Cream of blog 10.05.11
A few blog posts worthy of your time Kevin DeYoung on that feeling of perpetual guilt you may have. Kevin DeYoung on questions we should ask when people are disappointed with the church. (part one,...
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FPC Kosciusko recently hosted Covenant Values Weekend, featuring Dr. John Kwasny, director of Christian education and children’s ministry at Pear Orchard Presbyterian Church in Ridgeland, Mississippi....
View ArticleYour garden hose is too small
Great post from Pastor Dave Dorr of Cincinnati, Ohio on how you can’t handle a house fire by yourself…and how you can’t handle the guilt and power of sin by yourself either: Recently a firefighter in...
View ArticleWhat you wear matters
From The Resurgence, part of a short post entitled, “What You Wear Matters.” 5 Scriptural Principles For What You Wear Understand that clothes communicate something about those who select and wear...
View ArticleHappy 400th, King James Version!
On this day in 1604, King James appointed 54 scholars to produce a new English translation of the Bible. The result 7 years later: the KJV. The more accurate and official name is the “Authorized...
View ArticleOne space or two?
It’s time to go public with this, thanks to a recent piece on Slate.com by Farhad Manjoo on why you should never, I repeat, never put two spaces between a period and the beginning of the next sentence....
View ArticleThomas Brooks on prayer
From Thomas Brooks (Works 2:256): God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor yet at the geometry of your prayers, to see how long they are; nor yet at the arithmetic...
View ArticleThe age-old curse is breaking
An Easter poem by C. S. Lewis, appearing in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950-1963(HarperSan Francisco, 2007), p. 955. The poem is from a June 1958...
View ArticleCream of blog 12.5.11
How to Talk with People about the Gospel: Harvey Turner suggests we stop viewing people as “projects.” 5 Benefits Drawn Out from Sorrow: Zach Eswine draws out some sweet comforts from the sympathy of...
View ArticleCream of blog 1.25.12
Here are some links worth reading and thoughts worth thinking… Sobering words from John Piper: 15 things to consider about abortion. From Reformed Theological Seminary: Tinker, tailor, soldier…pastor:...
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