This year is the first for some time during which Easter will be marked at our home without the purchase of chocolate eggs. We give our older at home children block chocolate, but don’t buy the ‘egg and bunny’ type products once they reach a certain age. This post by Sydney’s Phillip Jensen affirms chocolate …
Timmy Brister posted this prayer from the book The Valley Of Vision on his blog. I adapted portions of it this morning in our Good Friday service at mgpc. Love Lustres At Calvary My Father, Enlarge my heart, warm my affections, open my lips, supply words that proclaim ‘Love Lustres at Calvary.’ There grace removes …
An interesting contrast that I don’t recall reading about before from Russell Moore: When the disciples screamed in the face of a storm, Jesus slept (Mk. 4:37-38). When Jesus screamed in the face of a cross, the disciples slept (Mk. 14:37,41). Why could Jesus sleep so peacefully through a life-threatening sea-storm, and yet is awake …
Pertinent and helpful questions from Doug Wolter: As people enter our doors this Easter Sunday, will they see us as real people worshiping a real Savior? Will they enter a community of grace? Tim Chester, in his excellent book, You Can Change, lists some great questions to discern if your church is a community of grace, and …
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