The Return

My beautiful love comes home tomorrow...


We head here.....


Let's just say I am very happy.

We Become What We Worship

I touched on idolatry last Sunday in my sermon on the Church as the Bride of Jesus, and noticed a couple days ago that the release date has been set for Greg Beale's biblical theology of idolatry. I have read and heard Greg on this subject and I have no doubt that it will be a penetrating biblical analysis of all the relevant texts and our own hearts. Hasten the date of its release (11/08)!

Good Words, Bad Words, and Big Words

I mentioned several posts ago a Desiring God conference that is coming up...here are two wonderful words of wisdom, some of which may surprise you, from Paul Tripp and Sinclair Ferguson.

Paul Tripp describes the heart behind "bad" words and "good" ones (offensive language follows):



Sinclair Ferguson describes how a big term like "imputation" defines the Gospel and calls one to live according to the Gospel:

The Church as the Bride of Jesus

My sermon preached last night at the Crossing Church in Tucson, AZ is now up and is the second part of a 2 part series on the church that I had the pleasure of preaching here in Tucson. This is titled "The Church as the Bride of Jesus".

Playing in the McKale Center

I had the privilege of playing in the McKale Center where the Arizona Wildcats play and the great Lute Olson coaches NCAA basketball. I have never played in a gym that large before. Now, I can say I played where Sean Elliot, Steve Kerr, Mike Bibby, Damon Stoudamire and the great Jud Beuchler played college ball.

Here is the ironic part: we played football. Let's just say its not what I had been told was going to happen...and what happens when you don't get the right tools to get the basketball hoops up.

Now my grandchildren get to here the great story of the day their grandpa played football in the McKale Center.

Cheers to two-hand touch.

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Orphan

"In you the orphan finds mercy." Hosea 14:3

Increasing Your Vision of the Church

The sermon I preached last evening at the Crossing is now online. The tech team did not mess around in getting that up: great job.

The title is "Increasing your Vision of the Church" (right click and "save as" to download) and is the first part of two sermons on the theme of the church that I will be preaching here in Tucson, AZ.

A Film Worth Every Penny

Go see it. One sentence of review here: The Dark Knight, is an unrelenting and marvelous dark film.

Seeing this in the Imax was truly a breathtaking experience and very memorable.

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Off to AZ.

I will be leaving for Arizona this evening. I will try to keep updated the next few weeks with occasional blog posts.

I will also be speaking this coming Sunday and the following Sunday at The Crossing Church on the doctrine and nature of the church. I'm glad for this opportunity to speak to God's people on such a great theme that I do not believe I have directly preached on before. I will post the audio when it is up and any sermon notes. I have preached once there before and really enjoyed it.

I'm also looking forward to re-unification with my wife who has been on a international university program learning Spanish in Oaxaca, Mexico this summer. Amen!

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Putting the Stimulus in the Economic Stimulus Package

This is very sad news.

According to PRNewswire adult online porn has been a large beneficiary of the checks that the government sent to many Americans the last few months.

I wonder how much of this was from Christian men and women?