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blocked goals, delays, New Building, planning, providence
You can see by the sign our latest thinking. Hopes are high for a CO by the end of April, CW – city willing. We should close out construction relatively soon. Then everything depends on passing all the necessary inspections. Please continue to pray for favor. Even so, we don’t expect to publicize an official [...]
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Bible, faith, obedience, works
One could rightly summarize the Epistle of James in two words: “Faith works.” James argues for a kind of Christianity that acts on what it knows in terms of right speech and behavior. An important transition occurs in vv. 19-27 of the first chapter. It revolves around the word of God. Just as God uses [...]
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delays, humility, perseverance, sanctification
Why does God delay to answer prayer? Consider these thoughts by the Puritan Thomas Watson in his book The Body of Divinity. Because he loves to hear the voice of prayer. ‘The prayer of the upright is his delight.’ Prov 15: 8. You let the musician play a great while ere you throw him down [...]
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deity of Christ, Easter, gospel, judgment, justification, resurrection
Today’s Easter message from 1 Cor. 15:12-20 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here is how I summarized the argument in this portion of the epistle: But here’s the good news. Paul has trafficked in the hypothetical for the purposes of his logical argument in these last eight verses. [...]
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apologetics, deception, Easter, evidence, faith, resurrection
Tomorrow is Easter. I will preach on the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead for the umpteenth time. I am getting up there in years and I have been a follower of Jesus of Nazareth since 1972 and a minister of the gospel most of the years since then. My text for tomorrow’s message entitled Life’s [...]
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CXVI, Easter, Holy Week, hymns, Justin Taylor
I came across this offer on Justin Taylor’s blog today. I downloaded the files and listened to their rendition of O Sacred Head. Lovely. Hope you like it. CXVI: “We’re giving away an entire album again in celebration of Easter! . . . We’ve even including a song off our upcoming album, Re:Hymns. Derek Webb [...]
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communion, Glorious Freedom, Good Friday, Richard Sibbes, sacraments, sanctification
Puritan Richard Sibbes, in his book Glorious Freedom, offers excellent counsel for approaching the Lord’s Table in a worthy manner. The entire book constitutes his exposition of 2 Corinthians 3:18, a most important New Testament text on the doctrine of sanctification. I commend this to you in preparation for our Good Friday observances in growth [...]
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annual meeting, change, concerns, Future, progress, state of the church
I delivered this report at our annual meeting on Sunday night. I wanted to make it today’s blog post in the interest of informing those who could not attend. Overall, I praise God that I sense before the Lord that the state of Orlando Grace is better than it ever has been for as long [...]
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deity of Christ, faith, indwelling, obedience, Trinity
Today’s message from John 14:15-24 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here is how I tied together the entire passage in our last look at this section of the farewell discourse: Genuine faith that knows the Father and the Son who is in the Father demonstrates itself through obedience [...]
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men, Oxford Club, Practical View, Wilberforce
We got off to to a good start this morning discussing the preface. Our next meeting is slated for April 21 at 7 AM. Place is TBA. We will tackle, Lord willing, the introduction and chapter one of A Practical View of Christianity by William Wilberforce. I still have one copy of the Hendrikson Classic [...]
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