Things I Love
Aside from my Saviour, my greatest love is for my family. So, of course, this post brings me great delight.My wife, Stacey, has been blogging for a few months now--and I love it! This post is just...
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Too Cute
I just had to post these. They're some pictures taken from the nursery of our church on a Wednesday night. The older kids in nursery are longingly watching the GraceKids classes outside playing games....
View ArticlePsalm 16
In a previous post I suggested a four-level approach to interpreting some of the Psalms along the lines of redemptive-history. Here I hope to model that in an abbreviated form, using Psalm 16. 1. Read...
View ArticleWhat in the World is a Knol?
I haven't quite figured out how these things work yet, but I've attempted to create some knols. You can check out my bio here. It has a links to the articles I've posted so far.I'm not really sure if...
View ArticleThinking About How You Read
A few years back I was struck by the realization that the way I read the Bible was being handicapped by the way the pages were laid out. Here are just a few examples.The pages are laid out in columns....
View ArticleChristian Wedding Vows
It's wedding season... which is great! I love thinking about weddings. Their whole point, after all, is to point to my Saviour and his love for his bride--and I like to think about that!Since staying...
View ArticleTwo Random Thoughts
Line of the Day:I'm not insecure... I just want everyone else to think as highly of me as I do.Thought for the Day:Remember when you were little and a friend would have a birthday party? You'd watch...
View ArticleListing of Tom Schreiner's Sermons Online
While several have made admirable attempts to catalogue all the free online D.A. Carson sermons they could find, this is the first such list I've come across for Dr Thomas R Schreiner.You can view the...
View ArticleFrom Legalism to Licentiousness (and back again...?)
Over the last few Sunday evenings at Grace Fellowship Church, my friend Paul McDonald has been opening up Galatians 5.13 for us. The verse reads like this: For you were called to freedom, brothers....
View ArticleBe Cool: Be Natural
The 'all-natural' fad is in full-swing. Stephen Altrogge comments:Here’s your “How To Be On the Cutting Edge of Coolness” tip for the day: get into natural stuff. It seems that if you want to earn any...
View ArticleThoughts on Baptism
In the life of our church, there is no greater highlight (in my mind) than when we celebrate baptisms. The baptism of a believer is the rite of inauguration into the church of Jesus Christ. When we...
View ArticleI guess I'm a loud sneezer...?!
Picturing this conversation had me laughing pretty good.Check it out at Janis's blog: Progression of a Conversation between a 3.5 year old and a 2 year old.
View ArticleOverwhelmed
There are benefits and drawbacks to preaching large portions of text. The benefits are too numerous to get into, but one of the drawbacks is that you don't get to stop and to meditate for as long as...
View ArticleJoshua & Amy Do a Duet
In honour of our friends Nick & Alicia, at their wedding. Enjoy!
View ArticleFor Christian Husbands
As I lamented yesterday, preaching through James 4.1-12 quickly made me a little sad because I wasn't able to pursue some rabbit trails that I would've loved to go down. One of those was how this...
View ArticleI Don't Get It
The further along in the book of James we go, the more points there are when I think, '...Huh?'It's a bizarre experience to look ahead in the book, know that there are only a few weeks left to finish...
View ArticleMale Modesty?
A good friend of mine, whose opinion I respect greatly, has some different views than me on the issue of a woman's modesty in dress. One of the objections he will bring up in conversations on this...
View Article7 Reasons to Say 'God Willing...'
These are some notes taken from the sermon I preached this past Sunday at GFC. I was preaching from James 4:13-17 and the necessity of realizing our absolute dependence on God before we do any...
View ArticleDinner Conversation
Okay, maybe this is only funny if you know us, but here's an excerpt from tonight's dinner conversation.Julian: 'Having a wife is like living with a post-modern literary critic: the only meaning that...
View ArticleBlacks, Whites, and Greys
It's a funny thing to me how lessons seem to weave themselves into our lives at seemingly 'random' points in time (which, of course, shows me that they're not random at all). Over the past eight weeks...
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Bob Kauflin on David Powlison on the Imprecatory Psalms
Bob Kauflin (lead worshiper at Covenant Life Church) has posted notes on what looks like it was an awesome session from the WorshipGod '08 Conference. He's also got a link to download the mp3 of the...
View ArticleHow to Love More
Even though we've moved on to chapter 5 in our study on James at GFC, I'm still marvelling at many of the things my Lord has been teaching me from his word.Preaching big passages like I've had to do is...
View ArticleThe Purpose of Pain
The other day Stacey returned home with a special purchase for Susannah. It was a bottle of bright-coloured, foaming hand soap. Susannah has reached an age where we want her to be able to do more...
View ArticleIt's All New!
Is new better? I guess it can be sometimes. Hopefully you like my new page better. We're still working out a few of the bugs, but so far, so good (at least in my humble opinion). Feel free to offer any...
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