"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6

Death-Defying Faith for Gospel Ministry

A Death Defying Gospel – by Denny Burk I was stunned last week when one of my colleagues told me that he didn’t care whether or not he died from Swine Flu. We were talking about the flu season and how the much ballyhooed Swine Flu might affect our campus, and he was simply not very…

Dependent upon the Holy Spirit ???

We are a part of a religious system today in our culture that has created a whole host of means & methods for doing church which work with or without the Holy Spirit of God. – (notes from a message by Rex Blankenship in early 1990’s on cultural Christianity). May God help us to be…

Biblically Informed Self-Knowledge

As a new Christian in 1930, C. S. Lewis was learning terrible things about his heart—the unfathomable layers of pride. It is astonishing how similar his description of his own heart was to the description Jonathan Edwards gave of our inscrutable strata of self-admiration. Here is Lewis writing to his friend, Arthur, amazingly within a…

The Habit of Private Prayer

The Habit of Private Prayer via J.C. Ryle Quotes by Erik on 8/19/09 “What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray…

The Holy Spirit

Beginning a series within a series…due to Christ’s teachings in our current study in the Gospel of John we will for the next few weeks conduct a Biblical survey of the Holy Spirit…who is He and what is His role? Click here for the first installment in this series. Every time we say, ‘I believe…

Husbands – Be Like Christ – by C.S. Lewis

John Piper spoke yesterday about the husband’s role as head. He did so by quoting C.S. Lewis. I thought it was tremendously thought provoking. Read it below. What follows is one of the greatest reasons for a man to get married and stay married: not the rapturous flame of eros, but the refining fires of…

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