“I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said about me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten thousand angels swearing I was right would not…
"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6
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Tim Challies posted this quote of John Owen. I don’t know if there is any truth more powerful than this. Here is a beautiful and powerful quote from John Owen who calls on you to rejoice in the love of God (It is taken from Communion with the Triune God). Owen says rightly that knowing…
These last couple weeks, Jack left for Kenya and I got sick, but life goes on in Tanzania. We spent time in Engikaret with Maasai, went out to visit some HIV widows and children in Arusha, been working on Faces 4 Hope information and attended several parties for Hannah’s 4th B’day, along with a trip…
I was asked to submit my top five quotes today for a project on parenting, coaching and life. This list would change most any time depending on when I was asked but these are some good ones. Here they are if you are interested. My Top 5 would all be Bible verses so I gave…
Tim Challies had a great blog post about forgiveness. It was birthed out of an incident in his own life where he had to ask for forgiveness. I found it very helpful for me and as I work on it in my life, perhaps the Lord will let it become the norm in our faith…
I am reading a book by Carl F. Ellis Jr. titled “Free at Last?”. It is about the gospel in the African-American Experience. Carl Ellis is president of Project Joseph, a ministry dedicated to the reformation and renewal of the church. He also serves as director of development for Oxford Graduate School in Crystal Springs,…
Sickness is meant… 1. To make us think—to remind us that we have a soul as well as a body—an immortal soul—a soul that will live forever in happiness or in misery—and that if this soul is not saved we had better never have been born. 2. To teach us that there is a world…
Dr. Jim Hamilton, the guest teacher the past two weeks at Preacher School, wrote a good article about sports. I’m having my kids all read it and plan to forward it on to teams I coach. Hope it is a blessing to you. Better to Honor God Than to Win by JMHon March 8, 2011in…
Tonight in preacher school several questions were asked of our gifted teacher, Dr. Jim Hamilton, as to how to take the great truths of God’s glory in salvation through judgment and teach them to children. Our Father wants us to understand. I found this blog by another good friend, David Gunderson, to be a help.…
Come to worship this Lord’s Day, February 19th and hear the Apostle Paul’s answer to this question as he writes to the Corinthians in chapter 8. I am looking forward to worshipping together with you.