This is a great post from Brent Thomas on Donald Miller and the Gospel.
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Sometimes Our Sinful Desires May Be The Least of Our Worries!
This is a good word from Ken Sande of Peacemaker Ministries:
It is often not what we want that is the problem, but that we want it too much. For example, it is not unreasonable for a man to want a passionate sexual relationship with his wife or for a mother to want to stay at [...]
John Owen on the Cross
John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, p. 332:
Labor to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ. Consider the sorrows he underwent, the curse he bore, the blood he shed, the cries he put forth, the love that was in all this to your souls, and the mystery of the grace of God therein. Meditate [...]
Difference Between Heaven and Hell
Hell = eternity in the presence of GodHeaven = eternity in the presence of God with a Mediator
The Cross and Criticism
This article by rapper Curtis Allen has been circulating the blog and is a great example of humility in the face of criticism. In it Allen mentions this article by Alfred Poirier that is available here on the Peacemaker website. It is a great article that puts criticism in the right perspective - namely, in [...]
Apologetics to the Glory of God
I just finished a class on apologetics at RTS this week and I feel like it has been one of the most helpful classes I have taken in the last eleven years of undergraduate and graduate work. I have explained to friends that it has been one of those experiences where I have felt my [...]
Don’t Waste Your Life Podcast
You may have already seen this but Desiring God is now producing short video podcasts taking themes from the book Don’t Waste Your Life. I’ve listened to all the ones they done so far and I’m very impressed and challenged. In fact, I just listened to “Chaotic Desperation” and feel deeply the truth of [...]
Starve the Flesh
Josh Harris has a great illustrated recap of his message from this past Sunday on Romans 13:14:
“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”
Check out his blog for all the rest of the great doodles of the flesh and pray for me as I seek [...]
Happiness vs. Joy– and the victor is??
Dee has a great post on the difference (or non-difference) between happiness and joy.
Know Yourself
Owen from ‘Overcoming Sin and Temptation‘:
Many men live in the dark to themselves all their days; whatever else they know, they know not themselves. They know their outward estates, how rich they are, and the condition of their bodies as to health and sickness they are careful to examine; but as to their inward man, [...]
