Several people have asked me to share the 10 points I gave Hannah and Tyler at their wedding last week. I am putting the manuscript of the entire wedding charge below. Some of the statements were personally directed towards Tyler and Hannah but I pray the truths will be an encouragement to many. Brother Joe Hannah…
"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6
This kind of thinking helps me. Life is not simple but the core motives of life should never change. I pray John Piper’s words will be an encouragement to you too. Life is not simple. So language is not simple. Different situations in life call for different ways of living. The language that describes those…
“Christians are never more than poor beggars telling other poor beggars where to buy bread.” DA Carson
The Crossway blog has a fascinating interview (reprinted below) with Tim Chester about his new book, A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission Around the Table. You can read the introduction to the book online. What does food have to do with grace, church, and mission? Everything! Just think about how often food…
Tim Challies shares comments from a book by Lou Priolo that I have not read. I am now planning on getting the book. This excerpt is right on and very helpful. I was thinking today about being a people pleaser—a tendency all of us having to varying degrees. Lou Priolo has written a book on…
Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ in China. The Wall Street Journal reports: “Police in Beijing detained more than 30 evangelical Christians as they attempted to gather outdoors for Easter services and confined about 500 to their homes, continuing a broad crackdown on dissent that has also targeted lawyers, bloggers and human-rights…
A few years back, I spent a couple of years reading a lot of John Flavel. He was (is) one of my favorite puritan authors. I haven’t read any of Flavel, to speak of, for the past 10 years but when I ran across this quote on Justin Taylor’s blog I was reminded of why…
I preached through Psalm 22 at Secret Church Saturday night and at one point talked about the phrase in verse 6 “I am a worm.” The Hebrew word for “worm” is translated “scarlet” other places in the Bible. In studying this I ran across an interesting article that I shared from in my message. Several…
If you were unable to listen to last Sunday’s message on Titus 2, I would encourage you to listen to it here: http://springsofgracebiblechurch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/teach-right-live-right-titus-2_1-11-4-10-11.mp3 This message will provide the foundation and framework for the entire study of the chapter.
I found George Mueller’s words today to be packed with benefit. Praying that we will always be a people marked by God’s Word and prayer. Brother Joe It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were…