Pray For Haiti

Here is Pastor Mark Driscoll giving a presentation/sermon on his recent trip to Haiti and the devastation he saw while there.

May we not let the suffering in Haiti so casually pass from our minds but continue to pray for our brothers and sister there.

99 Balloons

From Justin Taylor

Tomorrow, as many of you know, is the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I’ll be posting an interview about how the decision can be overturned.

But let me commend for you a video that’s not about abortion per se, but rather about the dignity and value of human life. I’ve posted it before, but I’m doing so again, as it’s one of the most life-affirming, heart-rending videos I’ve ever seen.

I thank God for these parents who valued life and loved their son, and I think God for the short life of little Eliot Mooney, whom God is using to proclaim his glory.

I encourage you to watch the video and to pass it along.

99 Balloons from Igniter Media on Vimeo.

Francis Chan: What Is Your Life?

Francis Chan is a great pastor and writer who has a deep passion for living a life that is all about God. His book Crazy Love is a MUST read for all and one we have in our church book store. Here is a short clip in which he talks a bit about his book and our life on earth being just a vapor.

Reading Your Bible in 2010

In light of the challenge I threw out to our congregation yesterday to spend time in God's Word everyday in 2010, I wanted to share this great quote from J.C. Ryle...

“Begin reading your Bible this very day. The way to do a thing is to do it, and the way to read the Bible is actually to read it. It is not meaning, or wishing, or resolving, or intending, or thinking about it; that will not advance you one step. You must positively read. There is no royal road in this matter, any more than in the matter of prayer. If you cannot read yourself, you must persuade somebody else to read to you. But one way or another, through eyes or ears, the words of Scripture must actually pass before your mind.”~ J.C. Ryle, Practical Religion, “Bible Reading”, 131.

Less Of Us More Of Jesus

Some excellent quotes from this post by Tullian Tchividjian, “The Smaller You Get, the Freer You Will Be.”

Tullian reflecting on this past year, the hardest of his life:

God’s Spirit and God’s truth afflicted me in my comfort and comforted me in my affliction. As a result of this hard year, however, God and his gospel became more real and relevant to me than ever before. I’ve never felt so dependent on him. He’s never been so big; I’ve never been so small. The idea that Jesus plus nothing equals everything ceased being simply a cognitive truth for me—it became my functional lifeline.

From G.K. Chesterton:

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.

From D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones:

Our supreme need, our only need, is to know God, the living God, and the power of his might. We need nothing else. It is just that, the power of the living God, to know that the living God is among us and that nothing else matters. . . . I say, forget everything else. Forget everything else. We need to realize the presence of the living God amongst us. Let everything else be silent. This is no time for minor differences. We all need to know the touch of the power of the living God.

HT: Justin Taylor