Weekly Picks April 18, 2012 Digging for change in the internet couch... The Songs of Ascent [http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2012/04/things-to-remember-on-long-walk-ahead.html] --Phil Johnson is beginning a new teaching series on the Psalms of Ascent (120-134)
Weekly Picks April 14, 2012 Turning the internet upside down and giving it a good shake... Lakes and Oceans [http://xkcd.com/1040/]--Web-comic-supreme xkcd outdoes itself (himself?) with this infographic about the Lakes and Oceans. Take some
Weekly Picks April 06, 2012 Finding the sweet-cheese filling in the cannoli that is the internet... "More Love to Thee, O Christ [http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2012/04/04/more-love-to-thee-o-christ/] " -- Says Kevin DeYoung, "
Hope A Few Thoughts on Hope April 03, 2012 Hope isn't magical--at least not like we often think it is. Hope isn't simply a peace about the future that wraps our heart in a down comforter without warning
Weekly (or so) Picks March 23, 2012 ...where the internet puts its best face forward. Our friend Adam mines John Owen [http://thesolasystem.blogspot.com/2012/03/owen-on-hittite-hermeneutic.html] for a healthy corrective to reading the covenants in Scripture in
Faith planted in history, not ideas March 17, 2012 > The means of our new birth is not first the **message **of the resurrection; it is the **fact **of the resurrection. When Christ rose he secured our salvation. He entered that new
On Losing a Baby March 06, 2012 Last week we found out that our unborn baby had died; he-or-she was our fifth child but our first miscarriage. (To those who have prayed and cared for Lisa and our family, please
Weekly Picks February 25, 2012 Give it a couple days and the cream rises to the top. This time a team effort, with help from Barry York. Danger of Being Over Wise [http://www.naphtali.com/articles/william-sprague/
How Jesus is Winning the World February 23, 2012 It was a tiny, common thing yet it made my heart soar. The other morning I had time to read and write at a local coffee shop before heading to the office. A
How to Become a Heretic February 21, 2012 It's hard to become a really good heretic. It can't be done on the spur of the moment--no, it takes planning, goals, action steps, focus groups and the like.
Weekly Picks February 18, 2012 Proving once again that everything, including the internet, belongs to Jesus. The Freedom of the Regulative Principle [http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2012/02/14/the-freedom-of-the-regulative-principle/] --The regulative principle (that we do in
Vines and oaks February 11, 2012 In preparation for Sunday, I'm studying Ezekiel 15-16, two of the harshest, stomach-punch chapters in the Bible. These are chapters intended to make us _feel _the guilt of sin; indeed, it&
Get by with a little help from my friends January 31, 2012 Because we have some new folks in our church family these days and because many of us have been studying Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands together and because last week was
What I love about the west January 18, 2012 Contrary to most advertising by churches, being in a (good) denomination is a wonderful, Biblical blessing. Most of the authors of this blog are associated with the RPCNA [www.rpcna.org], which has
Weekly(ish) Picks December 15, 2011 Proving once again that the internet does not belong to Satan. These series of posts by Dr. David Murray, reviewing _Jesus Plus Nothing= Everything _by Tullian Tchividjian, aren't just a good
Church Maybe Timeliness is Next to Godliness December 08, 2011 Tardiness to worship is like the common cold. Every church deals with it. It's not the most serious malady facing us, yet it distracts us and drains us. And we have
A Sabbath Thought December 01, 2011 [http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/untitled.jpg] At Immanuel, we're diving into a Sunday night teaching series on the fourth commandment. My plan is to work from the
Weekly picks November 23, 2011 "Gratitude"- [http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/2011/11/23/gratitude/]-a wonderful Thanksgiving meditation. "No, gratitude is free. It’s free, it’s unnecessary, like the creation of the world
Ministry and identity November 16, 2011 Paul Tripp [http://www.amazon.com/Instruments-Redeemers-Hands-Resources-Changing/dp/0875526071/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321473802&sr=8-1] on Jesus' brotherhood ministry to us (Heb. 2:10-12) and applying
Hunting Season November 14, 2011 At Immanuel [http://www.immanuelrpc.com/], we are working through the book of Ezekiel on Sunday mornings. Yesterday I preached on Ezekiel 6, where God explains the coming destruction of Jerusalem by decrying
links Weekly Picks November 12, 2011 Two Trees [http://www.rabbitroom.com/2011/11/two-trees/] - this essay by Alyssa Ramsey at the Rabbit Room is simply beautiful. The Importance of "not" [http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2011/
missions Not a Fair Fight November 04, 2011 Every Sunday is a great gift from God. But last Sunday...last Sunday our local congregation [http://www.immanuelrpc.com]received more of God's goodness than we have room for: we
How big is your church? October 23, 2011 Tomorrow morning my family and I will gather together with about 75 other people to worship God. To some, a congregation of 75 is unthinkably small. To others, perhaps it is enviably large.
The seeds of sin October 17, 2011 As I sit in my basement "office" (a loose term, here meaning a table shoved into a corner beside all the boxes and cement walls), studying the second commandment, I find
Jesus In the end, it's all Jesus September 28, 2011 I hate trying to play games when I don't know the rules. I have painful memories of trying to play euchre while still not being totally sure what the point was
