Today is Valentines Day. What gift are you giving?
For those of you who are married: Do you want to give your husband or wife the greatest possible gift?
Let me tell…
Do you fast? If so, why? How? To what end?
Fred’s sermon last Sunday turned my thoughts to fasting; Michael Oh’s talk at the Desiring God Pastors Conference, “Missions as…
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How do you prepare for corporate worship?
God gave the Israelites extensive regulations regarding how they were to prepare for tabernacle or temple worship; someone who was unprepared was unclean (see the first sermon on Acts 10). Living a normal life in this world could lead to uncleanness; explicit acts of sin were not necessarily involved.
Mark 7, Acts 10, and other passages make clear that the specific cleanliness regulations God gave the Israelites are not binding on Christians today. But those same passages make clear that the picture they provide of the need to prepare ourselves for worship still holds.
So we too must prepare ourselves for worship. How?
Numerous excellent articles related to abortion have been published in the last week. Some are indexed here. This post by John Piper is especially powerful. Two excerpts:
Lincoln: "You say A.…
Check out this video, celebrating God's gift of life, from conception through development in the womb and to birth. Jason French, who is the author of two of the songs…
Listen to the last twelve minutes of John Piper's January 4, 2009 sermon via this link. The entire sermon is excellent and quite unusual; these last twelve minutes focus on…