Category: PASSION Points

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Repentance Doesn’t Hem and Haw – Jared Wilson
So this is repentance. No excuses, no yes-buts, no waffling. Not hemming and hawing but an about-face and a cutting to the chase.

Lessons Learned in the School of Suffering – Darryl Dash
The Psalms and other writings became real to me in new ways. My prayer life was deepened even as my prayers contained fewer words. The consolation from knowing that Jesus was no stranger to suffering became even more precious.

My Wife Has Tattoos: Marriage and New Birth – Spencer Harmon (GC)
But everything changes when people meet Jesus. He takes rebellious teenage partiers and goody-two-shoes homeschoolers and puts them together in marriage to put something on display much bigger than their own handcrafted, perfectly planned love story.

The Proper Response to Easter – Jared Wilson
The proper response to Easter is not warm fuzzies, but awe.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church celebrating our great Savior and Shepherd!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

What Is Conscience? – Joe Carter (GC)

The Multifaceted Diamond of Christ’s Atoning Work – Trevin Wax

Arms Outstretched – Trevin Wax

Simple Evangelism in the Church – Jason Helopoulis

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day celebrating our Savior!

Passion Points

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Here are some good Passion Week related posts for your weekend reading:

How To Handle Your Sin – Kevin DeYoung
Run to the cross. There you will find salvation for your sin sick self.

God Wants You To Know How Much He Loves You – Jon Bloom (DG)
That’s what Passion Week is for; that you might remember and more deeply know how much God has loved you — so much that he gave his only Son for you
Includes a link to a Desiring God booklet with daily readings for the coming week.

The Passion Week – Infographic – Josh Byers
This week’s infographic, The Passion Week, is a chronological timeline of the major events that happened during Jesus’ last week before he died and rose again.

Some Easter Posts – Three Passions
This is a collection of Easter posts I put together last year, including another Easter week timeline and a short video you should watch every year.

The Thief and Us – Three Passions
Another post from last year worth pondering again.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day and coming week reflecting on our Savior’s death, burial and resurrection!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Ten Things To Do During Suffering – Ed Welch (CCEF)

Why God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle – Jon Bloom (DG)

40 Joys Through Jesus – David Murray

How Do You Prepare For Sunday? – Jordan Kauflin (DG)

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping our great God with your local church!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

How to Fill Your Life with Joy – Matt Chandler via Jonathan Parnell (DG)
For years I tried to figure out what’s the best way for me to flourish in my relationship with Christ. And when all is said and done, I learned I needed to fill my life with things that stir my affections for Jesus. And then pay attention and keep away from my heart the things that rob me of my affections, even if those things are morally neutral.

Warm Yourself at the Fires of Meditation – David Mathis (DG)
In meditation, we pause and reflect over his words. We roll them over in our minds and let them ignite our hearts — we “warm ourselves at the fires of meditation.” We pose questions and seek answers. We go deep in God’s revelation, take it into our very souls, and as we are being changed by his truth, we respond to him in prayer.

How to Memorize Entire Books of the Bible – Jemar Tisby
You don’t have to start by memorizing an entire book.  Commit to memorizing a single chapter.  If you’re like me, you’ll be hooked and want to keep going.  And pray that God would bless your efforts.  He wants you to know His word. 

Where Preferences Go to Die – Trillia Newbell (GC)
I’m convinced many of our problems with the church result from running away from difficult or uncomfortable situations rather than persevering through them. Since we don’t enjoy facing our fears or finding ourselves in challenging circumstances, the thought of escape brings great comfort.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church worshiping our glorious and gracious God!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Genuine Repentance – Jared Wilson
We name our sin as sin and do not spin it or excuse it, and further, we demonstrate “godly sorrow,” which is to say, a grief chiefly about the sin itself, not just a grief about being caught or having to deal with the consequences of sin.

What Should Our Perspective Be on Growing Older? – Randy Alcorn
I won’t pretend that growing old is easy. It isn’t. But there is still something beautiful about it for the Christian. There are always people to share your life with—people to help and people to help you. And with you is your God, who knew you before birth and will take you through death to the glory of His presence.

You’re Going to Die (and So Might Your Dreams) – Jared Wilson
Are we pursuing our own greatness or the expansion of worship of Jesus Christ? They aren’t necessarily incompatible, but God is more interested in the latter than the former. And ultimately, if we prioritize Christ’s glory, we won’t really care in the long run how noticed, renowned, recognized, or “successful” we are personally. We’ll realize that our lives aren’t really about us anyway.

Idolatry in Corporate Worship – Bob Kauflin (DG)
Every time we gather is an opportunity to glory in God’s grace revealed to us in the crucified and risen Savior. Let’s not let idols keep us from reveling in the inexpressible joy that our sins are forgiven and we have been reconciled to God.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping our great God!

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

A Surprising Work of God, Part One – Kevin DeYoung

A Surprising Work of God, Part Two – Kevin DeYoung

Charles Wesley – Tim Challies

Charles Wesley’s “And Can It Be”: Background and Scriptural Allusions – Justin Taylor

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day celebrating God’s amazing love!

 

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Quotes on Knowing and Loving God – Trevin Wax

What Must You Leave Behind? Kevin DeYoung

Being True to Yourself is Living a Lie – Trevin Wax

These Precious Days – Tim Challies

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day knowing and loving God!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

The Answer to Every Christian’s Identity Struggle – Paul Tautges

Good Works and Sanctification – Jason Helopoulos

How Many Motivations Are There for Godliness – Kevin DeYoung

9 Ways to Pray for Churches and Pastors – 9Marks (via Justin Taylor)

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Your Most Courageous Resolution for 2014 – Jon Bloom (Desiring God)
Let this be the year that we pursue love. Let this be the year that we stop talking about love, that we do less regretful moaning about how little we love and how much we need to grow in love and actually be determined to love more the way Jesus loved…

True Freedom is Freedom to Be My True Self – John Stott (via Trevin Wax)
True freedom is freedom to be my true self, as God made me and meant me to be. And God made me for loving. But loving is giving, self-giving. Therefore, in order to be myself, I have to deny myself and give myself….

Why Real Christians Are So Odd – A. W. Tozer (via Justin Taylor)
A real Christian is an odd number, anyway.
He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen;
talks familiarly everyday to someone he cannot see;
expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another….

The Centerpiece of Sunday Worship – Marshall Segal (Desiring God)
Even in corporate worship, with sermons every week, we can too easily wander from our wonder at all that we have in Scripture. What if we came to church hungry, even starving, for the word of God (Matthew 4:4)? What if we expected God to inspire, change, and commission us in the sacred moments we spend together over these pages? What if we thought we’d become more like him — undeserving sinners wading into the divine nature — when his words wash over us as the Bible is read and explained (2 Peter 1:3–4)?

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day being incredibly odd as you love your brothers and sisters in Christ and hungrily dig into His Word!