Watch this short video by Paul David Tripp on the truth that everyone is a counselor. The question remains are we counseling in accordance to the truth of Scripture, specifically the culminating work found in the person of Jesus Christ?
Watch this short video by Paul David Tripp on the truth that everyone is a counselor. The question remains are we counseling in accordance to the truth of Scripture, specifically the culminating work found in the person of Jesus Christ?
If you were to explain to someone how to find a church, what would you say and where in the world would you start? Is finding a church family a lot like some of the criteria we put forth when looking to date someone? “Yes, I would like a church that is witty, always available…
The Anatomy of Adultery from A Man and His Marriage material: Unintentional neglect of each other in your marriage. Both the friendship, and the physical intimacy begin to wane. Someone of the opposite sex is really kind to you. They notices you, compliments you, affirms you, and you feel respected. The compliment turns into a conversation. Maybe…
I read Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor several years ago and as I read it I underlined a number of sentences, as well as wrote wow, ouch and many other words due to the insight Baxter offered. If you haven’t read it I’d encourage you to do so. To make it easy I’ve uploaded The Reformed Pastor as a FREE pdf so you can…
As a pastor whose primary job is to preach the word I struggle from week-to-week with questions I can ask to determine the “effectiveness” of my preaching. Dr. Lawless’ questions are questions that 1) I’m going to implement in a weekly evaluation of my preaching and 2) questions I’m going to give to some men in…
1. God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation. 2. God is Lord and King over his world; he rules all things for his own glory, displaying his perfections in all that he does, in order that men and angels may worship and adore…
What are the long-term results of anger or as Jerry Bridges calls it in his book Respectable Sins: Confronting The Sins We Tolerate, “weeds of anger”? Bridges’ selected the word “weeds” because they seem to be a nuisance that you constantly have to get rid of, with the obvious correlation that the following “weeds of anger” will…
This was shared with me this morning — I wanted to pass it on. Thanks for reading. Heartbroken. Discouraged. Forgotten. That’s how I feel today. I’m sitting at my computer inside because the annual haze in my city is getting worse and it’s not particularly good for my five children to be out breathing it…
“The fool says in his heart, ‘there is no God’” (Psalm 14:1). Most quote this verse as a proof-text for those that declare themselves to be atheist. However, this verse isn’t a philosophical declaration that God doesn’t exist but rather a confident affirmation that God is unconcerned about how men live morally and ethically. God is…
Theology Along the Way 