Posted in Christian life, death on November 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Solomon wrote, “The day of death is better than the day of birth” (Ecclesiastes 7:1).
“A stunning truth for believers in Jesus: our death date is far more significant than our birth date. Birth dates signal the inauguration of trouble and hardship that will hound us every day that we live. However, the moment of death, for believers, signals the eternal end to the afflictions of what it is to be a human being.”–David Sitton, Reckless Abandon, p. 193
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, Will Varner on November 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A commentary by Dr. Will Varner of The Master’s College! [He is one of our daughter’s favorite instructors!] Yeah!
On Logos! Double Yeah!
For an amazingly low price! Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Check it out!
And I can hardly wait till his more expansive commentary in Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series is available!
Posted in Christian life, Missions, persecution, suffering, tagged mission, persecution, suffering on November 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in hope, marriage, tagged hope, marriage on November 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I have not listened to this yet, but I have heard from many quarters that this broadcast is powerful, hope-giving, and compelling. I will let Thabiti give you a summary:
Last night my wife and I remained awake well past our bedtime, riveted to the story of Dean and Julie Peterson. Their story is a powerful account of God’s grace in restoring what appeared to be an utterly hopeless marriage. Revive Our Heart offers the interview in four parts. In a day where people have so little hope for difficult marriages, you will want to hear this interview and share it with friends. It won’t be a magic cure, but it just might demonstrate that people in bad marriages (30 years of unfaithfulness and lovelessness) can with the Lord’s help repair and thrive. This four-parter is well worth the hour-and-a-half or so it takes to listen.
Part 1: “Brokenness in Marriage“: Dean and Julie Petersen’s marriage began after a date rape and appeared to be over after a number of adulterous relationships. Dean was planning on killing his pastor. His wife went to this pastor for counseling and ended up in an adulterous relationship with him.
Part 2: “Is Love More Than Feelings?” Julie received a two-second hug from a co-worker. That set her on a descent into lust.
Part 3: “How Bitterness Can Lead to Impurity” Bitterness can lead to all sorts of other destructive sins. Discover the danger of bitterness in a marriage and learn to find freedom from it.
Part 4: “Seeing Your Husband for the First Time” Once romantic feelings of love are gone, is it possible to get them back? After resenting her husband, Julie Peterson started acting loving toward him.
Posted in technology, time management, tagged technology, time management on November 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
3 tactics for making sure the internet doesn’t suck up all your time:
1) Turn your IM off
2) Check your email less frequently
3) Schedule time for social media
This article from Fast Company explains how and why!
Posted in Prayer, suffering, trials, tagged Prayer, suffering, trials on November 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in technology, tagged technology on November 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Missions, tagged Missions on November 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell”–C. T. Studd
Read here about the life of this man who demonstrated reckless abandon for the sake of missons in several countries! A man who was forward looking and risk-taking for the gospel!
Posted in books, tagged books, christian ebooks on November 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Ok, well the books aren’t about heaven! But the price will put you in e-book heaven!
Kindles are flying off the shelf this season I’m told, but again you don’t need a Kindle to actually read these books! You can read them on any computer with free software!
So where are the books? At Shepherds’ Press. The prices of $0.99 per book for books that normally sell in print for about $12 or so. By the way the ebook price is 90% off the regular ebook price. There’s a dozen or so books at this price covering a whole range of topics. I have not yet been disappointed with one Shepherds Press offering!
Head on over here! Unless they offer them free you probably will never find a better offer! This offer is good through December 31.
Posted in abortion, tagged abortion on November 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“Unless the unborn child is recognized as a person at every point in its development, we are just negotiating our own arbitrary definition of human personhood and human life. The pro-life movement rightly recognized Harry Blackmun’s trimester approach to be deadly to the unborn and disastrous to the cause of human dignity. But the defeat of the personhood amendment in Mississippi indicates that voters there just operate out of a more conservative version of Blackmun’s logic. Given the opportunity to declare the human personhood of every individual from the moment of fertilization onward, voters overwhelmingly said “No.””–Albert Mohler
The above is a quote from Albert Mohler’s essay “We Are Harry Blackmun Now–The Lessons of Mississippi”, which offers a biblical perspective of what happened in the recent election in that state on the so-called personhood amendment. This vote, Mohler argues, demonstrates that we as a nation are not nearly as pro-life as we thought we were. A must read for those interested in the latest developments in the abortion debate in America!
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