Last week I read this in John MacArthur’s book Truth for Today and it convicted me and helped me to increase my passion for lost people. He suggested the following five steps to increase your passion for lost people:
First, study Christ’s great love, compassion, and tender mercy. You can study great men and women [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Increasing your passion for the lost
Posted in Evangelism on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Bless the Lord, o my soul!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Psalms are divided up into five “books.” The books are not evenly divided. Yet each one of the “books” ends with a doxology.
The end of “book one” is Psalm 41 which concludes “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen!” The psalm ends this [...]
Mohler’s cancer report
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
From Baptist Press:
Posted on Mar 25, 2008 | by Jeff Robinson LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received good news March 24 from the results of his recent surgery: A tumor removed from his colon is not cancerous.
Mohler, 48, underwent surgery March 20 to remove what was believed to [...]
Blog update
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have not been blogging the last few days simply because I have been ministering to a dear friend and his family as he is dying and heading to glory. I have not had to time to sit down to write much of anything.
But here are some noteworthy articles that have been posted by [...]
Resurrection Morning!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
For the music
Here the bells ringing
They’re singing that you can be born again
Here the bells ringing
They’re singing Christ is risen from the dead
The angel up on the tombstone
Said He has risen, just as He said
Quickly now, go tell his disciples
That Jesus Christ is no longer dead
Joy to the word, He has risen, hallelujah
He’s risen, hallelujah
He’s [...]
Witnesses of the Resurrected Christ
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is a helpful chart showing the 11 recorded post-resurrection appearances of Jesus in the NT. I am not sure that I understand #1 as this was just the announcement of His resurrection, so I think #2 is actually the first appearance. Other than that a helpful chart!
May God grant you a blessed Resurrection Sunday! [...]
Preparing for Resurrection Sunday (Pt. 6)
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
John Piper answers the question: What has God accomplished by raising Jesus from the dead? In answering the question he urges us to let these truths revive our passion for the supremacy of God over all things!
Christ’s physical suffering
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Written over 20 years ago and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, this article goes into graphic detail about the physical pain that Jesus would have endured in his beatings and crucifixion–which pales, of course, to the spiritual and emotional pain of bearing the wrath of his Father on behalf of God’s [...]
Preparing for Resurrection Sunday (Pt. 5)
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
When we say Christ died for sinners, we mean that he died in our place, in our stead.
But Christ also died for God! Not in the sense “in his stead” but for His glory and because of His love for the Father. Christ declares, “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do [...]
Jesus Christ: Pierced for our transgressions
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
As we think about the cross Jesus Christ bore for our sins this week, we must remember theat the atonement of Jesus Christ as our Subsitute is under immense attack. So this post from the Christian Research Net is timely:
The Emergent and Neo-Liberal attacks against the Biblical teaching of the Penal Substitutionary Atonement is a [...]
