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Free Stuff Fridays

This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by Granted Ministries. There will be four winners this week, and each of them will receive the following prize package which carries a prayer kind of theme. In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill by Mack Tomlinson Valuable Selections from the Writings of George Muller 2 copies of The Hidden Life of Prayer and The Prayer-Life of Our Lord by D.M. M’Intyre (the book we are going through in Reading Classics Together) Audio Sermon: “Seeking …

A Wedding Hymn

I was at a wedding recently and was introduced to this hymn (which also works well as a poem) written by John Berridge. Berridge was a preacher, a revivalist and a hymnwriter who wrote several hundred songs. Indelible Grace has a helpful biography of the man. I quite enjoyed his hymn “Since Jesus Freely Did Appear” and thought I’d share it with you. Since Jesus freely did appear To grace a marriage feast, O Lord, we ask thy presence here …

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Memorizing Scripture Together – Week 2 Update

It is my intention to primarily use email to update the participants in the Memorizing Scripture Together effort (click here to learn about the program). However, this morning I logged in to the software I use to send those emails only to find that it is down for maintenance until 9 AM tomorrow morning. And so I’m going to post this on the blog today just to keep people in the loop. The email blast will go out as soon …

Twin Lakes (IV)

The day began with David Robertson speaking to us about Robert Murray McCheyne. Robertson, who currently pastors St. Peter’s Free Church, the very church of McCheyne, wrote a biography (Awakening: The Life & Ministry of Robert Murray McCheyne) of McCheyne in 1994 and shared with us some of the lessons we can learn from the all-too-short life of this great Scottish preacher. We then turned to the second of this conference’s worship services. After Kevin Smith assisted in reading the …

Desiring God – Site & Conference News

Desiring God has launched their new web site. While the site design has not changed drastically, it is a little bit cleaner and a tad more contemporary. The changes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and this is often a good thing. But behind the design lurk some great new features. Rather than describe them myself, I will provide the brief summary supplied by the webmaster. We are pleased to announce the new desiringGod.org, which we have redesigned from the ground …

Day Thirty Five – God’s Power In Your Weakness

God loves to use weak people. In reality if He wishes to use people to do His work on earth He does not have much choice, for we all have imperfections: physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. The important thing is not whether or not we have weaknesses, but what we do with them. If we deny, excuse or hide them, we prevent God from doing what He desires in and through us. As he wants to use our strengths for …

The Purpose Driven Life Day Four – Made To Last Forever

Day four of The Purpose Driven Life picks up where day three left off. After ending the previous day with an explanation of how this life is but a dress rehearsal for eternity, Warren keeps his focus on eternity. He says that earth is just “the preschool, the tryout for your life in eternity.” Humans were created to live forever, and regardless of who I am or what I believe, I will live forever. My time on earth is only …