Want fresh joy?

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD Isaiah 29:19

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Casting crowns

Revelation 4 shows the 24 elders casting their crowns before the throne (Rev 4:10).  Though these have been given by the Almighty Father Himself, all the elders can think to do with them is throw them to the ground in His presence.  We can almost hear them singing Psalm 115 as they do it: “Not [...]

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Draw Near – Hebrews 10:19-39

A sermon on Hebrews 10:19-39. Audio of 30 minute version.  Audio of 15 minute version. Drawing Near 19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since [...]

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Spouse speak

Been talking marriage stuff with other couples recently.  Some thoughts on spouse-speak: Husbands are called particularly to love.  Wives called particularly to respect (Ephesians 5:33) In sin, spouses will speak the opposite of what their spouses need. Therefore in anger a husband’s words will kill and a wife’s will emasculate. The damage of harsh words [...]

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Arian misogyny

Finally!  JW’s knocked on my door this morning.  First time ever.  An older guy and a younger Polish woman. So I threw some Gen 19:24 shapes their way. “To which Jehovah are you witnessing, the LORD out of the heavens or the LORD on the earth?” The woman seemed quite interested.  The man said “Trinity?  [...]

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Happy Friday

“You some day” “No choice” .

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Amen Amen [Thawed out Thursday]

If you ever say Amen it’s usually a response to what someone else has said or prayed, right? And it’s usually after what they’ve said, right? And only if it’s really good do you repeat it: ’Amen, Amen!’, right? So it’s an affirmation that someone else has just spoken truth (Amen is straight from the Hebrew [...]

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Anyone know this Dawkins quote?

Somewhere in God Delusion Dawkins says something about how if God existed and were moral he should be interested in what we do, not in what we happen to believe. Something like that.  I don’t have the book and I can’t find it online.  Anyone know the quote? .

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Everyone has their armageddon

It’s just a question of which armageddon btw it’s a spoof!

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Spare EMA tickets perchance?

Do you have EMA tickets but know you can’t make it to certain days/sessions?  Love to hear from you. Comment or email: glenscrivener at gmail dot com And if Adrian Reynolds is reading – W I L L   B L O G   F O R   T I C K E T S !

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Is she a doubler?

Today I heard one more story of a keen young gospel soldier recently married.  From what I can tell the wife is feeling abandoned, isolated and increasingly desperate.  And the husband is pressing on in his ministry service for the Lord! If I had a minute with the young gun I’d ask him to read [...]

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This is The Man’s world

Mike Reeves on a theology of music: Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 ht Dave Bish – click for more resources and good comments. His basic point is that Christians are generally pretty atheistic when they think about the world around us.  We readily think that Christian truth is a gloss that we apply to [...]

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True Guilt, True Cleansing – Hebrews 10:1-18

A sermon on Hebrews 10:1-18.  Audio here (recording failed at church, re-recorded at home). Out, damned spot! out, I say! Lady Macbeth’s line is one of Shakespeare’s most famous.  In the first act of Macbeth she helps her husband to murder the King and by the end of the play she is in mental torment [...]

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How to despise yourself

From the very first verse, Job is presented as a blameless and upright man. The LORD is proud of Job’s matchless virtue (1:8; 2:3).  Job fears God and shuns evil.  And even when calamity falls he does not sin by cursing God (1:22; 2:10).  Instead, through all his laments and complaints, the LORD is still [...]

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Happy Friday

Tim Cairns also wants you to waste your afternoon on this addictive little cricket game.  If you have deadlines this afternoon don’t click.  Seriously, if you’re a cricketer you won’t be able to resist trying to score a hundred.  And you’ll never get that hour of your life back.  So, seriously, my advice, don’t. Just [...]

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Means of Grace not the end of our work [Thawed out Thursday]

The means of grace (things like preaching and sacraments) are meant to be just that.  Means by which the grace of God reaches down to us.  I’ve been reflecting recently that often we try to absolutize the means of grace so that they become not means but ends in themselves, and not grace (i.e. His [...]

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Running away from the God of love

Harry Moorehouse was an English evangelist known as “the Boy Preacher” on account of his youthful looks.  Moody wasn’t particularly keen, but Moorehouse invited himself to Moody’s church in Chicago to preach. Moorehouse was to have a massive impact on Moody’s preaching, but Moody wasn’t even present for his first sermon.  However his wife, Emma, [...]

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Evangelism and Pastoral Care

We often think of evangelism and pastoral care as very different practices pulling in very different directions.  “She’s a born evangelist but he’s pastorally sensitive” we say.  And the thought of a “pastorally sensitive evangelist” sounds as likely as a “compassionate traffic warden.” But speaking as someone with a heart for both let me outline [...]

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