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My quote for the blog today comes not from John Owen, or Thomas Watson, not from Charles Spurgeon or David Wells. It is actually from someone I am closer to, someone I love much more. I won’t tell you her name (so as not to embarrass her) but…

Most of us have a mindset. We did not deliberately choose to have this mindset, as if we picked it off shelf and tried it on. Rather we grew into this mindset as a part of our environment. “Comfort is good. Pain is bad.” “More…

Sunday night we attended Shepherding Group at Scott and Grace Tucker’s house. The group leader that night was Keith Kenyon. What a great small group leader! He taught clearly while at the same time engaging input from everyone in the group. We …

The will of God and the will of man. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Acts 2:22-24 Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your mids…

Romans 3:19-22 19Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20For by works of the law no human being will be ju…

Announcing new posts that will be new for some of you. For the next couple of weeks we will be posting some of the stuff that was up here in 2006 and 2007 when the blog first began. We chose several posts which were favorites among our vast reade…

Some Bible teachers have a powerful way of distilling wisdom. These uniquely gifted ones can summarize an entire book of the Bible, with its many passages and arguments, most helpfully. John Stott is one such teacher. Here is a section from his comm…

Do you disagree? I hope you do. Disagreement is essential to constructive conversation. Without disagreement there can be no growth down here on the earth. Do you know how to disagree constructively and effectively? I want to do so and I find t…

Here is the verse we read, discussed, and prayed about in elders meeting this morning: Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith you follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. Hebrews 13:7 Obse…

If morally serious and intelligent debate is the lifeblood of democracy, then accurate information, widely disseminated, serves the same function in democracy as red blood cells do in the human body: Accurate information is the oxygen supply that all…