HE CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Jason Helopoulos on Good Reasons for Moving On

Jason Helopoulos on Good Reasons for Moving On

Men with a whole heart

Men with a whole heart

Ghana: The Team That Prays Together | Liveblog | Christianity Today

I'm officially rooting for Ghana:

Ghana: The Team That Prays Together | Liveblog | Christianity Today

A NEW HEART

Would you know the reason why so many hear the Gospel year after year, and yet remain unmoved by it? Their minds seem like Bunyan’s “slough of despond.” Cartloads of good instruction are poured into them without producing any good effect. Their reason is convinced. Their head assents to the truth. Their conscience is sometimes pricked. Their feelings are sometimes roused. Why then do they stick fast? Why do they tarry? It is their hearts which are in fault! Some secret idol chains them down to the earth, and keeps them tied hand and foot, so that they cannot move. They need a new heart. Their picture is drawn faithfully by Ezekiel, “They sit before you as my people, and they hear your words—but they will not do them—for with their mouth they show much love—but their heart goes after their covetousness.” (Ezek. 33:31). 

~ J.C. Ryle

Burning Grace

"A Xian Saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel at takeoff."

-Dallas Willard

Clown Camp

I wouldn't step foot (or let my kids step foot) within a mile radius of this:

Clown camp teaches kids more than just how to laugh | NewsOK.com

Take Up Your Cross

“It is only when you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow your Lord that you begin to experience the transcendent humanity for which you were created. Remember, Christ’s call to you is a rescue.

In asking you to deny yourself and follow, He is giving to you what you could never earn or achieve on your own. You will not find it in your marriage, in parenting your children, in accumulating possessions, in the esteem of friends, in theological knowledge, or in the most beautiful location.

Christ offers you what you cannot earn and what the physical creation can never offer: the all-surpassing glory of knowing Him. This is the world’s best prize. This is the universe’s best meal. This is the only thing that will give life meaning and fill you with lasting joy.

The final question: in your everyday situations and relationships, where are you finding it hard to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Christ?”

–Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You(Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2008), 121.

Claremont seminary reaches beyond Christianity - latimes.com

The most absurd idea I have ever heard of:

Claremont seminary reaches beyond Christianity - latimes.com

HT: Mohler

Restaurant or Family???

I'm not at all a Driscoll groupie, but this is very good:

Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com

I can't believe I missed this last week:

Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Fun Stuff

I just finished this book with my girls:

Really???

Father's Day cards? Really???

This One from WSJ

According to Dorothy Rabinowitz the distance between this president and people is being revealed:

"A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class."

Rest of the the article here.

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Article on Technology Rewiring our Brains

A Sweet Reunion for Coach Wooden

I respect John Wooden as much as any sports figure I can think of. He died today, and I remembered this piece by Rick Rielly done last year:

A VOICE for Life

HT: Challies (again)

When it Rains it Pours

I know very little about Grace Community Church in San Antonio. I know they meet in a burger joint called Fatty's, which is fantastic, and I know they make great videos:

Grace Community Church of San Antonio, Texas from I'll Be Honest on Vimeo.

#10: Truly Reformed

Ray Ortlund does it again:

#10: Truly Reformed

His Conclusion:

My Reformed friend, can you move among other Christian groups and really enjoy them?  Do you admire them?  Even if you disagree with them in some ways, do you learn from them?  What is the emotional tilt of your heart – toward them or away from them?  If your Reformed theology has morphed functionally into Galatian sociology, the remedy is not to abandon your Reformed theology.   The remedy is to take your Reformed theology to a deeper level.  Let it reduce you to Jesus only.   Let it humble you.  Let this gracious doctrine make you a fun person to be around.  The proof that we are Reformed will be all the wonderful Christians we discover around us who are not Reformed.   Amazing people.   Heroic people.  Blood-bought people.   People with whom we are eternally one – in Christ alone.

The awakened capacity to adore

From Ray Ortlund's Blog:

The awakened capacity to adore