Parenting Series Available Online

Last Sunday I concluded an eight-week series on parenting entitled God’s Word for Your Family. The messages are all available online:

Your Family Is Immeasurably Important
Your Family Is Comprised of Sinners
Your Family Needs the Gospel
Your Family Needs God’s Grace
Your Family Needs Instruction
Your Family Needs Discipline
Your Family Needs Your Example
Your Family Needs the Local Church

I don’t pretend [...]

My Jesus Fair, with Chords for Guitar

Links for My Jesus, Fair:
Full Sheet Music / Half Sheet Music / Doctrinal Notes / MP3 Sample

Dever Preaches on the Local Church

I’ve heard many messages on the local church and many messages by Mark Dever, but I think this is my favorite of each. Dever preached on the importance of the local church at the 2002 New Attitude conference, attended by singles from around the country. Speaking to a generation known for its fierce independence, Dever [...]

Wannabe Sacred Sandwich 03

 
I’m off today, and we didn’t do a WSS last week, so I think we’re due. An explanation & the 2 rules can be found here.

(HT: The real Sacred Sandwich & its Dubious Photojournalism, which crack me right up. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.)

Heaven Is Rejoicing!

Speaking of God being good, I just got a note from my brother Dan, who is home on furlough from his ministry in Brazil. He is delighted to report that their neighbor Cristina, for whom they have been praying for 8 years, recently trusted Christ! The fact that Dan wasn’t even there is just another [...]

God Is Good. . . Whatever That Means

I fear that we often think of God’s goodness in very shallow terms. We exclaim that “God is so good!” in response to good news—perhaps regarding finances, health or other physical needs. While it is true that such blessings are evidences of God’s goodness, God’s goodness must mean more than a sanctified way of saying [...]

New Hymn: My Jesus Fair

I’ve teamed again with my good friend Greg Habegger (with whom I wrote Holy, Mighty, Worthy) to produce a new hymn. My Jesus Fair focuses on Christ and the suffering He endured at the hands of men and God to obtain our salvation. It is our hope that My Jesus Fair will point the Lord’s [...]

Correspondence with Carl Trueman Posted at Reformation 21

Last night I sent an email to Carl Trueman notifying him of my blog post addressing his comments on Led Zeppelin at the Reformation 21 blog. This morning I received a very congenial (though unconvincing, IMO) response from Dr. Trueman. I considered posting the exchange, but Reformation 21 has already done so in their “We [...]

Led Zeppelin? On Reformation 21?

File this under Things that make you go “Whaaaa…????”
Reformation 21, “The Online Magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals,” has a blog post by Carl Trueman in which he shares his enthusiasm over the upcoming reunion of Led Zeppelin and chats about what made them so great.
No kidding.
There’s something about seeing that on a blog [...]

What Does “Faithful Children” Mean in Titus 1:6?

This discussion on parenting resulted in an interesting interpretive question: the children of elders are required to be “faithful,” lest their fathers be unqualified. Does that mean that they must be born again, or that they must be well-behaved? It’s an important question, and not an easy one to settle.
Fortunately, Nathan Busenitz of Faith [...]