After Nanie, my wife’s grandmother, was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer last March, she said that if she was facing death, she wanted to display how a Christian lady dies. She did just that, living a life in those last months that taught all who knew her a little more about faith, hope and love. Before passing [...]
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cancer, suffering and the gospel
Posted in encouragement, gospel, Uncategorized on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
worrying? shift focus to Christ
Posted in encouragement on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In these days of uncertainty it’s easy for many to fall into the stress of worry and anxiety about meeting even the most basic of family needs. I am no stranger to this either. As I face the reality of being a father, at times the worries of life can overtake my vision so that that’s all [...]
reading highlights from this morning
Posted in encouragement on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two gems from some morning reading. First this: “Gladly would I leave behind / All the idols I have known, / Since I bear inscribed the likeness / Of a more exalted One; / Worthy of unending worship, / Love, and reverence is He; / By His precious death were myriads / From the jaws [...]
what am i thankful for? right standing with God.
Posted in christianity, encouragement, Faith, gospel, grace, justification, Uncategorized on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On a day of giving thanks I have been compelled again to give thanks for the greatest gift: The gift of Christ’s life, death and resurrection given for all who would trust in him for the forgiveness of sins and right standing with God. I was greatly encouraged this morning in reading Thomas Cranmer’s great work on [...]
john 15:5
Posted in christ, christianity, encouragement, prayer on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“… for apart from me you can do nothing.” Jesus’ words in John 15 are ringing in my ears. “Apart from me you can do nothing.” Nothing. Nothing, that is of eternal significance. Eternal significance, that is, being the only thing that matters. Am I living like this is the truth? Would a detailed daily [...]
the priesthood of believers: a privilege and a responsibility
Posted in christian community, encouragement, prayer, Uncategorized on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One area in which I hope to grow this fall (and continually throughout my life!) is in interceding for my brothers and sisters in this global Christ-created family. I’ve known the exhortations to do this (James 5:16, for example) and the examples of this (John 17), but what I’m learning in actually participating in it [...]
a wedding ring for His bride
Posted in christ, christian community, daniel akin, encouragement, evangelism, gospel, missions, sebts on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I know that this is a repeat for some of you, assuming that I have some overlap of readers with Bryan. But it’s worth sharing for the rest of you… In light of our effort to be a “Great Commission Seminary,” Southeastern has been taking up a special offering this week for international missions, as [...]
thank you, “anonymous”
Posted in christian community, encouragement on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was so surprised by the words of the accounting department worker on Friday that I had to ask her to repeat herself. She had told me, after I asked her the balance on my account at SEBTS and expected to hear somewhere along the lines of my monthly rent bill + a small late fee [...]
