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If My People

06 Wednesday Jan 2010

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Last summer, my church participated in Call2Fall, a well-intentioned call to pray for our nation’s leaders.  There were two problems I had with the whole thing as a worship leader at the church.  First, we should be praying for our leaders every time we gather.  Second, the primary impetus for praying was the infamous 2 Chronicles passage, ripped from context.  I drew up the following document and submitted it to my pastor for his review, detailing my concerns for using the 2 Chronicles passage out of context.  I was subsequently allowed to rewrite the text for the flyer, which was to Pastor Dave’s (and the elder board’s) credit.

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Repentance 1

05 Tuesday Jan 2010

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An excellent friend has sent me an excellent little book on The Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson.  In a similar vein to my mini-review of key points of John Owen’s On Temptation and Sin in Believers, &c, I will be offering reviews on this blog of this work which will no doubt have effect on me that I will only be able to dream of at present.

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Yahweh Yireh: My Provider

03 Sunday Jan 2010

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experience, homosexuality, loneliness, relationships, repentance, Scripture, theology

I spent the evening with a dear friend and his boyfriend this evening.  I haven’t seen this friend in a very long time and it was wonderful to meet his boyfriend and get caught up on friendship stuff.  I have found that it is an excellent idea to let folks whom I love know that I love them unconditionally, whether or not I agree with their decisions, like their sins (because I am aware that I sin…a LOT), or think they could be more moral.  What I’m supposed to do is to call them (as myself) to repentance and the forgiveness of sins in Christ.

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Man-centered Self-help, 1

26 Saturday Dec 2009

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culture, experience, false teaching, homosexuality, relationships, repentance, Scripture, self-help, theology

One of the guys in my same-sex attraction group sent the following email out to the guys right before Christmas.  I finally had a chance to read it and respond, so I thought I’d share that with you, the folks who read my blog.

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Are the Shipwrecked Saved By Sinking?

13 Sunday Dec 2009

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The Biblical model is to ask forgiveness and obtain it by asking.

Right?

Wrong.

But we’re supposed to repent, right?  We’re supposed to ask forgiveness! The Bible tells us so!

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The Glorious Worship of the King 2

02 Monday Nov 2009

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Worship is serious.

Not only does what I sing reflect my worship, how I live does too.  How does my worship glorify the King to Whom All Glory Is Due?

There are two things I could do at this point in the post.

  1. Navel-gaze.  I could tell you either about how all I do to safeguard the music at my church (namely, the lyrics) so that Christ might be honored in a biblical way, OR I could tell you about how nothing I do could ever be good enough to match the purity of the God to whom I sing.
  2. Extol Christ.

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The Glorious Worship of the King 1

30 Friday Oct 2009

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Two of my favorite passages of Scripture occur in Revelation.  The first of my favorites is Revelation 5.  In it, we see a fascinating picture of the redeemed gathered around the throne, worshipping the Lamb who was slain:

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Pray and Don’t Lose Heart 1

29 Thursday Oct 2009

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Luke 18

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'” 6And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

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The Gospel in the 103rd Psalm

28 Wednesday Oct 2009

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He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repays us according to our iniquities.  For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.  As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

–Psalm 103:10-13, ESV

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