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I just posted something about how to treat our trials right.  This topic came to the forefront of my mind, because I’ve been listening to Matt Chandler’s podcasts a lot lately. Since Thanksgiving he has gone from completely healthy (to his knowledge), to having daily radiation and chemo treatments for a cancerous brain tumor.  [...]

I was recently directed to an article written by John Piper about dealing with cancer.  It was helpful and is great, so I decided to completely plagiarize it, but call it my own.  He was very specific to an immediate issue of cancer, but I’ve personally struggled with keeping this perspective in many trials in [...]

Romans 3:23-25a  For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.
We are justified through His grace! There is no more separation due to our sin. Jesus has [...]

I’ve posted on here a little bit about what it took to bring our second (and eventually 3rd) child into the world.  When Noah was born, he had  a baby shower and at the shower I wrote him a letter.  I was cleaning up my documents the other day and found it (4.5 years later). [...]

Last night I started to read “Keeping the Heart” by John Flavel. He was a Puritan who knew the depths of trials and knew what it meant to properly shepherd your heart. I mean not only did he write a book on it, that book was reprinted some 300+ years later. But I’m not writing [...]

The week of the 20th will be our “Christmas Service.” We will begin by singing of Christ’s birth and that in His coming to earth we have hope. Next we will sing of the glory God deserves in sending His son to die for us.  Next we will sing some great Christmas classics in Hark! The Herald [...]

This last week I was talking to my pastor about the doctrines of grace.  I made the statement that I have no idea how to explain them in under 7 minutes.  He agreed with me and told me it was nearly impossible.  He then spit out this sentence (Matt Kellso paraphrase, I wish I was [...]

By creating sin, God made a way for us to reduce our enjoyment of Him today, so we can enjoy Him infinitely in eternity.
Therefore saying God didn’t create sin is blasphemy, because you’re saying God would limit His Glory and defy His own personality.