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Andy Naselli » Blog Archive » “What scares me most is that I am so very much like you.”. Getting back into the swing of things after vacation but here’s a quote worth remembering that Andy Naselli highlights: Mark Driscoll’s (and Gerry Breshears’s) Death by Love: Letters from the Cross (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008; cf. the official website) includes a chapter entitled “‘Lust Is My God’: Jesus Is Thomas’s Redemption.” Here’s how Driscoll movingly concludes a brutally straightforward letter to a man named Thomas, who is enslaved to lust (pp. 67–68): What scares me...
Read More“That’s not fair!”
I’ve said this more than a few times in my life. A lot of situations aren’t fair, especially when you have brothers and sisters. Now I’m hearing it from my son Tad fairly often. As second born (behind Kaisa) and old enough to have a defined sense of what’s appropriate, he’s started to identify things he thinks aren’t fair. Like when the girls get to watch a movie that he doesn’t like (and therefore won’t watch) and then still watch a movie with him. (The girls aren’t nearly as fastidious about “boy”...
Read MoreOn the Vocation of a Gospel Minister by Newton
Before John Newton (1725-1807) was called to the Anglican ministry he described what he understood his calling to be to a friend, Harry Crooke of Hunslett, Leeds, in these words: “The message I would bear is Jesus Christ and him crucified and from the consideration of the great things he has done, to recommend and enforce Gospel holiness and Gospel love, and to take as little notice of our fierce contests, controversies and divisions as possible. My desire is to lift up the banner of the Lord, and to draw the sword of the Spirit not against names, parties and opinions, but against the...
Read MoreGratitude, the Debtor’s Ethic, and John Piper’s Future Grace (part 1)
John Piper in 1995 wrote Future Grace. I’m finally getting around to reading it. His main premise is that faith in future grace is what drives our righteous behavior before God now. He says, “I pray that you will hear and follow the call to find your joy in all that God promises to be for you in Jesus. And I pray the the expulsive power of this new affection will go on freeing you for the fleeting pleasures of sin and empower you for a life o sacrifical love. If in this way, we prove that God is prized above all things, then living by faith in future grace will be to the...
Read MoreTwelve “Thou Shalt Nots” for Parents
1. Belittle your child 2. Use threats 3. Bribe your child 4. Extract promises of better conduct from your child 5. Use overprotective supervision 6. talk excessively to your child (when rebuking) 7. Insist on blind obedience 8. Pamper and overindulge your child 9. Use inconsistent rules and limits. 10. Use rules which are inappropriate to the child’s age. 11. Use moralizing and quiet-inducing methods. 12. Give any command you do not intend to enforce. Taken from Pastor Holub, Fellowship Baptist Church
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