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Preparing you to be encouraged not exhorted.

This Sunday we plan to sing a worship song  that reminds us of the life changing nature of God’s Holy Word.  We can easily take for granted on Sunday morning when we choose among which of our Bibles to carry to church that this book has come to us on a river of blood.  We forget that God’s providential preservation of His Word has cost countless, faithful servants their…

Boasting…in the cross

What do you boast in? Martyn Lloyd-Jones is one of my favorite authors and has written one of the books that has had the greatest impact on my life.  I want to introduce him to you over time and hope that brief nuggets of the clarity, wisdom and insight he offers will encourage you to hunger to read more of his writings and sermons. In this quote, he is commenting…

“Bring a #2 pencil.”

For many of us, those four words have a very clear implication.  A test is coming.  For those of us who have grown up in the age of scantron answer sheets, filling in bubbles with #2 pencils, has become a right of passage.  I was always thankful when I learned that the exams were going to be scantron, because that meant multiple-choice, or sometimes more…