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Acts 29, burnout, discouragement, fatigue, promises of God, trials
Not many gray hairs graced the Acts 29 Network conference I attended this week in Orlando. The brothers above (left), however, Ray Ortlund Jr. and Sam Storms, were among the exceptions. Scott Thomas (right), president of the movement, engaged them in Q & A at the close of the conference. Among the questions submitted by [...]
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Bible, gospel, marriage, sin, theology
I shared this quote from Dave Harvey’s terrific book When Sinners Say “I Do” a couple of weeks ago in one of my messages. It packs such a punch that I decided to feature it today in my blog post. The gospel is the heart of the Bible. Everything in Scripture is either preparation for [...]
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food drive, good works, mercy ministry, outreach, Super Bowl
No, that’s not a typo. I meant the play on words with “souper.” As you know this Sunday brings us to Super Bowl XLVI between the Patriots and Giants. Many plan to watch and enjoy with family and friends. The whole deal has turned into something of a national holiday. For the last several years [...]
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Faithfulness, gospel, love, ministry, perseverance, resurrection, reward, work, zeal
Today’s message from 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. I summarized the theme of the text this way: the victorious reality of our future resurrection anchors us in an unshakeable constancy in ministry. Work for God fueled by the fire of a gospel-resurrection hope will be [...]
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Acts, Bible, gospel, John Wesley, prayer, priorities
Sunday’s message is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. We have now completed the New Year’s emphasis on Godward priorities in prayer and the Word. Part three focused on the word of His grace and the importance of regularly putting ourselves under the reading and hearing of the gospel. Oh [...]
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addiction, change, character, marriage, running, sobriety
I received this earlier this week from Jared Combs (new member at OGC) with a little help from Jillian Groeneveld: I’m not much of a writer, so Jill has agreed to help me with this article. The Lord has spoken so many priceless things to me recently so this is my attempt at jotting them [...]
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abortion, adoption, China, infanticide, population control, sanctity of life
Tomorrow is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. I have given over the pulpit to David Wooten, my friend, new member at OGC, and staff member at Embrace By Grace, a Christian adoption ministry in Casselberry. I look forward to what my brother will bring from the word in Genesis tomorrow on the subject of being [...]
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discipleship, idolatry, sacrifice, sanctification, self-denial
I admit it. Working through this quarter’s edition of Free Grace Broadcaster on the topic of self-denial has left its share of bruises and wounds on my experience. For example, consider this paragraph from one of the articles by Charles Spurgeon entitled Family or Christ?: What, then, is the expense [of following Christ]?…The answer is [...]
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Paul Miller, prayer, spiritual disciplines
I continue to feel like God is using Paul Miller’s book A Praying Life in significant ways in my spiritual journey at the top of this new year. That’ true for a variety of reasons, one of which has to do with the balance of his approach between a kind of prayer-without-ceasing-lifestyle approach to intercession [...]
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Missions, North Korea, Operation World, prayer
I meant to do this post weeks ago. The holidays and a cruddy cold took care of that notion. Still, anybody who reads a newspaper or watches the news knows that North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Il slipped into eternity in December. His son, Kim Jong-Un has succeeded him as the new ruler of one of [...]
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