Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jun 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I read this story in Dallimore’s Whitefield and I thought it was pretty funny. Lord Bolingbroke was a very learned man who came to listen to Whitefield preach. At the time GW was preaching to the Lords and Ladies of England, praying that the Lord would open their hearts as their wealth and [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jun 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
I say, “No.” Just read Mark Dever’s blog article entitled, “Where’d All These Calvinists Come From? Part 1 of 10,” and you’ll see that many of those at Together for the Gospel in 2006 were under the age of 30. The funny thing is that so many Emerging Church folk are looking for [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts, Wellspring on Jun 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
We’ve been having VBS for our church this week. Linda Ham, who is our Children’s Director has done an outstanding job as usual (kudos to Linda). And my wife and me are leading worship together (she’s leading, I’m just supporting). We haven’t done this since we first began Wellspring back in 1999. [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jun 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I am really enjoying this second volume of Arnold Dallimore’s Whitefield bio. I am amazed by a couple of things thus far:
1. George Whitefield was very gracious. Dallimore recounts John Cennick’s conversion to the Moravians. This is significant because JC was Whitefield’s right hand man. GW had placed Cennick in [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday was “Pray for North Korea” day (I don’t know who gives this designation. We just got a letter in the mail saying it was so.) So instead of having our usual devotional using Catherine Vos’ Story of the Bible, we used this night to pray for one of the most closed countries [...]
Posted in Culture, Sexuality on Jun 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have lobbied hard for those in my church to treat and dress girls, not as worldly princesses, but as princesses of the Most High God (John 1:12). It’s hard though because our culture is pushing sexuality on girls like never before. As I have been processing adultery and lust ebcause of last [...]
Posted in Sermons, The Ten Commandments on Jun 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
You Shall Not Commit Adultery
Exodus 20:14
Introduction
Imagine a married man with three children going on a business trip. He is also a strong believer, a person who firmly trusts in Christ and genuinely is trying to live in light of the Gospel. He is in a city for only a few days and on [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Jun 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Some of you might know this, but I’m going to South Africa again on a short-term mission to work with Hands at Work. Our team has a new blog that will keep the church and anyone else updated on the goings on. We’re actually going to try to post up-to-date youtube videos while [...]
Posted in Asian-Americanism, Culture on Jun 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
David Park has an interesting post called “Terms of Salvation–Cultural or Not At All.” He quotes a couple of blogs, one of which says:
I think what we’re seeing with AA’s is an unquestioning willingness to baptize wholesale white ownership of the Gospel even if it comes as an expense to their own identity and [...]
Posted in Bibllical Reflections on Jun 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
I grew up thinking that John Wesley was one of the progenitors of revival during the Great Awakening. Later, I came to see that Wesely wasn’t all he was proposed to be by pro-Wesleyans, but still appreciated his pursuit of God and his humble chracter. But as I read this second volume of [...]
