How to Know Your Idols: 13 Helpful Questions

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/2624_13_questions_to_diagnose_your_idolatries/

An Important Reminder for Parents and Students-- Please read this!"

“And Then They Are All Mine” — The Real Agenda of Some College Professors

On many campuses, a significant number of faculty members are representatives of what has been called the “adversary culture.” They see their role as political and ideological, and they define their teaching role in these terms. Their agenda is nothing less than to separate students from their Christian beliefs and their intellectual and moral commitments.

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The Light of Jesus Christ

On Sunday morning, August 15, I preached from Acts 9:1-19, that stunning record of Saul’s conversion from enemy to lover of Christ.  When Jesus appeared to Saul as he traveled to carry out systematic persecution of believers in Damascus, “suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him” and he fell to the ground!  A light…Saul was in spiritual darkness and blind, and the Light invaded his life!  Don’t you just love that?  Join me in giving praise to the Lord for piercing the darkness of sin and death in us and being our Light!

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.  The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:1-5).

“Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the Light of the world.  Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life” (John 8:12).

The Lord Jesus Christ “is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in approachable light…” (1 Timothy 6:16.)

Eager to Criticize: Do I Believe the Gospel?

http://takeyourvitaminz.blogspot.com/2010/08/eager-to-criticize.html

What God Commands, He Empowers and Provides for!

In my sermon on August 8th, "The Gospel: On to Africa" (Acts 8:26-40), I included this proposition: "What God commands (His Commission), He empowers and provides for!  Then I spoke of ways in which the Lord does this.  You may want to be reminded of these five points as they are posted here in the next several days.  Here is the first one:

* God positions His gospel-people (sometimes in extraordinary ways).  vs. 26-27a

He positioned Philip and He positions you.  How do you respond to this?

- Do you live in awareness that, as a gospel-person, the Lord positions you to be His witness-- workplace, TDY assignments, home, school?

- Are you willing to go where the Lord sends you, to a desert place, to hard places?  On mission?  A change in career, perhaps?  Abandonment of the American dream?  To be used in pursuit of completion of the Great Commission, for the glory of Christ?

I am praying for all of us, including myself, that we would love Christ and His glory and His gospel and lost people so much that we be willing and compelled to obey as He positions us, especially among the people-groups of the world and the hard places around us.

Overruling Biblical Truth: Judge Defines Marriage

Don't miss this important article by Dr. Al Mohler.
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