“The reality of spiritual blindness has important implications for the Christian community. The Hebrews passage [3:13] clearly teaches that personal insight is the product of community. I need you in order to really see and know myself. Otherwise, I will listen to my own arguments, believe my own lies, and buy into my own delusions. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Christian Life’
March 7, 2009
Pleading for the Work of the Holy Spirit
The latest Sunday morning sermon series at church is entitled ACTS: The Unstoppable Advance of the Gospel to All Peoples. This study has already had a significant impact on my life simply by making me see the importance of the Holy Spirit’s work and my need for it.
One recent sermon in the series was The Vital [...]
February 11, 2009
How the Gospel has Nothing to do with Eyes that Fall off Dogs
Our church is cross-centered, wanting to bring the gospel to bear on everything–the gospel is not just for salvation, but for every thing that I face every day of my life.
When you’re not really accustomed to thinking this way, it’s difficult to see the connection between a life reality and a particular facet of the [...]
January 6, 2009
Desiring God Blog on Prayer
In conjunction with Prayer Week at Bethlehem Baptist Church, John Piper has been posting about prayer at the Desiring God Blog. Take a look:
A Good Start on Prayer in 2009
John Newton’s Struggle with Prayer
10 Reasons to Pray the Scriptures
A List of Everything they Prayed for in the New Testament
9 Ways to Pray for your Soul
What [...]
January 3, 2009
Prayer for 2009
I deliberately avoided making a list of new year’s resolutions for 2009. Sure, there are things that have crossed my mind that I ought to resolve to do, but they’re really nothing new. They’re probably the same things that have been on my list for years (and years, and years…). I’m tired of feeling like [...]
September 25, 2008
The Retreat Files – Book Review
For our retreat study, we chose Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother by Carolyn Mahaney. As a study of Titus 2:3-5, the book is mainly geared to wives and mothers, but many of the principles found therein could certainly be applied to single women.
We wanted our study to be cross-centered and, [...]
September 9, 2008
When the Gospel is Only a Door
I’ve learned a lot of things in the past few years, one of the most important things being that the gospel is not just for salvation. The grace that justifies is the same grace that sanctifies. Simple words; profound, life-changing truth.
The sermon Sunday at church was about “The Cross-Centered Church” (it was actually in two [...]
June 12, 2008
What Does Radical Look Like?
Having completed our study in the book of Romans, our Ladies’ Bible Study is continuing throughout the summer without a specific topic. We are listening to selected sermons that some of our husbands were privileged to hear when they attended the 2008 Shepherd’s Conference and/or Together for the Gospel. We started off Monday night with [...]
May 29, 2008
Dots, Squares, and the “Mom Thing”
We went to Red Robin for lunch after church on Sunday. Two things I can always count on when we go out to eat: 1) the kids will always argue about who gets to sit by me (I’m apparently the more popular parent in this family), and 2) I will, within seconds of being seated, [...]
May 26, 2008
What Christ is to me
Occasionally in our Sunday evening service, our pastor will randomly call on people to say what Christ is to them in three words or less. When put under pressure, I draw a blank. I cannot think on my feet. If you asked me what my phone number is, I couldn’t tell you. Not because I don’t [...]
