Christianity
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Remember Whose You Are
“Remember whose you are and that you were bought with a price.” I have used this phrase as my children were heading out for the day…or out on their own. It’s not mine. A wonderful young mom shared this with… Continue reading
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Cool Christians in Politics?
What a sad fate is ours if Doug Wilson’s indictment is true. “Modern evangelicals have a ravenous hunger to be hipper than thou. They have a deep and covetous hunger to be cool” (A Primer on Worship and Reformation, p.… Continue reading
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Manly Sacrifice in the Small Things
A quote from Douglas Wilson’s new book, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families (Thomas Nelson, 2012), caught my attention: “When a man opens the car door for his wife, he is doing far more… Continue reading
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He Knows How We are Formed
“God is not disillusioned with you, because he never had any illusions of you in the first place.” ~Graham Cooke “For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.” ~Psalm 103:14 Continue reading
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What a Secular Counselor Will Never Tell You
In his recent blog post, Justin Taylor highlights what is missing from a secular counselor’s message and offers a compelling premise for saints to seek saints for counseling needs. Taylor reminds us that every counselor brings a “message”: an interpretation… Continue reading
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The Thief “Worry”
Newborn Calvin’s digestive system hasn’t quite kicked in yet. Parents Ashley and Andrew were advised to wait the night then bring him in to Urgent Care for a check up this morning. And so the parent’s “job” of worry begins. … Continue reading
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Sovereign Joy
The five-petaled acronym TULIP is often used to enumerate the main tenets of reformed theology or Calvinism (after John Calvin). However in his message on the Sovereign Joy in the Life and Thought of St. Augustine (and recounted in The… Continue reading
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An Ordained Life
Little Owen Shramek, whose Christian American parents had moved from Minneapolis to the Middle East to work as cross-cultural peacemakers, was born at 24 weeks and lived on this earth for only 20 minutes. In this memorial sermon, Pastor John Piper… Continue reading
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The Anchor Holds Beneath the Veil
One couple’s incredible journey of circumstances that have led to their unshakeable trust in an all-sovereign, good God. Watch the clip if you want a nugget. Watch the whole sermon or read the text if you’d like more insight into… Continue reading
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The Supremacy of Christ by John Piper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGCjawKSFc This is a symphonic sermon jam beautifully assembled by Brent Fischer. I keep it on my desktop to periodically re-play and powerfully remind myself that “there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence… Continue reading
Shooting Over the Horizon 