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The Worst Things Work for the Godly pt. 2

We are looking at Romans 8: 28. That “God works all things together for good, for those who love Him, to those called according to His purpose.” In our last entry we shared how God even works evil or bad for good. We looked at the first of what Thomas Watson called the four evils [...]

How The Worst Things Work for Good

Over the next few days we are going to walk through my gleanings from Thomas Watson (read previous posting on this blog for bio on Watson). I want to point out four “evils” upon which God works for good to those who love Him. So, here is the first of the four: Affliction. God works [...]

Enjoy Suffering

Over the next several weeks let’s walk through Romans 8: 28. You know it, right? Follow me and comment if you so desire as we learn from one of my favorite preachers of all time. His name is Thomas Watson. I don’t just like him because his first name is a remarkable name usually given [...]

Unnatural

Christians should not be able to stop speaking about Jesus. So, if you are able to live in a perpetual state of not talking about His glory and His gospel then, you are either not seeing Him and hearing him regularly or you are doing something profound. You are doing something you should not be [...]

Gospel Power For Today

Warm your hands over these thoughts from Brother Lawrence: “Only a fool wants fading power. Only a fool wants power that gives out just when you need it most. I

Redeemed How I Love To Proclaim It!

Ephesians 1:7-”In Him we have REDEMPTION, through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace…” Now Redemption in The Break Down of Our Text in Ephesians 1:7

Monergism is one of the good "isms"…He's our friend

Have you ever began to hate all of the “isms” out there that begin to cloud and not clarify. Many of them seem to keep people away and not lure them in. We have Arminianism, Calvinism, modernism, and postmodernism and so on. Most people join a camp or a family of “isms”. Most of us [...]

In Continued

First let me share that for those of you on this study with us you might want to read some of these books. Chosen By God, by Dr. R.C. Sproul; Doctrine of Human Depravity, by A.W. Pink; Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views by Beilby & Eddy; Bondage of the Will and Freedom of the Will by [...]

"IN: Two Small Letters ONE Awesome God" (study of Ephesians Chapters 1-3)

Ephesians 1:4 Every day I am going to keep adding some stuff for you to come back and keep chewing on as we are studying the book of Ephesians together. Also, you can listen to the Sunday messages through Ephesians on our podcast. Ephesians 1:4-6-“even as he chose us in him before the foundation of [...]

ICU

I have been sitting in ICU for 8 days now tending to my father who is very sick. Obviously, there are many things that race through your mind at moments like this. There are 34 rooms around me of people in bad shape. Sickness is the dominate ora of the floor. Every single person in [...]

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