Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
Kids love Christmas… and kids love Christmas presents. Just about the only thing that’s better than getting a great Christmas gift is getting a Christmas gift that’s better than any of the gifts your siblings or friends got. Nothing ruins a good gift quicker than realizing that someone else got a better gift. Kids and earthly-minded [...]
In the Lord’s providence, we finished up our morning series in James and our evening series in Galatians on this past Sunday. It was quite interesting to me that both sermons finished with exhortations to Christians to be confronting sin in the lives of their brothers and sisters. As I sat and listened to my [...]
The other day Stacey returned home with a special purchase for Susannah. It was a bottle of bright-coloured, foaming hand soap. Susannah has reached an age where we want her to be able to do more things (like washing her hands) on her own. Susannah took to this task with joy! She stood at the [...]
Even though we’ve moved on to chapter 5 in our study on James at GFC, I’m still marvelling at many of the things my Lord has been teaching me from his word. Preaching big passages like I’ve had to do is great for seeing the big picture and covering more of God’s word, but it [...]
These are some notes taken from the sermon I preached this past Sunday at GFC. I was preaching from James 4:13-17 and the necessity of realizing our absolute dependence on God before we do any planning–even mundane, day-to-day planning. You can listen to the whole sermon here to get the context for the notes that [...]
The further along in the book of James we go, the more points there are when I think, ‘…Huh?’ It’s a bizarre experience to look ahead in the book, know that there are only a few weeks left to finish the last chapter and a half, and realize that you don’t really understand what they [...]
As I lamented yesterday, preaching through James 4.1-12 quickly made me a little sad because I wasn’t able to pursue some rabbit trails that I would’ve loved to go down. One of those was how this passage should instruct us guys in our husbandry. In verse four, the people of God are referred to as [...]
There are benefits and drawbacks to preaching large portions of text. The benefits are too numerous to get into, but one of the drawbacks is that you don’t get to stop and to meditate for as long as you’d like on a single thought expressed in your passage, because there are so many other things [...]
A few years back I was struck by the realization that the way I read the Bible was being handicapped by the way the pages were laid out. Here are just a few examples. The pages are laid out in columns. What other book is laid out like that? When I read the Bible, I [...]
For those interested, I’ve added an rss feed on the sidebar for the sermon-series I’m preaching through the book of James. Whenever sermons from that series are put online, it will be posted here as well. As always through sermonaudio, the sermons are free to download, or else you can stream them directly from the [...]
Yesterday, by God’s grace, I was able to begin our summer series of sermons from the book of James. I’ve titled this series ‘A Call to Consistency.’ I figure that’s about as close as I can get to a base theme that unites all the different emphases in James. Doug Moo refers to it as [...]
This summer, while our pastor is on sabbatical, I’ll be preaching (God willing) through the book of James. This week I’m studying to preach James 1:1-18. Today, over at the Desiring God blog, they’ve got a great application of James 1:13-15. I heartily recommend you check out this post: ‘12 Sins We Blame on Others‘ [...]
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