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Are you serving?

“The world estimates your importance by how many people are serving YOU. God estimates your importance by how many people YOU are serving”–Trevin Wax
Convicting!
Ask yourself today, “Who am I serving today? How many people am I serving?  How am I serving others?  Am I serving others intentionally?”
Scripture so beautifully brings it home.
For you were called [...]

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Posts du jour 12.13.09

John MacArthur’s post on the Unholy Trinity is a must read!  High octane, no-holds-bar, vintage MacArthur on the prosperity gospel. If you only have time to read one post today read this one!
Do you feel information overload?  This graph explains why. (HT: Challies)
Want to pray more effectively for your wife?  For your husband?  Here’s a [...]

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From Pink’s The Attributes of God:

Be more careful in our obedience (Psalm 36:7)
Strengthen our faith
Stimulates greater worship (Psalm 63:3)
A cordial to the depressed (Psalm 119:76)
Our plea in prayer (Psalm 119:159)
Our appeal when we sin against God (Psalm 51:1)
Our petition every evening–”Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love” (Psalm 143:8)

In what way do [...]

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Just when you thought you have heard everything.  . . . Gene Veith has the scoop:
Another way to make your church relevant! Preach a whole sermon series about tattoos. And during the sermon, have someone actually getting a tattoo so the whole congregation can watch. From the Tuscaloosa News:
The sight of a woman being tattooed live [...]

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#19!

Scott Lamb at WORLD announces:
Congratulations to the “18 Kids and Counting” Duggar family as Michelle gave a very-early welcome to their 19th child, Josie Brooklyn:
Cable network TLC says 43-year-old Michelle Duggar gave birth to a 1-pound, 6-ounce daughter Thursday night during an emergency cesarean section. She had been due March 18.
Just yesterday I read an RNS interview [...]

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Loving worms

“Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior”, David cries out in prayer in Psalm 17:7.   Let’s join with him in seeking to understand God’s love to us who are undeserving of His goodness!
“Marvelous it is that One so infinitely above us, so inconceivably glorious, so ineffably holy, should not only notice such worms of the [...]

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How sad, but how true!
(HT:  Eisdoxan)

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Here’s an interesting combination of articles this week.
John MacArthur has started a series of posts on  the health and wealth gospel which he calls a “colossal fraud.” The opening article begins,
“Former NASDAQ chairman Bernie Madoff ran a ponzi-scheme swindle for nearly 20 years, and he bilked an estimated $18 billion from Wall-Street investors. When the [...]

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Ever wanted to know. . .

how many German, French or Italians have to give to equal what the average American gives to charity?
how much Americans give to charity? how much Americans spend at Walmart? which is more?  how much Walmart gives to charity?
the #1 reason the wealthiest people say they don’t give more?
how much of your [...]

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This Sunday night Extreme Makeover, the very popular TV show, will feature a house that was completely “made over” in Erie, PA.  At least one member of our congregation was involved in the process and she was very excited about it. Lots of people working together for a common cause to give someone a new [...]

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