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“Your testimonies also are my delight; they are my counselors.” – Psalm 119:24
[Today’s post is from Daniel Darling, Senior Pastor of Gages Lake Bible Church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.] It’s hard to understate the passion of first-generation believers. These are believers who were converted to Christianity during their adulthood, many of
Continue readingToday, the citizens of the United States celebrate their independence as a nation. We truly thank and praise God for the political and religious freedoms that we have experienced for so many years. However, there is a lasting freedom—an infinitely
Continue reading7 Dangers of the Internet & Kids – Here is Part 2 of a 4-part series from the Biblical Counseling Coalition. “The World Wide Web is the greatest invention since the printing press. Nothing else has so radically shaped culture,
Continue readingThe common bond experienced by genuine believers in Jesus Christ cannot be fully explained at the human level. It is supernatural, knit in the hearts of believers by the indwelling Spirit of God in accordance with biblical truth. No matter
Continue readingOne of the most beautiful and descriptive phrases pertaining to the early believers is that they experienced “unity of mind” as a direct result of praying together. For example, Acts 1:14 indicates they all prayed “with one mind,” which means
Continue readingEach Friday, a few guys meet at our church over the lunch hour for our Men’s Reading Group. For the past four months, we’ve been reading out-loud together The Exemplary Husband by Stuart Scott. It’s really been an encouraging time
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The Bible is clear. Each of us is a selfish sinner, and so is every other person with whom we have a relationship. Therefore, conflict is inevitable. This never excuses our own sinful actions or attitudes, however, but God’s Word
Continue readingLast fall, I reviewed Dr. Bob Kellemen’s excellent resource, Equipping Counselors for Your Church. I have recently learned that he has made a truckload of teaching resources available for FREE online, including PowerPoint presentations and Appendix Documents. The latest addition is a 4-page
Continue readingSexual Design Lectures & Gay Protestors – Justin Taylor directs us to a couple videos covering how Doug Wilson’s recent teaching at Indiana University was received. A Review of ‘The Excellent Wife‘ – “This book is an excellent resource for
Continue readingI was recently encouraged by this poem sent to me from a friend. So, I thought I’d remember the relay races from Elementary School days and pass the encouragement on to you. Light after darkness, gain after loss, Strength after
Continue reading“I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy” (Ps 116:1). The psalmist’s honesty is naked. “I love the Lord,” he says, “And here is why. He hears me.” There is nothing articulate in
Continue readingPerhaps it was her blindness and poverty that kept Fanny Crosby acutely focused on eternal things. No doubt it was this eternal perspective that produced much of her joy. She had one hymn she kept private most of her life.
Continue readingA reading Christian is a growing Christian. A non-reading Christian is a shrinking one. The reason this is true is that the Christian life is never static. We are always moving in one direction or the other. Our mind is
Continue readingMatthias Media has a great little evangelistic tool called Two Ways to Live. The strength of TWTL as a gospel outline is that it explains the gospel of Jesus Christ in the context of the overarching story of the Bible,
Continue readingLong-suffering is one of the most comforting attributes of God to His children who choose to meditate on it. To know that it is this quality of God that led me to repentance unto salvation in 1984, and continues to
Continue readingBeing able to do nothing more than sit in my recliner recovering from hernia surgery, I am catching up on reading articles I’ve printed off in the past few months. Here’s a selection that I personally found helpful to my
Continue readingToday, many experts in the Church are weighing on the best way to transfer faith from generation to generation. Personally, I think much of the hand-wringing misses a central point: that every human being enters the world with a depraved
Continue readingDuring a recent visit to Princeton Theological Seminary, I was privileged to visit the historical room inside the library, which is in the process of being remodeled and expanded. One rare, glass-encased book displayed there is Letters on Clerical Manners
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By God’s grace, I’m a husband, dad, grandpa, and pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Hts, OH. I love Christ because He first loved me.
