Julian Freeman

The Toronto Pastors Conference is only days away… if you’re not coming, you’ll be missing out!

When we were planning the conference and we first invited Mike Bullmore to come I thought to myself ‘A lot of people probably won’t know who Mike Bullmore is. So how can we fix that?’

One step we took was to ask a few friends for recommendations and endorsements of Mike. We asked last year’s conference speaker, Mark Dever, along with pastor Joshua Harris and professor, speaker, and leader of the Gospel Coalition, Don Carson. Here’s what each of them had to say about we should listen carefully to Mike Bullmore:

Don Carson said: “Mike Bullmore is not as well known as some because he has written relatively little — but he is one of the most engaging, penetrating, insightful preachers I know. Moreover, the quality of his mentoring of young men in the church he serves is simply stellar.”

 

 

Joshua Harris wrote: “Mike Bullmore is one of the best kept secrets in the larger body of Christ today. He is a masterful, passionate, precise teacher of God’s word. I’ve described him as a cross between John Piper and CJ Mahaney. And I can’t think of a higher compliment to pay a preacher.”

 

 

Mark Dever told us: “Mike Bullmore is a pastor who has both been instrumental in beginning a new congregation, and has faithfully pastored a congregation for years. He’s not only taught preaching in the classroom, but he’s mentored young preachers and pastors for years. I’m excited that pastors in Toronto will get the opportunity to enjoy Mike’s humble wisdom and his careful, encouraging preaching.”

 

 

 

To all that I simply say, that is why I can’t wait to learn from Mike Bullmore! Make sure you register now if you haven’t yet!

 

June 10th, 2010 | Tags: DA Carson, Joshua Harris, Mark Dever, Mike Bullmore, Sermons, Toronto Pastors Conference, TPC, TPF | Category: Toronto Pastors Fellowship | 1189Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/toronto-pastors-fellowship/wait-learn-mike-bullmoreWhy+I+Can%27t+Wait+to+Learn+from+Mike+Bullmore2010-06-10+18%3A59%3A25Julian+Freeman

T-minus five days to go until TPC 2010! Make sure you register now — you won’t want to miss out!

Mike Bullmore is the keynote speaker this year. In this next video of our interview with him, we asked him, ‘What happens when the gospel is not at the centre in the local church?’

June 9th, 2010 | Tags: Mike Bullmore, Toronto Pastors Conference, TPC, TPF | Category: Toronto Pastors Fellowship | 1183Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/toronto-pastors-fellowship/churches-lose-centrality-gospelWhat+Happens+When+Churches+Lose+the+Centrality+of+the+Gospel%3F2010-06-09+15%3A08%3A51Julian+Freeman

I can’t believe that the Toronto Pastors Conference is less than a week away!

Just to whet your appetite for some great time in the word (and some incentive to come if you haven’t decided yet!), here is a great compilation of resources to recommend and to pass along for pastors and those training for ministry.

Now you can download all 8 messages (all pdfs and mp3s with Q&A sessions included)  from the 2009 -2010 Toronto Pastors Fellowship monthly meetings in a single click!

So go ahead and download those messages as you get ready for TPC 2010 coming next week!

June 8th, 2010 | Tags: Mike Bullmore, Toronto Pastors Conference, TPC, TPF | Category: Toronto Pastors Fellowship | 1162Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/toronto-pastors-fellowship/resources-pastorsResources+for+Pastors2010-06-08+17%3A40%3A36Julian+Freeman

The Toronto Pastors Conference is fast approaching (June 14-16)! Have you registered yet? Not sure if you want to come? Here’s something to whet your appetite.

While I was gone on vacation, Paul posted several videos of an interview we did with Mike Bullmore looking forward to TPC ’10. Watch the videos below to find out how the gospel connects to preaching, greeting, ushering, parking lot attendants, and a love for pastoral ministry.

Don’t forget, you can register online here!

 

 

Click here to watch a few more videos from Mike Bullmore, to download sermons he’s preached, to read what other evangelical leaders have to say about him, and to see what he’ll be preaching on at TPC ’10!

June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: gospel, Mike Bullmore, TPC, TPF | Category: Toronto Pastors Fellowship | 1155Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/toronto-pastors-fellowship/mike-bullmore-interviewed-tpc-2010Mike+Bullmore+Interviewed+for+TPC+20102010-06-03+15%3A25%3A45Julian+Freeman

Mike Bullmore is the keynote speaker at this year’s Toronto Pastors Conference coming up on June 14-16. Having just heard Mike preach at the Gospel Coalition Conference in Hamilton, I’m really looking forward to hearing my brother bring the word again.

Here are some of his thoughts on the Lord’s Supper.

For more information on the Toronto Pastors Conference or to register online, check out http://TorontoPastors.org/tpc.

May 12th, 2010 | Tags: Mike Bullmore, Toronto Pastors Conference, TPC, TPF | Category: Toronto Pastors Fellowship | 1150Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/toronto-pastors-fellowship/mike-bullmore-lords-supperMike+Bullmore%3A+Why+the+Lord%27s+Supper%3F2010-05-12+13%3A00%3A32Julian+Freeman

This post is continuing the series I’m working through on redeeming your conversations and making them valuable.

You can read part 1, part 2, and part 3 before reading this, if you’d like some background.

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Some Tips on Actually ‘Going There’

Being convinced you want to redeem your conversations is one thing. Knowing how to actually do it is another thing altogether. How do you ‘go there’? Here are a few tips.

1. Have something to say. Have you read your Bible this week? What have you read that you could share?
2. Be open. Don’t ever expect a conversation (or a relationship!) to go deeper than you make it.
3. Have questions. What kinds of things could you ask that would lead to fruitful spiritual conversation? (see here for some help)
4. Approach people. Don’t sit back and wait for someone to come serve you. Target someone and engage.
5. Care. If you don’t actually care it will be pretty obvious. Developing a genuine love for people will go a long way in helping you listen carefully and speak appropriately and wisely.
6. Aim to serve. Ask yourself, ‘How can I “give grace” to the person I’m talking to?’
7. Pray. If this is a biblical command and a spiritual reality, then you can’t do it on your own. So before, during, and after your conversations.
8. Be deliberate. When you know Sunday or Wednesday is coming, prepare!

May 11th, 2010 | Tags: Conversations, friendship, Speech | Category: Christian Life | 1139Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/christian-life/tips-going-thereSome+Tips+on+Actually+%27Going+There%272010-05-11+13%3A00%3A32Julian+Freeman

Our effort to live out Deut 6.4-8 includes many conversations at the breakfast / lunch / dinner table. Here’s a little home video of one that I thought was pretty fun.

We spent breakfast this morning talking about the gospel. Thanks to Paul for the memorable little thing with the hand!

In case you can’t understand what the girls are saying, it’s ‘Christ died for our sins and was RAISED!’ (1 Corinthians 15:1-7)

May 10th, 2010 | Tags: Caitlyn, Family, gospel, Susannah | Category: Family | 1144Comments (1)http://julianfreeman.ca/family/gospel-breakfastThe+Gospel+at+Breakfast2010-05-10+16%3A33%3A38Julian+Freeman

This post is continuing the series I’m working through on redeeming your conversations and making them valuable.

You can read part 1 and part 2 before reading this, if you’d like some background.

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Learning to Be Intentional… Even If Awkward
We can learning from Pilgrim’s Progress:

‘Well, neighbour Faithful, let us leave [that topic of conversation], and talk of things that more immediately concern ourselves. Tell me now what you have met with in the Way as you came: For I know you have met with some things, or else it may be writ for a Wonder.’

Or in the Enchanted Land:

‘“Now then, said Christian, to prevent drowziness in this place, let us fall into good discourse.” “With all my heart,” said [Hopeful]. “Where shall we begin?” “Where God began with us…”.’

These are just a few examples. Christian was determined to redeem the time of his journey with conversation that would be spiritually beneficial for all. He was determined enough to take the conversation there, even when no ‘natural’ segue-way presented itself.

Sometimes we get frustrated in our attempts to redeem conversations and talk about spiritual things because we’re always waiting for the perfect opportunity to naturally transition the conversation. In reality, though, if we believe that redeeming conversations is worth it, sometimes we need to just swallow our pride and make the transition, even if it does seem awkward for a moment.

The momentary awkwardness will pass. The blessing is what will last.

May 10th, 2010 | Tags: Conversations, friendship, Speech | Category: Christian Life | 1133Comments (1)http://julianfreeman.ca/christian-life/learning-intentional-awkwardLearning+to+Be+Intentional...+Even+If+Awkward2010-05-10+13%3A00%3A38Julian+Freeman

Today I’m continuing where I left off yesterday, teaching on the topic of redeeming your conversations.

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What are the Benefits?
Aside from being a means of obeying the commands listed above, redeeming your conversations becomes…

• A Means of Loving. If you are speaking what is beneficial, it is what is best for them
• A Means of Serving. People want to talk about spiritual things and people want relationships that mean something. By re-deeming your conversations with them, you’re helping them get there. You’re serving.
• A Means of Leading. Leading means gaining conviction, calling others to conviction, and then being the first to act on convic-tion. If you’re striving for obedience to the commands of Scripture, you’re leading.
• A Means of Grace. 1 Corinthians 14 argues that the very best thing you can speak is not a miraculous tongue or even prophecy. What is most important is that your words edify and build up. That means your words give grace—they show people God.
• A Means of Developing Manly Biblical Friendship. Guys bond over a common purpose (think team sports). If we never talk about our common purpose where will we develop meaningful camaraderie?
• A Means of Encouraging Evangelism. Part of the reason we’re so scared of evangelism is because we’re scared of spiritual conversations at all. Getting our feet wet with brothers will go a long way to easing us into evangelism opportunities.
• A Means of Cultivating Humility. It won’t be long before you feel awkward or dumb in a conversation if you’re working hard to make it meaningful. That’s great! This forces us to grow in humility. Are you in it for you or others?

May 7th, 2010 | Tags: Conversations, friendship, Speech | Category: Christian Life | 1130Comments (1)http://julianfreeman.ca/christian-life/benefits-redeeming-conversationsThe+Benefits+of+Redeeming+Conversations2010-05-07+14%3A00%3A50Julian+Freeman

Last night I was blessed with the opportunity to speak to the men of GFC about the privilege we have as Christian men to actually redeem conversations and make them spiritually beneficial. We began by asking the question, ‘How are conversations like gift cards?’ There are a lot of ways to answer that question, but the one I wanted to press home was this:

Potential conversations are like gift cards you receive. They have no cash value on their own; they are worth nothing until you redeem them. But even more than that, there’s a reality to the fact that conversations, like any other gift from God, are intended to be used. We’ll be held accountable for how we’ve used that gift.

I wanted us all to think hard about every potential opportunity for a conversation as an opportunity for something great and a gift we’ll be accountable for.

After that we dove into the lesson. I’ll post the lesson in a couple parts, beginning with what comes below.

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A Curious Thought
The NT never commands you directly to ‘redeem your conversations.’ But the reflective reader of the Bible will realize the importance of stewarding conversations in order to fulfill a number of other commands.

• Romans 15:14 – I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
• 1 Corinthians 14:26 — What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revela-tion, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
• Ephesians 4:25 — Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.
• Ephesians 4:29 — Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
• Ephesians 5:18-19 — … be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart…
• Colossians 3:16 — Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
• Colossians 4:6 — Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:18 — Therefore encourage one another with these words.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:11 — Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
• Hebrews 3:13 — But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today,’ that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• Hebrews 10:24 — And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
• James 1:19 — Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
• James 4:11 — Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
• James 5:9 — Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
• James 5:16 — Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Evaluate your past Sunday: How were your conversations? Did you instruct, speak a hymn, speak the truth, teach and admonish, speak graciously, encourage, exhort, stir up to good works, confess your sins? Were you quick to listen? Did you speak evil about a brother or sister, grumble or complain?

Simply put, all of us want to have deep, edifying, spiritual conversations, the question is, how committed are we? And how do we get there?

May 6th, 2010 | Tags: Conversations, friendship, Speech | Category: Christian Life | 1127Comments (3)http://julianfreeman.ca/christian-life/stewarding-conversationsStewarding+Your+Conversations2010-05-06+17%3A11%3A55Julian+Freeman

I’m excited about what God is doing in our city, in particular, in some of the local churches in our city. Below is the info for an event being hosted by Grace Toronto and run by the Ezra Institute (which is run out of Westminster Chapel). The event is coming up on Saturday, May 29 and will help us learn how to engage people in conversations and relationships that go beyond the weather and sports and get to the more meaningful matters of life.

If you, like me, would like to learn how to better love and share the gospel with your neighbour, then this is a great event for you to consider attending!

April 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Dan MacDonald, Evangelism, gospel, Joe Boot, Toronto | Category: gospel | 1124Comments (1)http://julianfreeman.ca/gospel/conversations-countConversations+That+Count2010-04-23+14%3A48%3A43Julian+Freeman

Mike Bullmore is the keynote speaker for this year’s Toronto Pastors Conference coming up June 14-16. I can’t wait to meet the brother in person!

To find out more about the Toronto Pastors Conference, check out TorontoPastors.org/tpc.

April 14th, 2010 | Tags: Discipleship, Mike Bullmore, Toronto Pastors Conference | Category: Toronto Pastors Fellowship | 1122Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/toronto-pastors-fellowship/role-discipleship-local-churchWhat+is+the+Role+of+Discipleship+in+the+Local+Church%3F2010-04-14+15%3A10%3A55Julian+Freeman

Have you ever asked that question? Was it easy to find an answer?

While the doctrine of heaven may be firmly established by using the whole of the revealed will of God, it is interesting to me how little Jesus himself says about heaven–at least in its future aspects.

For the most part, when Jesus talks about heaven, he is not concerned with what it will be like, but rather, (1) How you get yourself ‘in’, and, (2) the fact that it has begun now–and we are called to live in light of that reality.

It’s almost like if you asked Jesus, ‘What is heaven like?’ he’d answer, ‘You’re asking the wrong question.’ He would correct us, ‘Don’t think about heaven as some ethereal future hope–ask whether or not you have reason to believe that it is your hope.’ And then he would add, ‘Heaven isn’t an ethereal future hope–it is a present reality that begins when you live under my kingly reign now and you begin to experience my blessings now.’

All that being said, if we query the text of the gospels, I think we can find some details about the future reality of heaven from Jesus’ teaching.

• Heaven is a place. According to the Sermon on the Mount (in particular, Matthew 6) and John 14, heaven is an actual place–not bodiless beings floating through clouds. It is the place where God is and his presence is made known to bless.
• Heaven is a place of treasures. Again, from Matthew 6 we learn that the treasures and rewards we store up in heaven now will never be taken from us and they will never cease to give joy.
• Heaven is a place prepared for us. In Matthew 25 Jesus speaks of heaven as the kingdom which has been prepared for us from before the creation of the world. Again, then, we see it is a literal place where God is intent on blessing us.
• Heaven is a place of joy and reward. Still in Matthew 25, Jesus tells the parable where those who have been faithful with what they were given are commended by their master. The blessed words are this: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
• Heaven is a place of justice. In Luke 16, while teaching an entirely different point altogether, Jesus tells the story of two men who receive a just reversal of fortunes on the other side of judgement.
• Heaven is a place of single community. Luke 20 (cf. Matthew 22) teaches that humans will not be married or given in marriage in heaven. That being said, we are not community-less beings, but rather, we are like the angels, in fellowship with one another and ultimately, with God.

Can you think of any more places where Jesus talks about heaven? Any other details that can be gleaned from various places?

March 4th, 2010 | Tags: Heaven, Jesus, Joy | Category: Doctrine | 1119Comments (3)http://julianfreeman.ca/doctrine/jesus-heavenWhat+Did+Jesus+Say+About+Heaven%3F2010-03-04+16%3A51%3A30Julian+Freeman

Mike Bullmore is the keynote speaker at this year’s Toronto Pastors Conference (read about it here). Our theme this year will be ‘Gospel Connections: Keeping the death and resurrection of Jesus at the centre of everything.’

In this video Mike is answering the question, ‘Can a person come to a saving knowledge of God without hearing or believing in Jesus Christ?’

February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Jesus, Mike Bullmore, TPC, TPF | Category: Uncategorized | 1113Comments (2)http://julianfreeman.ca/uncategorized/mike-bullmore-saved-knowing-jesusMike+Bullmore%3A+Can+I+be+Saved+without+Knowing+Jesus%3F2010-02-23+22%3A00%3A56Julian+Freeman

It’s been one of my habits for some time now to give my children each a blessing before they go to sleep each night. As their father and spiritual head, I view it as my responsibility to teach, to discipline, to pray for, and to bless my kids. I want all of God’s blessing for them. First I sing them an old hymn or two, then I pray for them, with them, and then I bless them.

Pronouncing a benediction over them is a means of teaching them the word (I try to memorize biblical benedictions and use those), and invoking God’s blessing on them. It’s a joy to see how my girls have come to love it and expect it. Tonight I thought Caitie (my two year old) was asleep so I said her blessing silently–but then as I went to walk away, she sat up and asked me in her sleepy voice, ‘Daddy, do my blessing!’ How precious! I love how Susannah (my three year old) will regularly say the blessing along with me as well. Simply by the repetition, she has now learned a Bible verse that contains precious truths about who God is and what he does for his people.

While there are tremendous benefits of using the biblical benedictions, I’ve enjoyed modifying them to fit my growing understanding of who God is and what he says he’ll do. For example, when John Piper blesses his daughter, he says the Numbers 6 benediction (‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace’) he adds ‘… and someday, a godly husband.’ I love that! It reflects an understanding of God, his blessing, and what a father earnestly desires for his daughter.

When I do that same blessing, I’ll often fill out the blessing with some of the most glorious elements of the New Covenant that I’ve personally been overwhelmed to discover. So for me, it will often be, ‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance on you and give you peace and life, and hope, and joy.’

Recently, however, as I’ve been greatly encouraged by reading through the opening books of the Bible I’ve been freshly reminded of the faithfulness and covenant-keeping nature of God. I’ve found my heart warmed by thinking about the fact that we are children of the promise to Abraham. I’ve been challenged by the faithfulness of God through all generations; he never changes!

I was also challenged recently by the testimony of William Kiffin who wrote a memoir not for publication (though he could have easily had it published) but simply as a testimony of God’s grace in his life for his children and grandchildren. He wanted them to know who his God was and what he’d done for him.

With those truths in mind, I created a new benediction for my children based on God’s self-revelation in Genesis and Exodus, Psalm 103 (which we’ve been memorizing at church), and the example of Kiffin. I’m still trying to work it exactly as I would like it, but here it is so far:

May the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the God of your father
be merciful and gracious to you
and bless you with abounding steadfast love and faithfulness
so that by the power of his Spirit
you might know peace and life and hope and joy.
In Jesus’ name, amen.

How about you? Are benedictions a part of your family worship? How do you use them? What are your favourites?

February 11th, 2010 | Tags: Benedictions, Blessing, Caitlyn, Family, Susannah | Category: Family | 1108Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/family/blessingA+Blessing2010-02-12+01%3A36%3A44Julian+Freeman

You bet he did! Like most Christians throughout the history of the church, this famous believer was prone to discouragement. When he saw the sway that sin still held in his life he would begin to question whether or not God was really working in him–whether God would indeed keep him.

So what did he do?

Bunyan did excellently what we are so frequently admonishing each other to do: Preach truth to your own heart. A wonderful illustration of this is below.

Here, when faced with fits of despair and discouragement, Bunyan takes the truth of justification (forgiveness of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness) and preaches it to his heart. Despite what he feels, he says to himself, ‘This is what is true. This is where I can find hope, comfort, and peace.’

We would all do well to learn from his example and follow in his footsteps when we are discouraged or downcast.

Sometimes I bless the Lord my soul hath had the life that now I am speaking of, not only imputed to me, but the very glory of it upon my soul; for, upon a time, when I was under many condemnings of heart, and feared, because of my sins, my soul would miss of eternal glory, methought I felt in my soul such a secret motion of this—Thy righteousness is in Heaven, together with the splendour and shining of the Spirit of Grace in my soul, which gave me to see clearly that my righteousness by which I should be justified from all that could condemn, was the Son of God Himself in His own Person, now at the right hand of His Father representing me complete before the Mercy- seat in His Ownself; so that I saw clearly that night and day, wherever I was, or whatever I was a doing, still there was my righteousness just before the eyes of Divine glory; so that the Father could never find fault with me for any insufficiency that was in my righteousness, seeing it was complete; neither could He say, Where is it? because it was continually at His right hand.

 

Also, at another time, having contracted guilt upon my soul, and having some distemper of body upon me, I supposed that death might now so seize upon as to take me away from among men; then, thought I, what shall I do now? is all right with my soul? Have I the right work of God on my soul? Answering myself, “No, surely”; and that because there were so many weaknesses in me; yes, so many weaknesses in my best duties. For, thought I, how can such an one as I find mercy, whose heart is so ready to evil, and so backward to that which is good, so far as it is natural. Thus musing, being filled with fear to die, these words come in upon my soul, “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Rom 3:24). As if God had said, Sinner, thou thinkest because that thou hast had so many infirmities and weaknesses in thy soul while thou hast been professing of Me, therefore now there can be no hopes of mercy; but be it known unto thee, that it was not anything done by thee at the first that moved Me to have mercy upon thee: neither is it anything that is done by thee now that shall make me either accept or reject thee.

February 6th, 2010 | Tags: Doctrine, Imputation, John Bunyan, justification | Category: church history | 1097Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/church-history/john-bunyan-question-salvationDid+John+Bunyan+Question+His+Salvation%3F2010-02-07+03%3A49%3A04Julian+Freeman

I’m super-excited to help promote this however I can. It looks great. Two gifted and influential men trying to use some of their influence to advance the gospel cause in my neck of the woods — awesome!

… And just when I thought everyone had forgotten about Canada…

February 5th, 2010 | Tags: DA Carson, Gospel Coalition, Mike Bullmore | Category: Church | 1090Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/church/gospel-coalition-ontario-da-carson-mike-bullmoreThe+Gospel+Coalition+in+Ontario+--+D.A.+Carson+and+Mike+Bullmore2010-02-05+16%3A02%3A35Julian+Freeman

February 1st, 2010 | Tags: ChristianAudio, Mark Driscoll, Religion | Category: Doctrine | 1079Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/doctrine/download-religion-saves-freeDownload+%27Religion+Saves%27+for+Free2010-02-01+13%3A07%3A56Julian+Freeman

All of creation is groaning together, awaiting redemption. Praise God for the life of this little image-bearer and for the glory his life gives to God. Praise God for the faith, hope, and trust of his parents. Oh, how we await the consummation of all things when all that is wrong with this world will finally be made right!

Come, Lord Jesus!

 

Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his body. However, that could not stop the living God from proclaiming Himself through this boy who never uttered a word.

In the midst of heartbreaking tragedy, the Mooney family found the presence of God strengthening, comforting, and guiding them. Their story reminds us to seek God and endure our struggles rather than blame Him for our hardships.

January 21st, 2010 | Category: Children | 1069Leave a commenthttp://julianfreeman.ca/children/genuinely-moving-storyA+Genuinely+Moving+Story2010-01-21+21%3A39%3A13Julian+Freeman