Stephen Freeman writes about a perspective on life that resonates with the current study of Ecclesiastes that we’re doing at MGPC. It may be existential despair, but it points to the one in whom there is no despair: Our life is fragile and exists only as a precious gift. We have no existence in-and-of-ourselves and …
In addition to reading the section of the Bible on which that week’s sermon is based, at MGPC we also sequentially read about one chapter a week from another book of the Bible. We do this as an application of the exhortation for the Scriptures to be read publicly, and as a recognition that the …
Randy Alcorn is supporting his wife, Nanci, through her season of cancer. God is supporting them both. He writes about the experience of God using the very situations that nobody wants as the circumstances in which faith and Christlikeness grows: If asked, “Do you want to be closer to Jesus, and more like him?” we …
Paul Tripp reflects on his own season of chronic illness, a situation that has left him with ongoing physical challenges. The greatest challenge though, is not physical, it is spiritual. You never come to your suffering empty-handed. You always drag a bag full of experiences, expectations, assumptions, perspectives, desires, intentions, and decisions into your suffering. …
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