Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
Saul is a foil character. A foil character exists as a backdrop against which the positive traits of the protagonist may be displayed. It’s bizarre that Saul would be one, because everyone in his day thought he was going to be the hero. It’s also bizarre because he is supposed to be the hero: he is [...]
The other night as we were standing in church, singing at the beginning of our prayer meeting, I was overwhelmed by God’s grace. The songs that Joshua and our ‘Band of Brothers’ choose to lead us in worship are always theologically-rich and packed with scriptural truth, so the fact that I would be overwhelmed by [...]
Line of the Day: I’m not insecure… I just want everyone else to think as highly of me as I do. Thought for the Day: Remember when you were little and a friend would have a birthday party? You’d watch the mother cut all the pieces of cake and hand them out to each child. [...]
I’ve been re-impressed over the last few weeks in particular by how important it is to be memorizing Scripture. Our Fighter Verse programme at Grace Fellowship Church has been a huge help to me in my own walk. This week’s verse is one each of us would do really well to memorize as we seek [...]
My brother (over at his newly up-and-running blog) has a rather comical (and incredibly geeky) version of my ‘on momming’ post. You can read it here. Maybe it’s just funnier for me because I can actually envision the whole thing. Or maybe I can just envision it because it could very well have been a [...]
Today I am rejoicing. Stacey and I are celebrating our fourth anniversary this very day. As I look back over the four years, I have to marvel at God’s grace… in so many ways! On this anniversary I’m rejoicing in God’s grace in these three ways in particular: God looked at me, liked he looked [...]
It’s hard to know sometimes what to blog about when there are so many different things going on in life. Here’s a few things I’ve been thinking about. Humility I’ve thought about this on this blog before, but I was blessed with the opportunity to teach on it recently at a men’s meeting at our [...]
The things in life that we are most prone to take for granted are generally not the things we should take for granted. The things we presume on are usually not those things which are ordinary, but rather, the things which we most regularly see. The funny thing about what we most regularly see is [...]
When our TAG (‘Truth Application Group’) finished up last week we were sharing with each other what we had learned through the group and during the time period of the group. For me, the answer had several parts, but one of the main things that I’ve been thinking about since we started meeting (and one [...]
A little while ago, the Challister posted some thoughts he’d been working through on why it is that children of believers are more likely to believe the gospel–and in particular, why they are likely to believe at a young age. Here’s a part of his conclusion: A person’s spiritual condition, it seems, is much like [...]
One of the greatest questions I think any young Christian (whether young as a person or young as a Christian–or both!) can ask is this: How can I become wise? To say that the Scriptures speak highly of wisdom is an understatement indeed (see here for just one example). So how does one attain it? [...]
Believe it or not, I’m still alive and kicking. It has been a busy several months and this blog was clearly sacrificed on the altar of urgency for a time. To be honest, I’m never sure if it’s more responsible to cut the blog in order to stay on top of things better in my [...]
‘You are good and do good…’ — Psalm 119.68 At about 5.00pm last night my Lord saw fit to take my Grandfather from this earth. I continue to sway between having to ‘not think about it’ to thanking the Lord for the years he gave me with Grandad, to crying out of sheer sadness. I [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately for several of my courses about textual criticism of the New Testament Greek texts. It’s been really interesting, to say the least, and I’ve been learning lots. One of the greatest things I learned was this. In the first century AD the copying of manuscripts was a [...]
This morning I was blessed in my reading of 1 Timothy. I was quite refreshed to read Paul’s words to Timothy: The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. When Scripture records for us Paul’s letter to this young pastor (the first [...]
I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but if you are, then you probably wonder from time to time why you have to learn something so many times before it finally sinks in. This morning, as I was reading through Acts, I couldn’t help but be struck with the reality of my need to [...]
The end of the school semester is almost upon us. The end of 2006 is almost upon us.The season when people like to reflect on the year that was, and ponder their life in the year to come is just beginning. As I was getting ready for bed last night I got to thinking… I [...]
No one has understood sin and the sin nature like the Puritans, particularly when it comes to the ongoing necessity (and struggles) of putting that sin nature to death. Here are a few gems from the Soli Deo Gloria republication (Morgan, PA, 1995) of Obadiah Sedgwick‘s (1600-1658) The Anatomy of Secret Sins. Let a man [...]
Sometimes I think I brag about the work that God is doing in our church too much. But then I get to speaking with brothers from other churches who are caught up in programs and boards and committees and all that stuff and they are so negative about church… it really makes me sad. They [...]
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