People have such slight and superficial views of sin because they have such slight and superficial views of God!– Ian Hamilton in What Is Experiential Calvinism?
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
4 Ways to Cling to the Lord – Sam Storms (Crossway)
The temptation to forget God is always present. But there is a way to maintain one’s devotion to the Lord. Joshua’s counsel in Joshua 23:6-11 is especially helpful and can be summarized using four As.
How to Resist Temptation’s Mirage Moment– Jon Bloom (DG)
Temptation is a disorienting, defiling experience when evil is presented to us as good. Destruction comes dressed up to look like happiness.
5 Things You Can Give to God Every Day – Tim Challies
The heart of productivity is glorifying God by serving others. It is carefully and deliberately considering the things God calls us to do, and deploying all that we’ve got for his glory and the good of people made in his image. It is giving back to him what he has entrusted to each one of us.
Don’t Be Embarrassed by Your Ordinary Church – Erik Raymond (For the Church)
Is your church ordinary? Small? Well, my Christian friend, if it is preaching the gospel and endeavoring to help others to know and follow Jesus then it is not insignificant. It is powerfully important and surpassingly glorious.
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your ordinary church and your extraordinary God!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
The Joy of Self-Discipline – Tim Challies
Four Steps to Kill Nagging Sins – Gavin Ortlund (DG)
15 Discernment Diagnostics – Kevin DeYoung
4 Essentials for Finishing Well – Jerry Bridges (Crossway)
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day growing in the truth of God’s Word with your local church!
We should not be entertained by the sins
for which Christ died.
– John MacArthur
– David Wells
The way of sin is to live, not for God, but for yourself; to love and serve and please yourself without regard for your Maker; to try to be independent of him, to hold him at arm’s length, to keep the reins of your own life firmly in your own hands; yet at the same time to try to manipulate him as a means to your own ends and to use him as a safety net when you are in trouble…. Sin is deviation from the God who wants our fellowship and worship, and sin embraces self-absorption in place of God-centeredness.
– J. I. Packer in Taking God Seriously
It has been a busy week with VBS, so I haven’t had time to blog. But I’m back, and here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
What We Need Is More Knowledge – John Stott (via Tim Challies)
Breaking Free from the Spell of Fantasy – Jon Bloom (DG)
Well-Planned, Hard, Sweat-Inducing Prayer and Work – Joel Beeke (via Tim Challies)
12 Questions for a Six-Month Spiritual Checkup – Chuck Lawless
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping our Great King!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
6 Things Jesus Does With Sin – Jared Wilson
This is how Jesus forgives sin: He condemns it, carries it, cancels it, kills it, casts it, and clean forgets it.
This. Is. The. Day. – Michael Kelley
It will do me no good to wish for another day. A different day. The day that someone else is having. This is the day that I’ve been given. This day, full of the mundane and the ordinary, full of the opportunity unexpected. This one, the one that’s beginning right now, is the day.
Faithfully Delivering the Gospel – Erik Raymond
So what are you, the evangelist, the Christian, to do? Talk to people about Jesus. The power is neither in you nor the sinner, but in the gospel!
Keller’s 5 Ways the Gospel Transforms Your Work – Nicholas McDonald
The way a Christian works is radically different from those around him or her. The gospel ought to transform the way a Christian works from the inside out.
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
We Should Be Weeping – Jared Mulvihill (DG)
The Best Kind of Savior – Tim Challies
8 Lessons from the School of Prayer – D. A. Carson (TGC)
Needing Guidance? 30 Questions To Ask – David Murray
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!
– William Gurnall
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