One of the great gifts of living past middle age has been the opportunity for meaningful connections with younger women. Through conversations about faith, parenting, or the challenges of ministry, I hear their hopes for stronger marriages and sympathize with their sleep-deprived discouragement over whatever discipline challenges their kids are dishing out. I’m thankful when…
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Start with God, Stay with God: 1 Timothy 2:1–4, Part 1
What is Look at the Book? You look at a Bible text on the screen. You listen to John Piper. You watch his pen “draw out” meaning. You see for yourself whether the meaning is really there. And (we pray!) all that God is for you in Christ explodes with faith, and joy, and love.…
You are my resting place
You are my resting place Posted by appolus on October 4, 2024 Wrote this about a month ago to describe who the Lord was (and is) to me in the midst of the cancer….bro Frank This entry was posted on October 4, 2024 at 2:32 pm and is filed under worship, worship music. You can follow…
Lighten My Load or Strengthen My Back
Amid the hardest, most grueling trial I have endured, prayer became my lifeline. During that time, a friend sent me a prayer that I ended up pinning to my bulletin board: “Lord, please lighten my load or strengthen my back.” These became the words I whispered to God throughout the day. I needed God to…
Who are the chosen?
Who are the chosen? Posted by appolus on October 3, 2024 2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Many are called, few are chosen! How mysterious is the words of the Lord? Who are the called? Who are the chosen?…
Joy’s Triumph over Spiritual Sloth
Audio Transcript Welcome to October. This month we’re celebrating the Reformation together — Martin Luther’s great stand against the pope and against Rome’s spiritual abuses and theological errors. Luther did not stand alone, of course. Other men stood for this same cause, before and after him — people like John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Thomas Cranmer,…
The Beauty of Reformed Theology
I love Reformed theology (the doctrines of grace, the five points of Calvinism) the way I love a cherished picture of my wife. If I said, “I love that picture,” would you say to me, “But that’s not your wife. That’s a picture. You shouldn’t love a picture. You should love your wife”? If you…
Christian in Name Only: Missing the Heart of True Faith
In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, we meet a man named “Formalist.” As Bunyan describes elsewhere, Formalist . . . is a man that has lost all but the shell of religion. He is hot, indeed, for his form; and no marvel, for that is his all to contend for. But his form being without the…
Where hope is born!
Where hope is born! Posted by appolus on October 1, 2024 Isn’t it remarkable where hope is born? Its not where you think it would be. Its not in a good report or favorable circumstances, that’s the hope that is in the world. According to our Scripture hope is born in tribulation. We find hope in…
Glory May Cost You Everything: An Invitation to Romans 8
Last year, eighteen more people died climbing Mount Everest, the most lives the great mountain has taken in a single year. The eighteen brought the tragic total to more than 340 in the last century — and the death toll is manifestly rising. Climbers die from falls, from avalanches, from frostbite and other health crises,…