Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tyler K points the way to how to benefit from boring passages. He says
1) “Boring” passages are the evidence of God’s faithfulness.
2) “Boring” passages equip us to understand greater spiritual realities.
3) “Boring” passages help us experience what they talk about.
Read this short but helpful article
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just heard this morning of a leader in the church where I grew up going home to be with the Lord. He was very instrumental in starting the Christian school that I attended for 12 years of my life. He was a faithful member of the church choir and held various leadership roles in the church. He was ready to go home to be with Christ because He lived for things that lasted. He loved missions, the church, and had a heart for the mentally disabled. Myron was an example of this quote by Sinclair Ferguson:
Live for things that will last! That is the underlying lesson. Paul has shown us what this means: living for the long-term, and not with an eye on the quick and easy methods of spiritual advance which are so characteristic of false teachers. That means keeping our eyes fixed on eternal realities, on the long-term harvest of our lives, not on short term satisfaction. It means lifting our eyes to the sure promise that Christ will appear again in glory, rather than lowering our eyes to ourselves and our appetites. The only enduring appetite is an appetite of love for Christ and his people. All else will become dust.
Ferguson is commenting on Philippians 3:20-21, “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.” (Philippians 3:20-21, ESV).
