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apologetics, conferences, Ligonier
That’s the title of this year’s Ligonier Ministries National Conference, June 17-19, at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center in Orlando. Below is the promo video from their website. Their aim in this conference is to help us learn to apply eternal truth to difficult challenges. This from their website: Christ has [...]
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service, women's ministry
An open letter to our friend and faithful women’s Bible study leader, Abby Gjertsen
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confession, forgiveness, pastoral ministry, prayer
Last evening I posted a link to the full text of Pastor John Piper’s announcement concerning his leave of absence from Bethlehem Baptist Church. Today, as I thought about this turn of events and the heart of my brother and co-laborer in the gospel, I felt compelled to post a first-ever comment on the Desiring [...]
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John Piper, pastoral ministry
This morning before my pastoral prayer I mentioned the news regarding Pastor John’s leave of absence from Bethlehem Baptist Church and Desiring God. Here is a portion of his statement on today’s DG blog: I asked the elders to consider this leave because of a growing sense that my soul, my marriage, my family, and [...]
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abortion, crisis pregnancy, outreach
Will you join us? Tomorrow, March 27, at 9 AM at Lake Eola in downtown Orlando, people from all over the city will gather for the annual “Walk for Life” hosted by True Life Choice, a crisis pregnancy ministry. Their mission statement reads like this: True Life Choice is a mission in active obedience to [...]
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happiness, money, perseverance, trials, wisdom
No question about it. The way James describes blessedness doesn’t fit the average American definition. Consider James 1:2-12. 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and [...]
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friendship, loss, mentoring
By Tim Cyr Last fall I had the privilege of getting to know John Gjertsen. It started with us playing a game called “The Fury of Dracula,” which then ended up becoming my favorite game that has been created. As much fun as the game was, I also loved what we called “Monday Night Fury” [...]
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Evangelism, incarnation, religion
Last Sunday I preached on John 8:48-59, the closing paragraph of the chapter. You can listen to the entire audio of the sermon here. Here’s how I closed the message and summarized the passage: It’s conceivable that you may be listening to this message and think you know God when you don’t. There is only [...]
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prayer, spiritual reformation
Here is the study guide for our final chapter in Dr. Carson’s book! Chapter Twelve – Prayer for Ministry With what analogy does Carson lead on p. 205 of this chapter and how does he use it to make his point, particularly in relating it to the matter of prayer? How does the prayer of [...]
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death, sickness, suffering
While suffering recently through the most prolonged bout with the Epstein Barr virus I have experienced in years, I received two vastly different perspectives on sickness. The first came from an old high school acquaintance. While I was ill she phoned me about our 40th high school reunion coming up in October. I explained that I couldn’t really talk with [...]
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