Post-Conference Thought

What a weekend this has been at 2007 Desiring God National Conference! Thank you Lord!
We’ve closed our church this weekend so that many of us can attend. That’s one of the benefits for being a church-plant and having people that are so flexible and hungering for God’s truth. Not only we all have been edified, [...]

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Additional Thoughts on Glorifying God in the Congregation

Jim has done a good job reminding us of the privilege and responsibility bringing glory to God in the local congregation. I haven’t listened to his message (I am sure he handled the Word well).
I wanted to add a few more thoughts that may be of some help. (Perhaps he covered them in his message.) [...]

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Seven Ways How God is Glorified in the Local Church

After finishing a long 10-week series on the Disciples’ Prayer, last Sunday I decided to take a break from the Sermon on the Mount and preached Acts 3:1-10. I enjoy reading, studying, and preaching the book of Acts because the book is filled with actions and adventures. Although the title in our English Bible has [...]

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Five Ways Satan Attacks the Church

Currently, I and the men in our church are studying and reading through John MacArthur’s commentary on 1 Timothy (Chicago: Moody, 1995). In chapter 4 “Fighting the Noble War” MacArthur deals with the text “This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them [...]

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The Disciples’ Prayer, the Sermon on the Mount, and Matthew

Last Sunday I’ve finally finished a ten-week series on the Disciples’ Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). I don’t know how many of you guys have preached a long series like that, but for me it feels a bit like finishing a long marathon or a long road-trip. I feel exhausted yet excited, edified, equipped, confronted, convicted, corrected, [...]

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Piper on Present Problems in the Pulpits

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Expressing Christian Sympathy

While reading the helpful book Christ in The Camp, I have been struck by the expressions of Godward sympathy in the various letters recorded in this book. What hope and comfort these notes must have given to those grieving parents, spouses, and siblings of the fallen Confederate soldiers.

Christ in the Camp is a record of [...]

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The 10 Year Anniversary for the MacArthur Study Bible

 

I’ve been greatly helped by it over the years, and I know our church appreciates it too. Praise the Lord.
Since its first publication, this study Bible now has reached over 1 million copies! Wow!
Read rest of the story here.

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Our View of Others Within the Congregation

Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp wrote a book published by New Growth Press in 2006 called How People Change. In chapter 5, Change is a Community Project, the authors present a list of obstacles and how people view relationships with the congregation. After reading the list, do any of these apply to [...]

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God-Centered Funerals

In light of the recent home-going of long-time pastor, D. James Kennedy, I would like to revisit something I mentioned in my last post. Here are some suggestions to make the funerals we participate in more God-centered and distinctly Christian.
 

Make God the focus, and not the casket. I am certain that the person in the [...]

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