Earlier today I was reviewing a book called “Sacred Marriage,” which, in my opinion, is one of the best books available on understanding the purpose of marriage. Here are some comments from the author concerning marriage, which are in no particular order of importance. Marriage is full of challenges, joys, struggles, and celebrations that are designed to…
and the “mini-guide” to life it provides. Read and enjoy.
This issue comes up all the time with high school and college students, as well as young adults that I have personally talked to. Just several years ago a friend of mine who is currently in the ministry and doing wonderful things called me to ask me what I would do if I had found…
I, along with several of my fellow pastors, had the privilege of meeting and talking with Dr. Ed Stetzer this past week at the Youth Pastor Summit in Orlando, FL (thanks to Dr. Jimmy Scroggins) – he’s a brilliant man (Dr. Stetzer…and Jimmy too!) with an astute insight for trends within the Christian culture, particularly the church-at-large. …
This past Wednesday I taught our Discovering Oak Park Class, which is a class for those who are (1) interested in understanding what it means to be a member at Oak Park, (2) those who need to attend the class for the purposes of completing their membership or those (3) who have questions about what it means to…
I finished reading a book called “Counsel from the Cross – Connecting Broken People to the love of Christ” by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Dennis E. Johnson several months ago and wanted to repost some comments from a post I made months ago. If you haven’t read the book you should – it’s remarkably insightful and gospel-saturated. I…
In the “About Me” section of my blog I stated that I would write about things that I love (Jesus, my wife, my daughter, etc.) and books that I read or were currently reading. That being said, I’d like to share a brief summary of Paul Miller’s newest book “A Praying Life” (we’ll see…
Here is the entirety of Dr. Whitney’s article. Read, enjoy, reflect and then purpose to do…whatever it is you believe God might have you do. Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging…
I’m currently reading a book by Michael Horton called The Gospel-Driven Life. I have thoroughly enjoyed the book and will give a brief review later but for now I just wanted to share some comments he makes concerning repentance, which I found to be very helpful. Horton starts by quoting Psalm 51:1-9 – David’s prayer of…
I’m currently rereading C. J. Mahaney’s book Humility: True Greatness because I’m a proud man and through the grace of Christ I want to crush my pride and manifest humility in my life. Just recently I have had several incredible opportunities to exemplify humility, but instead chose to exemplify pride, which made me realize that I…
