Category Archives: Counsel
Words for the Grieving Ones
On Thursday morning many friends will gather alongside a family as they lay to rest a much loved wife and mother, who died in the early morning hours last Monday. Only a few months ago she was in the prime … Continue reading
Needed: A dose of moral courage
Moral courage is an endangered species in these days, where the T-Rex of political correctness freely roams and seemingly rules the land. I shared the following this morning at our Iron Man Fellowship breakfast as we took up the topic. … Continue reading
Filed under Banner of Truth, books, Counsel, Culture, Human nature, ministry, Personal, relationships
The God of all comfort
Every so often find the Bible passage I am reading to be “perfectly timed” for the season of life I find myself in (and this seems to happen more frequently as I age). Reading the first chapter of 2nd Corinthians … Continue reading
What Kind Of A Pastor Do Sinners Need?
A wonderful reminder… pdb What Kind Of A Pastor Do Sinners Need?.
Filed under Counsel, ministry, relationships, sin
What to do if you wake up feeling fragile?
My former pastor John Piper has answered this question online… There are mornings when I wake up feeling fragile. Vulnerable. It’s often vague. No single threat. No one weakness. Just an amorphous sense that something is going to go wrong … Continue reading
Filed under Blogroll, Counsel, guidance, Human nature, Piper
Parental advice about FACEBOOK
Dr David Murray has made a 6 minute video packed with Christian counsel to parents on the use of social media (particularly FACEBOOK) entitled, “TRAINING OUR KIDS TO USE FACEBOOK FOR GOD’S GLORY.” I encourage you to view it, and … Continue reading
Filed under America, Counsel, Parenting, technology
Words to strengthen the heart
To encourage someone is a great, and proper thing. The root meaning of the word has to do with imparting strength to the heart — strengthening someone’s inner man or attitude or resolve so that they might persevere in a … Continue reading
Filed under books, Counsel, Human nature, relationships, Scripture
Timeless wisdom meets social media
Tim Challies brings Solomon like wisdom to bear (quoting Proverbs) on the modern use of social media in his post today. If you blog (or read lots of blogs), post comments, or use Facebook, et cetera, please take a prayerful … Continue reading
Confession: refusing to be stuck in regrets
Paul Tripp writes, Confession is not only owning responsibility before God and the appropriate people (those whom my sin and failure has affected), but it is refusing to be stuck in our regrets, and refusing to give up hope. It … Continue reading
God says, “I will guide you…”
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go; I will guide you with My eye.” Psalm 32:8 John MacDuff — “THE THOUGHTS OF GOD” No more precious assurance can I have, than this: that … Continue reading
