reminder of what biblical worship is

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Worship is Life.

"Without the life of the worshipper, the act of worship is worthless"(Allen P. Ross, Recalling the Hope of Glory, 33...

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What God's Holiness Demanded His Grace Provided

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Hey folks in the Los Angeles area...

Christ Community Church is hosting a free Evangelism Seminar on Saturday, January 10th from 10am-5pm (lunch will be provided!). One of the elders, Steve Lantz, will be conducting this seminar and it will be excellent. He has entitled it: "No Fear No Guilt Evangelism!"Also, you won't want to miss two sessions on Israel's History and Geography seminar as well as the Old Testament Theology seminar to...

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alarm clock

Today I overslept two and a half hours. Yesterday I overslept an hour and a half. I think it's time to get a new alarm clo...

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Christmas Celebration

Talking with a friend this morning brought to mind the core of the Christmas story, namely, Jesus Christ coming to earth to die. I heard a sermon last week which drove this truth home to my heart as the preacher expounded Matthew 1:18ff and ended up in Isaiah 53. The wonderful truths of these texts...

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Don't Make God a Liar

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Psalm 8 chiasm

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The sovereignty of Jesus in salvation

I read Luke 24 last night and this portion of Scripture struck me anew:Luke 24:44-45 Now He said to them, "These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 45 Then...

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The divine intrusion

This morning I was reading on the virgin birth of our Savior when I came across this quote:"The virgin birth is a sign of God's judgment on human nature. The race needs a redeemer, but cannot itself produce one; not by its own decision or desire, not by the processes of education and civilization, not as a precipitate of its own evolution. The redeemer must come from outside. Here, as elsewhere, 'all...

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True Worship

From Gerald Wilson,"I believe firmly that true worship incorporates acknowledging and repenting of sin. Only then do we realize how totally dependent on God and his gracious mercy we really are" (Psalms: Volume 1, NIVAC, 197).I find this so refreshing and apropos to my life. I concur with Wilson in that worship engages both the heart and the soul which leads to self-examination which then results...

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Are You Waiting for Jesus?

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Christmas concert pictures from the Master's College

These are some pictures from our time at the concert last week:Elizabeth and I at home by our treeElizabeth and baby Kirkland in front of our treeElizabeth and Kelly (formerly in our youth groupnow at Master's College)Kelly and I at Master'sElizabeth and Megan (on the Outreach Week teamto our church)...

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Can the sermon bless the preacher more than the hearers?

Perhaps this can happen. And perhaps this happened on Wednesday of this week at our mid-week service at church. I preached on Psalm 6 and I had a wonderful time. I'm not sure if things came out cohesively and cogently but in my heart and soul, I was greatly edified by God's Word.I don't think I'm overstating...

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The weightiness of preaching

Here's the quote for today:"What gives preaching its seriousness is that the mantle of the preacher is soaked with the blood of Jesus and singed with the fire of hell."John Pip...

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“The Immeasurable Joys and the Incomprehensible Glory of Heaven”

And this was my sermon last Tuesday at church. We are coming near the conclusion of this wonderful-- and understandable!--book in our study of the Sovereign Kingship and victory of Jesus Christ! Here are some quotes I put on the outlines which I thought would also be profitable to post here for your enjoyment and musing. Think, ponder, consider, get excited for heaven (cf. Phil 3:20). Todd Bolen:...

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weekend getaway with the wifey

Elizabeth looking at the Pacific...Yes, this is sparkling cider...I'm a very happy man...

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quiet time interruption

The Lord interrupted my quiet time with this beautiful portrait that He painted this morning:Psalm 113:3-4 From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the LORD is to be praised. The LORD is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens....

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The need for God's Word to see the Savior

In my study for Acts 8 this Sunday morning, I came across this excellent insight by William Kistemaker:"Philip puts a penetrating question to the Ethiopian Eunuch: "Do you understand what you are reading?" This question is basic to confirming the Christian faith, for the Christian knows Christ only through the Scriptures. By reading God's Word, he increases his knowledge of Jesus Christ, his Savior....

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Concluding the book of Revelation

My youth group has journeyed through the book of Revelation with me for the last 6 months or so--week after week. We are coming to the conclusion of the book and to the conclusion of time as we now know it.Last night I did part 2 of our study on hell: "The Shrieking Cries of the Tormented in Hell Manifested." (I have to give it some title to seize the reader's attention.)Here was my outline (it was...

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Hey youth--sign ups are open for our winter retreat

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Hell's terrors

Tonight I have the (weighty) responsibility of preaching on hell. We've been going through Revelation in our Bible Study and we studied the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:11-15) a few weeks ago. Tonight is part two of that sermon.It's overwhelming. I'm not sure what else to say. It's overwhelming because it is so serious--and yet so many Christians think so lightly of hell. I have 10 points to...

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Called According to God's Good Pleasure--A Study on 2 Timothy 1:9

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