Monthly Archives: March 2012

The role of grace in ministry

March 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

Another quote from Speaking the truth in Love by David Powlison: The place of grace? Biblical counseling is the ministry of God’s grace to individuals, just as biblical preaching is the ministry of God’s grace to crowds. Grace is the only context in which to take any soul to task. (p48) Closing words from chapter [...]

On people who do not listen to wise counsel

March 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

David Powlison on one of two types of people we counsel: They are fundamentally closed to what the true God is all about. Perhaps they view God as “the errand boy to satisfy [their] wandering desires” as Bob Dylan sang. They might talk God-talk and be religiously active and have spiritual experiences…but they want something [...]

C. S. Lewis Wrap Up

March 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

Over the last couple of months, I’ve read seven C. S. Lewis books and posted extracts or posts about them here. So I thought I’d write an index of those posts for quick reference. From Surprised by Joy: C. S. Lewis’s conversion from atheism Quotes from Surprised by Joy From The Lion, the Witch and [...]

Eschatology in the Last Battle

March 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Last Battle is the last book in the Chronicles of Naria and tells of the end of Narnia and the afterlife of Narnians. Some have said that it tells us something about the Eschatology of C.S. Lewis. With this in mind, I have written an analysis of the book in an attempt to examine [...]

Apps I love – Alfred

March 16, 2012 | 1 Comments

One of the nice things about the Mac is the nature of the software market around it. There are a lot of small developers doing some great products. I know there are lots of small development shops on Windows too, but my experience with small apps on Windows is different. There are some developers who [...]

The dictatorship of pride

March 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

From the Business of Heaven: It is a terrible thing that the worst of all the vices can smuggle itself into the very centre of our religious life. But you can see why. The other, and less bad, vices come from the devil working on us through our animal nature. But this does not come [...]

God and Evil

March 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

Jay Adams on reconciling God and evil. Simply this: God controls all things, even the existence and activity of evil. We must remove the word “allows” when speaking of God and evil. He doesn’t merely allow evil to occur. If so, there would be another power, or force, in the universe as great as (or [...]

Memorization – a Mother’s methods

March 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

How did Cherie, a busy mother memorize 32 chapters of the Bible? Is it possible for you to memorize scripture? Read through the methods Cherie used and see for yourself. It is possible. Don’t start with the goal of memorizing 32 chapters, but start with a goal of memorizing a chapter and work from there. [...]

Memorization – a Mother’s story

March 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

After my post about memorizing scripture in January, I received an email from a busy wife and mother named Cherie who told me she had been memorizing scripture and had now memorized 32 chapters in total, and was on her way to memorizing more. Cherie was willing to share her story, so here it is. [...]

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