Parents: Good Stuff for Discipling Your Children

Blog: Between Two Worlds
Post: "Praise Factory" Children's Curriculum
Link: http://theologica.blogspot.com/2009/07/praise-factory-childrens-curriculum.html

Tools for Connecting with Neighbors

Blog: Between Two Worlds
Post: Tools for Connecting with Neighbors
Link: http://theologica.blogspot.com/2009/07/tools-for-connecting-with-neighbors.html

READING THIS ARTICLE MOVED ME DEEPLY

...and gave perspective and reinforcement to my convictions that pursuing an Associate Pastor for Student Discipleship and Family Equipping is vitally important for our church.  Please pray for dads and moms and children and youth, that God will grant us gracious help in bringing up our children in the Lord.

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2009/4101_The_Sorrows_of_Fathers_and_Sons/

The God-centered Gospel is Powerful!

I was almost overwhelmed to read this article and interview and I recommend it to you.  The power of the God-centered gospel and resurrection hope is great!  Amazing grace!

Here is the interview, from www.challies.com.

PRAY EARNESTLY

“When He (Jesus) saw the crowds, He had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Matthew 9:36-38

When our staff gathered to pray this morning (July 13) I read aloud Matthew 9:36-38. Yesterday morning before Sunday School classes, we gathered in the “quad” and prayed for a group of Rocky’s students and adults as they departed for GOD NOW: NASHVILLE, a combination missions/camp week. I praise the Lord that RBBC has been His conduit for sending workers into the harvest for many years, both short and long- term missionaries. May it be that this will always be so with all the more frequency and intensity.

Let us “PRAY EARNESTLY” (literally, “beseech” God) that the Lord will send all of us out into His harvest. His harvest is everywhere around us—in Niceville, Nashville, and the nations. Let us pray earnestly for one another that we will be keenly aware that the Lord is sending us daily into His harvest in our homes, businesses, job sites, schools, stores, medical facilities, neighborhoods, travels, deployments, and friendships.

After praying in a small circle with Bob Enright and Chris Quinlan this morning, I asked myself, ‘Do I “pray earnestly” for the Lord to send out laborers into His harvest? And where does such earnestness come from?’ Then I read the verses again and saw Christ’s heart described: “When He saw the crowds, He had compassion for them…” (verse 36). I think that earnest prayer flows from compassionate, Christ-like hearts. Therefore, let us see lost people the way Jesus does; let us ask Him for His heart of compassion; let us beseech the Lord to send workers—us and others of our RBBC family—into His harvest.

I am praying for our Nashville team…and you, too, our Niceville and beyond team. Let us proclaim Christ and His gospel wherever we are in the Lord’s harvest fields.

Messiah Jackson?

Lost people all look to saviors, and settle for far, far, far less than the Lord Jesus Christ. Read this article and pray and consider: Who or what are you, your family, and friends embracing as messiah?

Blog: Between Two Worlds     
Post: Messiah Jackson?     
Link: http://theologica.blogspot.com/2009/07/messiah-jackson.html

Suing Because The Baby Should Have Been Killed, But Lived Instead

Blog: Take Your Vitaminz
Post: Suing Because The Baby Should Have Been Killed, But Lived Instead

Link: http://takeyourvitaminz.blogspot.com/2009/06/suing-because-baby-should-have-been.html