Tuesday, June 29, 2010

full of God's food, ready for God's battle.

Just got home from the 2010 RESOLVED conference. I feel overwhelmed and overly-full from God's Word being faithfully and boldly proclaimed over the course of 3+ days of Bible teaching. It's conferences like this that I wonder to myself: I have so much to take in and apply to my life I need to take a...

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010

God's control and sovereign working in our salvation.

I wholeheartedly concur with John Piper: We do not cause the new birth. God causes the new birth. Any spiritually good thing that we do is a result of the new birth, not a cause of the new birth. This means that the new birth is taken out of our hands. It is not in our control. And so it confronts us with our helplessness and our absolute dependence on Someone outside ourselves. (Finally Alive,...

a fitting reminder of God's power.

After losing his family, his wealth, his possessions, and his health Job recognizes that God is all-powerful and allowing these (seemingly bad) things to happen in his life. Hear what Job says:Job 12:9-10 That the hand of the LORD has done this, 10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind? But then note how Job continues in his discourse. The sovereign character...

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

the benefit of helpful critiques.

This has been a very busy week for me. The high point was today when I presented twice in my seminar course at Baptist Bible Seminary. The first presentation was on the role of dialogue in preaching and the second presentation covered Hebrews 1:5 and the use of the OT.The interaction with the guys is...

Monday, June 21, 2010

PH11 - PhD In-Class Presentation — NT use of the OT

New Testament Use of the OldFor my in-class presentation for PH11 (Interdisciplinary seminar), follow with me as I walk through the following five examples of how the NT uses the OT. Let's see if/how the author quotes from the OT and if he respects the OT original context.1. Matthew 8:17 --> Isaiah 53:4Matthew 8:17:17 ὅπως πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Ἠσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος, Αὐτὸς...

A friend is FINALLY HOME.

This week we've been celebrating the spiritual homegoing of an elder in our church to be with the LORD forever. He and his wife were one of the young couples in our church with whom Elizabeth and I spent much time together.Today is Tyson's funeral service and though the last few days have demanded that I spend many hours on USAirways it is all worth it.The greatest joy about this situation is that...

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

11 year olds can have condoms -- for free in this school.

From FOXNATION: School to Provide Free Condoms to 11-Year-Olds A New England school district has approved a measure that will provide free condoms to elementary school students and direct teachers not to comply with parental wishes to the contrary.The policy, unanimously approved...

Monday, June 14, 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010

The Christian's best safeguard is knowledge.

The believer in Jesus Christ today is confronted with a multiplicity of heretical cults and thus we urgently need this kind of knowledge."Christians should know the truth and the whole truth; they should be able to detect error, and recognize the times in which they live; they should know the dangerous...

Saturday, June 12, 2010

see the face and glory of God!

"In Jewish tradition, no one was allowed to see God’s face nor speak the holy name. Here, however, the very ‘face’ and ‘name’ of God are manifested to the faithful prophets who have endured until the end. God’s glory—revealed only partially and proleptically before—has finally come to dwell fully among humans as they reign with God in the new temple. This reign of the saints is described as an eternal...

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Validity of the Gospel of Mark

Update (6/10/10):Markan Priority is the view that many (=most) scholars hold that the gospel of Mark was composed first and that Matthew and Luke used Mark as their source material. The material that is NOT in Mark that is found in both Matthew and Luke can be found from a "hypothetical" source called "Q" (from German: Quelle [meaning "source"]). Essentially, this comes from a presupposition and an...

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Prayer after a good day's work.

Praise God for two good days of PhD classes already.Merciful God, in whom is no darkness at all, we come before You at the end of this day. We thank You that You have given us strength for our daily work, and have guided us safely through this day. Bless what was good in our labour and conduct. Since You ordained that man should labour during the day and rest at night, we pray You to give us...

Sunday, June 6, 2010

the call to be a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Just to the left of my desk in my study I have a list of seven questions that keep me accountable. At the top of the list it reads: Questions to ask myself daily as I am in vocational ministry. Here are the seven questions:1. Do I have a love for God's Word?2. Am I willing to make the study of it, and...

Saturday, June 5, 2010

can life bring too much for you to bear?

Rest assured. God is able to help and offers it to those who call upon Him. The Apostle Paul writes:Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us...The wonderful truth here is that God can "do far more abundantly...

Friday, June 4, 2010

Jesus can help.

Hebrews 2:17-18 — Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted....

Thursday, June 3, 2010

what's the problem with the world?

Simple, says John Piper. Missions exists because worship doesn't. There is a disregard for the glory of God and a satisfaction in Christ among all peoples and cultures and nations on the globe.Paul hits it right on: For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is...

The power of a testimony.

Your life story how God redeemed your soul from judgment and transferred you to the realm of His magnificent grace is a powerful tool in sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Even a thousand years before Christ, the psalmist recognized that there is power in a testimony:Psalm 66:16Text:לְכוּ־שִׁמְע֣וּ...

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

"Contemporivation"

See Bob Kauflin's good response to this."Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vim...
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