1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How we use our money;
4. What we do with our leisure time;
5. The company we enjoy;
6. Who and what we admire;
7. What we laugh at.
A.W. Tozer
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Rules For Self Discovery
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Prayer
Grant us purity of heart
and strength of purpose,
that no selfish passion
may hinder us from knowing Your will,
and no weakness
hinder us from doing it;
but that in Your light
we may see light,
and in Your service
find our perfect freedom;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430)
Saturday, November 1, 2014
October Padkos
Children in Worship Services – difficult one to get right. I like what I read here.
A series by Tim Challis :
How To Get Things Done
How To Get Things Done: Define Your Areas of Responsibility
How To Get Things Done – Time, Energy and Mission
4 Things That Happen When You Study Leviticus For 10 Years
6 Great Reasons To Study Doctrine – Tim Challis
What is Discernment? (Sinclair Ferguson)
The Authority, Sufficiency, Finality of Scripture (Sinclair Ferguson)
GK Chesterton and his ‘What I found in My Pocket’
Cheerful Confidence After Christendom
When Our Theology Stifles Our Compassion
Video – John Piper, Romans 8- When God Himself Speaks to You
Pure and Simple Devotion – Ben Stuart
Timothy Keller – Prayer & Quiet Times
The Secret of Aslan – I remember well my first voyage into Narnia…
2013 CS Lewis Conference (video)
A Professor of New Technology bans technology use in class. – very interesting. I’m always interested to see what influences us and how.
100 Best Christian Books - some surprising titles there. I’m putting this here for easy reference as I read through their reasons for including the titles they did.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
September Padkos
Pretty full month this time round! Lots of good stuff to share. Also remember to check out Christian Courses at RBC . They have many free courses available and regularly offer free graduate level/quality courses.
Love That Will Complete You “God is completing us by producing in us more and more love fuelled by truths about him and his world. He is sharpening our minds and hearts around what is good, and that love — built on the iron beams of knowledge and discernment — prepares us for him, for a perfect, holy God. God makes us ready for that day by teaching us more of his truth and making us more loving toward others. God does the work. That’s why it’s a prayer (Philippians 1:9) and not only a command. Paul is asking God to do it in them, in us.”
Jesus didn’t die so we could achieve the American Dream, but so that we could inherit immeasurable riches in the presence of God for eternity.
Jesus didn’t die so we could create our own little social/political kingdoms in this age, but so that we would rejoice in the coming kingdom of the next.
Jesus didn’t die so we could keep on sinning but so that we would have the desire to stop sinning and glorify him in all we do.
Jesus didn’t die so we could amass a spiritual resumé of good works but so that we could rest in his righteousness as we obey out of love and humility.
Let My People Think Part 1 – Ravi Zacharias
Let My People Think Part 2 – Ravi Zacharias
God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed
If Only You Knew What I Know - “Every church is a community of recovering sin-addicts, fellow sufferers who are longing for freedom. Freedom comes through principle taught and principle displayed. Who needs to hear you say, “Walk with me. Let’s learn to be like Christ…””
12 Step programmes work for addicts, what is lacking in the church?
Why Curious People Don’t Get Bored
Biblical Versus Systematic Theology
You Need The Power of The Holy Spirit
Making Sense of The Stories We Tell
Sobering Up : Prerequisite to a Good Prayer Life “Sobering up means that we see reality as it really is; that we recognize that time is short; that we give up any thoughts of trying to live or serve apart from the enablement that only God can offer.”
Look At The Book Great new ‘Biblestudy Guide’ from John Piper and Desiring God.
Busy Is Blasphemy – Written from the perspective of a pastor, but applies to us all. (Remember that the time on earth is not the only time we have, we do not have to do absolutely everything during our lifetime here. There is all eternity still to live…)
Read those Genealogies! I used to skip them until audio Bible listening took that option away from me. I’m so glad it did, I won’t skip them anymore. The article gives some clues as to why I now LIKE reading genealogies!
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Padkos–August 2014
Maybe I can group these by month…
Learn This Verse – John Piper.
A Closed Door. Before finishing the penultimate paragraph, I suddenly saw another way to understand the verse. I pause to think it through, came back and saw the author came to the same understanding. Interesting, never have looked at this verse in this way.
Look! A Distraction! Note what he says about deep thinking and deep relationships.
This one had some good points Teach Believers What Happened to Them in Conversion
I may not be in seminary, but this applies to us all : THREE DEATHS EVERY SEMINARIAN MUST FACE
This poem has always disgusted me. I much prefer the redeemed version! Invictus Redeemed
Lay Aside The Weight of Self-Indulgence
First Message from the ‘Only Two Religions’ series by Peter Jones
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Padkos
A new set of links, covering a variety of subjects :
The Kindness That Will Kill Your Church – Trevin Wax
Dostoyevsky the Prophet: The Trial of Dmitri Karamazov and the Redefinition of Family
Do You Pervert The Grace of God?
Faith and Mental Illness – Michael Horton
A Case For God RC Sproul
A Portrait of God - Ligon Duncan
Sharing His Story Not Yours = Trevin Wax
Should We Use Personal Testimony in Evangelism?
How Churches Became Cruise Ships
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Padkos
Breath taking links here. How great and how good is our God! May He ever be praised!
On Missionary outreaches – short term. Do and don’t do. Advice from one who knows both sides of the coin The Good Missionary
Freed From The Law – RC Sproul (Rom 7:1-6)
The War on the Word – this one should scare us all awake…
and the incredible ‘Why The God-Man” by Sinclair Ferguson
ON THE CRITICAL NEED FOR CONSTRUCTIVE THINKERS
Success is Dangerous – This reminds me of the little skit “Man Can Do It All By Himself” There is a very real danger in making things happen by ourselves, our effort, our abilities.
A reading list with a couple of titles that interest me : What We’re Reading This Summer
And another : Fiction Titles
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