Lots of thoughts about the future with advice about purposeful growing in godliness. Firstly, Ray Ortlund: The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. Proverbs 4:18 In this new year of grace, A.D. 2010, everything — everything — will work together for our good. …
I enjoyed a post on Stuff Christians Like entitled “Secretly hoping your city’s NFL team stinks so people will come to church.” This pertains to the reply which a church pastor gave when someone offered him sympathy over the lowly standing of his town’s football team: “Without missing a beat, upon being reminded of how …
There are some who read the words ‘Humble Calvinism’ and think it an oxymoron, a phrase that contradicts itself, like ‘dry rain’ or ‘hot ice’. Rather, it should be a tautology, a phrase that repeats itself. On Pyromaniacs, among a group of year-end book reviews, Phil Johnson commends a new publication of ‘The Marrow Of …
Mary MacKillop has been accredited with the necessary requirements to be recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic church. She spent what seems to have been a brief, but formative, period of her life in Penola which is fifty kilometers north of Mount Gambier. It may not be known to folk outside Australia that …
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