I took the week off from blogging, but I am back today with some good posts for your weekend reading:
3 Keys To a Powerful Prayer Life – Tim Challies
How To Not Grow Weary In Doing Good – Mark Altrogge (TBC)
Nine Questions to Help You Steward All of Your Life for God’s Glory – Brad Hambrick (BCC)
Does Your Pastor Love You? – Erik Raymond
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
How to Commune with Christ on a Crazy Day – David Mathis (Crossway)
Do Not Grieve the Holy Spirit – Tim Challies
Hobbies to the Glory of God – Tim Challies
Yes Christian, You Need the Church– Josh Buice (DBG)
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church worshiping our glorious and gracious God!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
17 Benefits to Reading the Entire Bible – Kristen Wetherell (FTC)
Recovering the Priority of Personal Holiness – Alistair Begg (Ligonier)
4 Essentials for Finishing Well – Jerry Bridges (Crossway)
3 Keys to Listening During Sermons – Dave Jenkins (GCD)
Every member should grow up and use a towel, not wear a bib. They should not be immature consumers but eager servants.– Tony Merida in Exalting Jesus in Ephesians
I am very much in favor of including children in the Worship Service. Our children grew up in the Worship Service, and learned at an early age to sing what they could, pray when everyone else did, and listen to the sermons. So here are some good posts on why to keep children in the service:
4 Reasons Your Kids Should Sit with You on Sunday– Jared Bridges (TGC)
5 Reasons to Keep the Kids In – Nick Batzig (TCC)
It’s Okay for Kids to be Bored During Church – Melissa Edgington
4 Ways to Welcome Children in Worship– Megan Hill (TGC)
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
How To Pray When Your Soul Is Bone Dry – Tim Challies
There are times when your soul feels bone dry, when even opening your mouth to pray seems an impossibility. What do you do?
You Can Change – Tim Chester (Crossway)
Jesus came to remake us in God’s image. Jesus took our brokenness, our hatred, and our curse on himself on the cross. He took the penalty of our sin and in its place gave us a new life and new love. God is in the business of change. He’s interested in making us like Jesus.
Don’t Waste Your Summer – Kevin DeYoung
What can we do to make the most of June, July, and August? Here are twenty suggestions.
10 Reasons Why the Church Gathers – Casey Lewis (FTC)
As Christians, we should all desire to gather together with one another as often as possible. As motivation, here are ten reasons why gathering regularly with the church is important.
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church!
Here are some good posts on preaching:
5 Things Pastors Should Ask Themselves Before Sunday – Kent Hughes (Crossway)
Ten Key Questions for Sermon Preparation – Darryl Dash
21 Thoughts on Preaching – Jared Wilson
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
7 Ways to Fight Distraction During Prayer – Gavin (Soliloquium)
Discontentment Says Something about You, Not Your Circumstances – Philip Graham Ryken (Crossway)
Beware the Busyness of Summer Break – Dave Zuleger (DG)
Why I Sit at the Front – Tim Chester
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Making the Most of Your Bible Reading – Godwin Sathianathan (FTC)
God desires to speak something to you. He has something for you in His Word for your particular day. Do you believe that? Are you eagerly anticipating what He might say to you today?
3 Truths to Speak To Your Temptation – Tim Challies
Sin promises joy but brings pain, sin promises happiness but brings shame, sin promises life but brings death, sin promises freedom but brings guilt, sin promises heaven but brings hell. It is always, always a lie.
Play Hard – Jared Wilson
We need to remember to play hard. We need to take having fun seriously. This means….being mindful in our rest, play, and fun that these things are gifts from God meant to help us celebrate being made in God’s image as Creator and project in some way the creative story he is telling with the universe.
Ten Things I Learned at Church on Sunday – Erik Raymond
God met us as a church in the ordinary and showed us his extraordinary faithfulness, grace, beauty, and power.
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church meeting with our great God!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Jerry Bridge’s Seven Standout Spiritual Lessons – Tim Challies
Lesson One: The Bible is meant to be applied to specific life situations. This includes both God’s commands to be obeyed and His promises to be relied upon…
Why Patience Doesn’t Come Naturally – Sam Storms
First, impatience is the product of selfish entitlement in the human soul. I get impatient because I actually believe I deserve better…
How to Kill Sinful Anger– Jon Bloom (DG)
All sinful anger is hard to fight. It’s a selfish, hot-blooded passion our flesh enjoys indulging. But I find it particularly difficult to fight the sinful anger that I feel I have a right to feel…
No Normal Sundays: Interview with Bob Kauflin– David Mathis (DG)
Worshiping Jesus together with his church is an awesome privilege…
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!
Brian J. Mikul 