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last wednesday i did a short segment at our ignite service. i did a word study on the word “family” from the old and new testaments.
here’s the audio (7 minutes) and transcript
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the gospel of grace of God needs great improvement - at least, so i am informed - but i know that it is no business of mine to improve it, my part is to act upon it. no doubt many would improve God Himself from off the face of the earth, if they could. they would improve the Atonement until it vanished.
the dispute is not between us and modern thought, but between God and the wisdom of men…call it what you like, it is in the Book from which we derive our authority.
my brethren, we are at this present hour set for the defense of the gospel.
these are times of drifting: men have pulled up their anchors and are driven to and fro with winds and tides of diverse kinds. as for me, i have in this hour of danger not only let down the great bower anchor, but i have cast four anchors out of the stern. that may be quite the wrong place, but in these times we need anchoring both fore and aft.
Charles Spurgeon {An All-Round Ministry} pg 263-264 selections
what has your blog been saying?
find out, then come back here and tell me about it with a link and a hello.
as of August 2008, here’s who’s in my google reader by category:
family
friends
andrew feil
bryan feil
carson belmont
casey belmont
densie feil
jason munoz
katie wiebe
luke mundy
mike fast
patrick mundy
paul davison
rachel mundy
eric riley
sarah mundy
sean munoz
the obwalds
the rileys
the whitmores
tiffany aicklen
miscellaneous*
engadget
lifehacker
the apple blog
wpcandy
wp lover*these folks are not christians, so i can’t vouch for their content whatsoever
ministry
britt merrick
francis chan
going to 11
greg laurie
heal your church website
ken ham
live to worship
reflections on the ministry
roll over menno**
simple life in Christ
skip heitzig**roll over menno has recently quit updating, but will remain archived
music
trying it out
billy chia
bittbox
good-tutorials.com photography tutorials
good-tutorials.com photoshop tutorials
who do you think i’m missing and should add?
if you’re like me then (for our purposes today) you both own a macbook and are somewhat right of center on the swarthy scale.
the problem that arises is that, after a while, your macbook, as lovely and advanced as it is, starts developing brown stains on the palm rests and over-used keys.
recently, i was quite forlorn as i saw the word ‘return’ less and less, drowned in a sea of dried-italian-sweatiness.
but, if you’re like me, there is redemption.
pick up a pack of mr. clean magic erasers, get one wet, thoroughly wring it out, then gently scrub the swarthed areas. the result is a brand new macbook! (well, externally anyway. mr. clean is not responsible for what you clutter up your harddrive with)
seriously, it’s a miracle product. there is no longer any trace of my brown palm sweat-salt…at least for a while.
don’t be afraid.
be like me.
this weekend i’ll be headed north to california’s sequoia lake for our church’s family camp. we used to do a camp every year, but have taken a 12 year hiatus…so…needless to say, i’m excited to get back to my childhood memories.
hopefully i’ll spend a little time taking pictures and not just having boats of fun.
don’t worry…i have some nice posts all scheduled out for you faithful, non-family-camping readers.
blessings
Charles Spurgeon {An All-Round Ministry} pg 271-272
wow…this is probably the first time i have ever opened up my google reader in the morning and none of the people in my ‘friends’ category had posted.
not a one.
you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
today’s positive post is about God.
that’s right. God. the God of the Bible.
it may seem silly, but when we stop to consider all that our Savior has done for us and continues to do for us we can not help but be filled with a sense of His splendor and care.
today’s positivity is about our Lord because He doesn’t coerce. He reveals. He demonstrates and examples. we serve a God who has worked much longer and harder on doing things for us than asking things of us. He is the God who died for us while we were yet sinners. a God who offers grace and peace and mercy and forgiveness to us while we are still in rebellion to Him. He offers those things knowing that many of the people on the earth will never accept Him.
God doesn’t fill our lives with His abundance because He’s trying to buy our favor and our energy. He’s not trying to convince us to join His company so that His productivity will increase. He does so because He loves us. He does so because He knows what a relationship (not a set of obligations) with Him will mean to our lives and to the lives of the people around us.
God has done great things. our activity, our ministry, our Christian service should all be motivated by the amazing realization of what God has done for us.
though we often think and hear otherwise, but God doesn’t come to you with a challenge. He comes to you with an offer. will we accept forgiveness? will we accept His grace? if so, will we accept the life that He has made for us?
when we share Christ with others, when we minister in our churches and our communities, we shouldn’t focus on what people need to be doing for God. instead we should focus on what God has already done for us.
it was God’s free grace that motivated the man set free from demons to proclaim the gospel throughout his community.i it was the miraculous restoration that motivated peter’s mother-in-law to get up and serve. ii it was Jesus’ forgiveness that motivated the multitudes to glorify God.iii
God has wielded all of heaven and earth that He might interact with you. He has sacrificed to the utmost and endured the fiercest rebellion that He might come to you and to me and say, “I love you.” His motivation is love. it’s relationship. it’s mercy.
our God is amazing.
be positive!