I have loved the psalms for years! It all started about the time my life became more predicamentarian (marked by predicaments). I had lived the lived the insulatarian (insulated from predicaments) life throughout my childhood and teen years. When the markets crashed, my parents took the hit. When medical bills shot the budget, they handled [...]
Suffering has value because it inclines us to thoughtful solitude (Lam. 3:28; Jer. 15:17; Psa. 4:4)
God has made man a social creature but sin tends to morph this blessing into a soul-twisting curse. For many, the very thought of prolonged seasons of quiet and solitary meditation is an intolerable disruption of their desperate need for [...]
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My daughter and son-in-law announced to Lanette and me several weeks ago that we are going to have a grandchild in April, 2009. It’s been a terribly difficult bit of news to sit on while waiting for their permission to tell the world. I’m beginning to think that this is one of the real reasons [...]
Young evangelicals and young fundamentalists are reading Piper’s books, digesting Grudem’s theology, and attending Southern Seminary. Why is passion for God’s sovereignty and gloy taking the youthful church by storm? Maybe, because there is a cause.
Collin Hansen does a pretty good job of documenting Calvinism’s remarkable comeback. Men, movements, schools, and churches representing [...]
I just heard the end of a message by Colin Smith on Psalm 130. He was developing something of a theology of suffering and made the profound observation that Christian’s pain is no less poignant than that of unbelievers. “When a Christian hits his thumb with a hammer it hurts just as much as when [...]
5:00 am – woke up, rolled out, made coffee, hit the study
7:30 am – grabbed computer, went to the church to print 300 pages of handouts for Adult class
8:30 am – made coffee for the the addicts who need the stuff in order to keep mentally stimulated in SS.
9:30 am – 2nd of 10 week [...]
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