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Bryan Crawford Loritts is an African-American pastor I listen to occasionally in Memphis. I first heard a message he preached at the 2008 Desiring God Conference for Pastors. His testimony about the challenge of treasuring and respecting your racial culture and being redeemed to be a part of the kingdom of God echoes true with…

Here is an update from Sudan. I know many of you are praying with me for God to show Himself strong on behalf of those who are weak and for the gospel to turn wicked men back to Jesus. Keep Praying – Pastor Joe Thursday, June 16, 2011 Kimberly’s Birthday Wish—warning! Contains sensitive pictures. Today’s…

MAKE WAY PARTNERS MINISTRY gives the following update on what is going on in Sudan. It is horribly graphic and so evil. May God turn their hearts and protect His own and the innocent. Friday, June 3, 2011 New Attack in Sudan Lual Atak called me yesterday to let me know the Islamic government has re-employed…

“Christians are never more than poor beggars telling other poor beggars where to buy bread.” DA Carson

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 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…

esterday a reader of this site sent me a link to an interesting series of blog posts—posts written by Pastor Akira Sato, who is the pastor for the Fukushima First Baptist Church, near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The email included this poignant paragraph:”Yesterday (Friday, March 18) one member who has been with us…