Friday, August 30, 2013
Passing on an NFL Dream to Go to Seminary
Desiring God has a new video profile on former Michigan State star Chris Norman:
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Stevie Ray Vaughan Pride And Joy Live In New Jersey
It's the 23rd anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's passing
Stevie Ray Vaughan Cold Shot Live From Austin Texas 1080P
It's the 23rd anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's passing
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tin Pan Alley 12/13/1983
It's the 23rd anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's passing
Saturday, August 24, 2013
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Friday, August 23, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Living For The Glorious Possibility
“Possibly
one of the most devastating things that can happen to us as Christians
is that we cease to expect anything to happen. I am not sure but that
this is not one of our greatest troubles today. We come to our services
and they are orderly, they are nice ‒ we come, we go ‒ and sometimes
they are timed almost to the minute, and there it is. But that is not
Christianity, my friend. Where is the
Lord of glory? Where is the one sitting by the well? Are we expecting
him? Do we anticipate this? Are we open to it? Are we aware that we
are ever facing this glorious possibility of having the greatest
surprise of our life?
Or let me put it like this. You may feel and say ‒ as many do ‒ ‘I was converted and became a Christian. I've grown ‒ yes, I’ve grown in knowledge, I've been reading books, I've been listening to sermons, but I’ve arrived now at a sort of peak and all I do is maintain that. For the rest of my life I will just go on like this.’
Now, my friend, you must get rid of that attitude; you must get rid of it once and for ever. That is ‘religion’, it is not Christianity. This is Christianity: the Lord appears! Suddenly, in the midst of the drudgery and the routine and the sameness and the dullness and the drabness, unexpectedly, surprisingly, he meets with you and he says something to you that changes the whole of your life and your outlook and lifts you to a level that you had never conceived could be possible for you. Oh, if we get nothing else from this story, I hope we will get this. Do not let the devil persuade you that you have got all you are going to get, still less that you received all you were ever going to receive when you were converted. That has been a popular teaching, even among evangelicals. You get everything at your conversion, it is said, including baptism with the Spirit, and nothing further, ever. Oh, do not believe it; it is not true. It is not true to the teaching of the Scriptures, it is not true in the experience of the saints running down the centuries. There is always this glorious possibility of meeting with him in a new and a dynamic way.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, on John chapter 4
Or let me put it like this. You may feel and say ‒ as many do ‒ ‘I was converted and became a Christian. I've grown ‒ yes, I’ve grown in knowledge, I've been reading books, I've been listening to sermons, but I’ve arrived now at a sort of peak and all I do is maintain that. For the rest of my life I will just go on like this.’
Now, my friend, you must get rid of that attitude; you must get rid of it once and for ever. That is ‘religion’, it is not Christianity. This is Christianity: the Lord appears! Suddenly, in the midst of the drudgery and the routine and the sameness and the dullness and the drabness, unexpectedly, surprisingly, he meets with you and he says something to you that changes the whole of your life and your outlook and lifts you to a level that you had never conceived could be possible for you. Oh, if we get nothing else from this story, I hope we will get this. Do not let the devil persuade you that you have got all you are going to get, still less that you received all you were ever going to receive when you were converted. That has been a popular teaching, even among evangelicals. You get everything at your conversion, it is said, including baptism with the Spirit, and nothing further, ever. Oh, do not believe it; it is not true. It is not true to the teaching of the Scriptures, it is not true in the experience of the saints running down the centuries. There is always this glorious possibility of meeting with him in a new and a dynamic way.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, on John chapter 4
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
God's Sovereignty Encompasses Everything
How can we really say God is sovereign over all when there is so much chaos and pain in the world?
Nothing shall hinder his great design. God's great ends will be obtained: all his ends will be obtained, and by his own means.--Jonathan Edwards, 1744 sermon entitled "Approaching the End of God's Grand Design," in Works, 25:121
After all this seeming confusion and vast succession of strange and wonderful revolutions, everything shall come out right at last. There is no confusion in God's scheme; he understands his own works and every wheel moves right in its place.
Not one mote of dust errs from the path that God has appointed it; he will bring order at last out of confusion. God don't lose himself in the intricate endless moves of events that come to pass. Though men can't see the whole scheme, God sees. The course and series of events in divine providence is like the course of a great and long river with many branches and innumerable windings and turnings which often seems to go backwards.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
Understanding God's Love
C. S.
Lewis in the “The Problem With Pain” says, “God has no needs. Human
love as Plato teaches us is the child of Poverty— of a want or lack; it
is caused by a real or supposed good in its beloved which the lover
needs and desires. But God’s love, far from being caused by goodness in
the object, caused all the goodness which the object has, loving it
first into existence and then into real, though
derivative, love-ability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot
need or get it. In that sense all His love is, as it were, bottomlessly
selfless by very definition; it has everything to give and nothing to
receive. Hence if God sometimes speaks as though the impassible could
suffer passion and eternal fullness could be in want, and in want of
those beings on whom it bestows all from their bare existence upwards,
this can mean only, if it means anything intelligible by us, that the
God of mere miracle has made Himself able so to hunger and created in
himself that which we can satisfy. If he requires us, the requirement is
of his own choosing. If the immutable heart can be grieved by the
puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has
so subjected it, freely and in a humility that passes understanding”
(pg. 50).
This is profound, let it challenge your mind as to your understanding of God's love.
This is profound, let it challenge your mind as to your understanding of God's love.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
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