The Gospel Pillar of God’s Faithfulness

Today’s Scripture reading from the ESV Bible Reading Schedule took me to Psalm 105. Through this Psalm the Lord moved me to ponder His faithfulness.
7 He is the Lord our God;
his judgments are in all the earth.
8 He remembers his covenant forever,
the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
9 the covenant that he [...]

Our Worth in Christ Alone

In a Christian culture saturated with self-esteem counsel and practical theology that subtly makes much of you and little of God, it is refreshing to read the following words from Jon Bloom, Executive Director of Desiring God Ministries, in his April letter to DG supporters:
To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with [...]

Cross Meditation

Edward Donnelly, of Reformed Theological College in Belfast, Ireland writes the following in his foreward to the book, The Cross He Bore-Meditations on the Suffering of the Redeemer:
We are too apt to hurry past the cross, to undervalue, in spite of ourselves, the supreme mystery of the ages by a shallow assumption that we know [...]

Knowing is for Living

It is a treat when the first line of a book grabs you. This happened to me as I broke open the pages of The Christian Life by Sinclair Ferguson. In a modern church culture where the gospel is woefully tarnished for lack of use and believer’s lives are suffering as a [...]

Gospel Reasoning in Dark Hours

Here is this week’s worship team update, I hope it is an encouragement:
Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
There is a wonderful progression of gospel reasoning in this week’s song selection. We begin with a sobering acknowledgment of life’s difficulties in [...]

The Joyful Christian

Just a quick note to check out today’s post on Already Not Yet entitled The Joyful Christian. There is a wonderful quote by Thomas Brooks from A Cabinet of Choice Jewels (1669). Brooks eloquently reminds us to keep our gaze fixed on Christ. One of the previous posts contains a solid article [...]

Why Gospel Novice?

Why choose such a title for my blog? Hmm… Self deprecation? False humility? Insecurity due to the lack of a seminary degree? Well, if you’re curious, I actually came across this title, or better yet this concept, when listening to Tim Keller speak at the 2006 Desiring God conference. His [...]

The Challenges of Gospel Ministry

I came across the following on Gospel Muse (please see my blog roll). These very insightful quotes are from Mike Bullmore:
“One of the greatest challenges, yet one of the most important tasks, of pastoral ministry is to help people actually see the connections between the gospel and the thinking and behavior that make up [...]

Powlison’s Prayer

I was recently speaking to our youth about the necessity of slowing down and approaching their personal time with the Lord in His Word prayerfully and patiently. That discussion rose out of a statement in the April 2 installment of Faith’s Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon where he wrote: “Not by hasty reading but by [...]

Weekly Worship Update

Weekly, I send our church worship team the necessary info for the week’s set of songs. Along with that I like to give a brief bit of gospel encouragement. I’ve decided to start to post these mini exortations along with our Song Sheet for your encouragement as well. I hope these words [...]