Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

Over the last couple of months I've been extremely busy. I have wanted to blog, but literally haven't had the time to think through things enough to make a coherent thought. I've missed it greatly.

Due to the Thanksgiving holidays I have taken this week off and will be enjoying some time with family down in Alabama. I'm anticipating my schedule opening up a bit over the next several weeks, so Lord willing I will put some much needed time back into blogging.

Please pray for our family as we will be traveling and for us to enjoy one another's fellowship!

I would love to hear how you are spending your Thanksgiving and any sweet family traditions that you like to celebrate.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

You Cannot Gather Together...

Pray for our brothers and sisters in Vietnam. This video was taken while one little church was gathering together to worship Christ. They are being raided by the authorities of the town while meeting.

What would you do NLC? How would you respond?




(HT: John Piper)

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Glorify God By Working Out Your Salvation In Christ

“We glorify God by working out our own salvation. God has twisted together his glory and our good. What an encouragement is this to the service of God, to think, while I am hearing and praying, I am glorifying God; while I am furthering my own glory in heaven, I am increasing God’s glory.

Would it not be an encouragement to a subject, to hear his prince say to him, You will honour and please me very much, if you will go to yonder mine of gold, and dig as much gold for yourself as you can carry away? So, for God to say, Go to the ordinances, get as much grace as you can, dig out as much salvation as you can; and the more happiness you have, the more I shall count myself glorified.”

—Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity

(HT: OfFirstImportance)

Thursday, November 5, 2009

My Father's Daughter

I encourage each of you to take a moment and read up on my wife Stephanie's new blog. She has called it My Father's Daughter.

It is her spiritual effort to encourage, minister, and lead others to lean on Christ, who are facing the realization that they have been Donor Conceived.

I love my wife and I knew that it was just a matter of time before she picked up this crisis in her own life and turned it into a way to help people see the beauty and worth of Jesus Christ through it all.

Please pray for her b/c she longs for her blog to be a means of God's grace to so many people. Something that is very encouraging is....within the first few hours of her blog going public she already had a good number of hits from all over the world.

These precious people are hurting and they need to turn to Jesus. If you happen to know anyone who is wrestling with this in their lives, please encourage them to contact Stephanie.

Praise God for His comfort to comfort others!