Mo married me 10 years ago today, June 19, 1998. Wow.
Back then I was looking for someone who wouldn’t be satisfied with the status quo. I prayed for a person that would encourage and push for our marriage to be full and intimate and fun and show off the relationship between Christ and His Bride, […]
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We are more than halfway through the Reformation Conference at Faith Bible Church that I’ve titled, God Saves Sinners — The Sweetness of Sovereign Grace. Though I’ve previously posted most of the following list, I thought now would be a good time again to highlight some additional resources for those interested in studying Calvinism on their own. […]
In a few minutes Maggie and I are leaving for a two week trip to Ohio. Mo and Calvin are staying home this year, but I’m off to preach five messages at a church conference on the Five Points of Calvinism and then nine messages from Ecclesiastes for the same church’s youth camp.
Somehow it happened that […]
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There’s a reason we don’t put out fires: we love the action.
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Proverbs 26:22
We don’t extinguish drama because we enjoy it. We’re not built to let fires die out. We are fire […]
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Not only do whisperers fuel drama as we saw in verse 20, quarrelers also play a large roll in drama.
As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
Proverbs 26:21
The first half of the proverb in verse 21 provides the comparison, As charcoal to hot […]
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Starting a fire requires fuel and something to ignite the fuel.1 In particular, fires need heat, fuel and oxygen. Remove any of those three ingredients and no fire will burn. When it comes to the fire of drama, whisperers are the fuel.
For lack of wood the fire goes out,
and where there […]
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Fire scares me; it has for as long as I can remember. For most of my life I refused to light a match unless it was one of those 10” fireplace matches. Only during the last five years or so have I learned how to strike a match from a matchbook by folding over the […]
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Reformation Resources
A seminar on how to study the Bible, October 11. Click here for more info or to register online.