May « 2008 « da.rryl.me

Impact: Day 2

May 31, 2008 | 0 Comments

Today started off with some small administrative challenges of our own (getting up late, leaving my meal pass at the motel, etc), but then we started with the first session by Michael Grisanti – which was fantastic. Michael spoke about the covenant between God and Israel and specifically focused on a couple of key points [...]

Impact: Day 1

May 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

I’m at Impact Bible Conference in Hastings for the next four days, sitting under the preaching of the word of God. The two speakers this year are Scott Ardavanis and Michael Grisanti. Scott has been coming to New Zealand on a quasi-regular basis since the early 90s. I have heard him speak a couple of [...]

Mini Notebooks for Bible Study

May 28, 2008 | 4 Comments

If you haven’t noticed there is a new range of notebooks that are now hitting the markets – called the mini notebooks. These notebooks are tiny (around the size of a decent book) but in many cases pack the punch of a full laptop (sans DVD drive) for a very reasonable price. Take for example [...]

Sermon of the week: Sustaining the soul

May 25, 2008 | 0 Comments

This is the last talk from T4G08 and one which I found challenging. Like many conference sermons it is aimed at pastors, but the lesson is valid for everyone – and I found it very useful and challenging. C. J. Mahaney is extremely practical about the relationship between joy, gratefulness, complaining, godly affection and the [...]

New Attitude Conference

May 25, 2008 | 0 Comments

One of the things I’ve come to love about the Internet as a Christian is the conferences that are on. Increasingly the messages from these conferences are being made available free of charge. Recent examples include: Together for the Gospel Resurgence: Text and Context Desiring God Regional conference This weekend is the New Attitude conference [...]

Worship or curse

May 24, 2008 | 1 Comments

I’m still here. Its been a quiet week on the blogging from here, with having to make some changes to the site and the normal work load, I’ve been a little distracted. I still have two posts on reasons for the law that I want to get posted, but that can wait until next week. [...]

Sermon of the Week: I’m sending you to open their eyes

May 18, 2008 | 0 Comments

In this sermon from April is the final sermon from John Pipers excellent series on the new birth. In this sermon he talks about the role that each believer in Christ has for reaching those without Christ. He gives practical wisdom and encouragement that I found particularly useful in terms of setting my attitude toward [...]

Islamic converts in Malaysia to be issued a card upon conversion

May 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

This is interesting. In Malaysia, converts to Islam will be issued a card upon conversion. This is the validate the conversion of the person in the case that something happens to them. The reason for this is that once you are a Muslim your ways become Islamic and must be handled in the appropriate way [...]

How to approach God from the Law

May 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

This is part 4 in a series on five reasons for the law. The reasons are given here and the previous article – The righteousness of God in the law - is here. One interesting artifact of the old testament is the places where Israel could worship the Lord. There were two main locations given – [...]

I go to prepare a place for you

May 12, 2008 | 1 Comments

When we read this passage in John 14:2-3 we could be inclined to think of a mansion with Jesus rushing around fluffing pillows and making sure the furniture is in order before His guests arrive. I am going away to prepare a place for you (John 14:2) However, when we consider the new Jerusalem in [...]

The righteousness of God in the law

May 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

This is the third in the series on the reasons for the law. Check the intro here and the second instalment here. The origin of the law is with God. We hear it first communicated to man fully through the audible voice of God: “And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord [...]

Sermon of the week: Humanism and the glory of God

May 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

I loved this sermon. It is one of those sermons that makes the heart rejoice. It is a hard message though, and not everyone who hears it will like it – in fact most will find it repulsive because it exalts Christ to the utter exclusion of man. This is an old sermon by Paris [...]

The people of the Law

May 10, 2008 | 0 Comments

If we look at the founding document is Israel – the book of the covenant, we notice something interesting which we can see in the first four and last 13 verses. The first four verses really reiterate the first two or three commandments. They begin with laws about idolatry, which serve to uphold the holiness [...]

A little nugget on purpose

May 8, 2008 | 1 Comments

I’m reading a book at the moment which is a great book – very thought provoking. I’ll share the details at a later date, but here is a little nugget from it that I’ve been meditating on. “Indeed, what could be more ludicrous in a vast and glorious universe like this than a human being, [...]

Reasons for the law

May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments

Recently we covered off the question of why the law was given and we came up with five reasons which I'll cover over a few blog posts. This is not necessarily an exhaustive list, but it is the list we discussed. The five reasons are: To separate the people of God as a holy (separate) [...]

Introduction to the book of the covenant

May 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

One of the things we covered a few weeks ago in our study (that I haven’t posted up here) is the book of the covenant, however, lets take a quick look here as the book of the covenant has some clues in it around the purpose of the law which will be the topic of [...]

Sermon of the week – The Holiness of God

May 3, 2008 | 0 Comments

If you’ve never heard R. C. Sproul on the Holiness of God, then you really need to hear this – it is classic R.C. In this sermon R. C. takes us through Isaiah 6 – one of the great passages in the old testament. This is a simple, but deep, profound and powerful account of [...]

The yearning heart of Moses

May 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

We have seen the zeal of Moses for the glory of God in the way he dealt with the idolatry of the Israelites. This gives us a model to work with in terms of measuring our own zeal for God. However, Moses’ zeal was not just an external thing. The zeal we’ve seen is simply [...]

How Moses dealt with idolatry

May 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

After Moses interceded for Israel, he went down the mountain to deal with the idolatry that Israel were indulging in (Ex 32). Bearing in mind that Moses had been in the presence of God for more than a month, He is coming down the mountain with a fuller understanding of the greatness of God than [...]