From the blog this week: 6 Reasons Christians Should be Readers Bookend Your Day with the Bible “We know this to be true on a cosmic, grand scale. But is it true for our twenty-four-hour days? If God is the Alpha and the Omega of our universe, why should his Word not be the Alpha…
6 Reasons Christians Should Be Readers
It’s been a long day. You’ve completed your daily tasks at work, ate your dinner, enjoyed time with your family and put the kids to bed. Now, it’s your “me time.” What should you do? Find a new series on Netflix? Play a new video game? Imagine sitting in a crowded waiting room at the…
Growing in Grace- Links 7/19
From the blog the week: Biblical Evidence for the Deity of Christ. Living in the Bodies We Have and Not the Ones We Don’t “I worshipped the form I couldn’t have. I became a slave to the body I wanted, counting calories, straightening my hair, trying every new diet with a hashtag and eliminating every…
Biblical Evidence for the Deity of Christ
The last post in our study of Great Doctrines of the Bible by Martyn Lloyd-Jones examined the Incarnation. Today’s post provides biblical evidence for the deity of Christ (chapter 24, vol. 1 of Great Doctrines). 8 Biblical Demonstrations of the Deity of Christ MLJ states that the biblical evidence for the deity of Christ is…
Growing in Grace- Links 7/12
From the blog this week: Unshakable Joy in the Pit of Despair What’s it like to follow Jesus in North Korea? “Of the 300,000 believers in North Korea, nearly one-quarter are in prison for their faith.” I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go To Heaven The boy who co-wrote The Boy Who Came Back From…
Unshakable Joy in the Pit of Despair
You have put more joy in my heart then they have when their grain and wine abound. In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. -Psalm 4:7-8 I went to church camp every summer during high school. The five days at camp would be…
Growing in Grace- Links 7/4
From the blog this week: Walk in Wisdom for the Days are Evil An $8.2 Million Judgment and $8.2 Million in Royalties Given Away: God’s Sovereign Grace in Your Life and Mine Wow! What a story…be sure to check this out! “See how God continues to use me going to jail and losing my job…
Walk in Wisdom for the Days are Evil
Ephesians 5:15-16, “Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.” Paul begins Ephesians 4 with an appeal to “walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called.” He spends much of the rest to…
Growing in Grace- Links 6/28
From the blog this week: The Incarnation How LGBT Pride Month Became a Religious Holiday “We seem more concerned with losing the volunteer for the Sunday-morning nursery or the regular tithe in the offering plate than we do with the souls of those in open and unrepentant rebellion against God. We also seem more worried…
The Incarnation
One of the most beautiful, mysterious, and yet mind-boggling teachings of Scripture is that God put on flesh and dwelt among us. Every year at Christmas we celebrate the miracle that the second person of the Trinity “became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). Without such a miracle, there would simply be no hope…