen

A great thought from Steve on evangelism and apologetics:
Many victims of fire die in their sleep–overcome by smoke inhalation. Oblivious to the fire. Oblivious to the peril. They don’t even know that they are dying–until it’s too late to flee the flames.
A Christian is like a sleeper in a burning apartment complex. God awakened him. [...]

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Quotables

All religions except the Christian are autosoteric…[They all] come in the end to an appeal to the will, the wisdom and the power of man. – Herman Bavinck

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Secret Gender; Or, How to Permanently Mess Up Your Child

Just read this disturbing article about a couple in Sweden who are keeping their child’s gender a secret.

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