Contra Sunday – Faith on Wednesday
Posted in Adoption, Christian Living on Mar 11th, 2010
I have many friends who have adopted. Secretly, I envy them. What a great picture of the Gospel! Unfortunately, it’s not part of God’s plan for us at the moment. That aside, here’s a great post on adoption, contentment, and why happiness is a sham. HT: Challies
Posted in Christian Living, Devotionals, Grace, Spurgeon, Suffering on Mar 1st, 2010
How I love Spurgeon. Besides Scripture, he is a true balm for my soul. From Today’s ‘Morning’ devotion on the verse “Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.” (Song of Solomon 4:16), he writes … Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of [...]
Posted in Character, Christian Living on Mar 1st, 2010
Due to a set of circumstances that include my own addlepatedness, I don’t have my notes with me from Sunday, so I’ll need to double up with next Sunday’s post. By way of atonement, here’s a great post from a guy called Derek Brown. Convicting stuff in the Screwtapian manner. Check out the post on [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Wednesday on Feb 24th, 2010
I thought this would an easy post. It’s not. This week’s sermon resonated with me in ways that are really not open for public airing. Suffice to say, I’m currently in the wilderness. It opened up for me on Wednesday evening last week as I came home from work and Kid’s Club. Without getting into [...]
Posted in Character, Christian Living, Mark, Sermon, Suffering, Sunday on Feb 21st, 2010
Today was a ‘swap Sunday’ where the guys at our two sites swap pulpits. The same rules apply – My notes on his sermon; mistakes are attributable to me by default; no comments today. Intro: A vacation in 2002 took in South Dakota and was much enjoyed. All the usual suspects were there; Mt. Rushmore, [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Worship, Writing on Jan 3rd, 2010
Ok – I’m not Tim Challies. My break helped me see that. I’m not going to blog every day, have incredible insight after insight, write a book and retire to Canada. But I want to write. So here’s the deal. Each Sunday night, I’m going to post MY notes on the Sermon. Maybe they are [...]
A quest to learn my roots, to know my heritage, to understand what it is to be Presbyterian and Reformed.
BoB 2010
