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My dear boy. My sweet boy. My beloved boy. My missed boy. My waiting-for-me-in-heaven boy.
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There seems to be a law in this broken world that every strength is tempered with some kind of a weakness.
A pastor who is an especially powerful preacher may be an especially weak counselor; elders who are skilled and vociferous in defending the truth may fall short in grace
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How Long Is the Dash? Nick’s gravestone has finally been installed, and I have come to see it for the very first time. I have been looking forward to this day and dreading this day in equal measure.
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There may not be times in your marriage when you stop loving your wife, but there may be times when you stop liking her. There may be times when you are easily irritated with her, when you just can't get along, or when a kind of despondency enters into the way you think of her
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If God Did It, It Must Be Good. Right? "We have never doubted that God’s sovereignty and goodness were displayed in giving us our boy. We are fighting right now to never doubt that God’s sovereignty and goodness were displayed in taking away our boy."
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"I don’t always feel His presence. But God’s promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity." (R.C. Sproul)
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"Raise a daughter with a fully loaded heart and mind so that a fully loaded shotgun isn’t necessary. She shouldn’t need you to scare off weak suitors. Let her strength and dignity do the job." (Jen Wilkin)
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"Shallow Christianity will not last in the coming generation, and it will not grow. Cultural Christianity is fading. The church in the twenty-first century must go big on truth or go home." (Kevin DeYoung)
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"There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans." (Corrie ten Boom)
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A Message for Young Men
Somewhere out there in the great, wide world, someone is praying for you. He probably doesn't know you and you probably don't know him. You may not meet one another for many more years. But he's praying for you nonetheless and has been for a very long
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"The basis of my marriage is this: God has called me with an irrevocable, inexcusable calling to lay down my life for one specific woman all the days of her life. And to serve her unconditionally, whether she deserves it or not." (Paul Washer)
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"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million of enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference; He is praying for me." (Robert Murray McCheyne)
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"When work is an idol, rest will feel like a sin." (Gunner Gundersen)
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"There is more grace in God’s heart than there is sin in your past." (Erwin Lutzer)
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"Grace is forgiveness of sin, not approval of it." (Jared Wilson)
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"Before a sin, Satan tempts you to believe repentance will be easy. After a sin, Satan tempts you to believe repentance is impossible." (Garrett Kell)
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Dad Died with Dirt on His Hands (In honor of my dad on the day we say goodbye)
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"As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God’s grace." (Alistair Begg)
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A Mid-Winter Family Update: Here's a little update on what we're up to now that a couple of months have passed, now that we're (again) under stay-at-home orders, and now that college is about to begin once more.
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"All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God." (Oswald Chambers)
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"God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus." (Elisabeth Elliot)
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"God knew what we were before conversion- wicked, guilty and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion- weak, erring and frail; yet He loves us." (J.C. Ryle)
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"The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus." (Oswald Chambers)
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"He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace." (Joni Eareckson-Tada)
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A few lessons on parenting little ones.
Children are born sinners who are in need of a Savior. Almost before they are able to express anything else, they are able to express their rebellion against their parents. It's important to remind yourself often that their rebellion is
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"Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you." (J.I. Packer)
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Family Update: An Engagement, a Scholarship, and a Beautiful Bench | Tim Challies
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"The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith." (Sinclair Ferguson)
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"Seek to live a quiet life. Focus on where God has placed you and the work he has called you to in this moment. Pursue a heart of convictional kindness." (Aaron Armstrong)
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I haven’t really used Twitter/X in years. Are people able to read this kind of longish-form content? It let me share it, but I’m not sure if people can actually read it!
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"When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety." (A.W. Tozer)
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"My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me." (Charles Spurgeon)
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"When Jesus says he is Alpha and Omega, he is saying ’I am sufficient for everything; nothing is missing; I am all that you need." (Warren Wiersbe)
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"The real scandal of this universe is not that there is a hell, deserved by all, but that there is a heaven, offered to all." (Dane Ortlund)
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"Christ refuses none for weakness, but accepts none for greatness." (Richard Sibbes)
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"Prayer is never about asking God to submit his awesome power to your will and plan; prayer is an act of personal submission to the always-right will of God." (Paul David Tripp)
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"The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds." (Steve Lawson)
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"He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me." (A.W. Pink)
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"Lament is how you live between the poles of a hard life and trusting in God’s sovereignty. Lament is how we bring our sorrow to God. Without lament we won’t know how to process pain." (Mark Vroegop)
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"Prayerlessness is practical atheism, demonstrating a lack of belief in God." (Michael Reeves)
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"I never tire of preaching Christ. His eternality, transcendence, preeminence, incarnation, hypostasis, righteousness, impeccability, obedience, holiness, sacrifice, crucifixion, humiliation, resurrection, exaltation, ascension, session, glorious reign..." (Nate Pickowicz)
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"May our passion for Christ always be greater than our passion for an easy and comfortable life." (Burk Parsons)
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"Character doesn’t just appear out of nowhere; it is the result of God’s refining our lives through tribulation—and, yes, even suffering." (Sinclair Ferguson)
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"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." (Charles Spurgeon)
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"Satan is a lion (1 Pet. 5:8). Jesus is a lion (Rev. 5:5). One is on a leash. The other is on the throne." (Matt Smethurst)
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"If he gives you the grace to make you believe, he will give you the grace to live a holy life afterward." (Charles Spurgeon)
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"The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ." (Gloria Furman)
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"Our kids don’t need perfect parents. They need parents who know how desperately they need the Savior themselves." (Paul Tautges)
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"Not only is all your affliction momentary, not only is all your affliction light in comparison to eternity and the glory there. But all of it is totally meaningful...Therefore, therefore, do not lose heart." (John Piper)
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"There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian." (A.W. Tozer)
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"Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud." (Thomas Watson)
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"A person may not allow us to talk to them about God, but they cannot keep us from talking to God about them. The power of Intercession!" (Paul Washer)
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"The eye is made both for seeing and weeping. Sin must first be seen, before it can be wept for." (Thomas Watson)
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"The best sermon ever preached is a holy life. The best music ever chanted is a consistent walk. If you want others to serve God, serve him yourself." (DeWitt Talmage)
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"If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you." (C.H. Spurgeon)
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"Gospel-centered parenting means: How am I going to live in front of my child like I have put all of my hope in the gospel?" (Nancy Guthrie)
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"Kill your love for sin, or sin will kill your love for God." (Garrett Kell)
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I’m always fascinated to get inside glimpses of another person’s habits and routines, and especially so when that person is extremely disciplined.
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"We're not adrift in chaos. We're held in the everlasting arms. And this makes a difference. We can be at peace and we can accept." (Elisabeth Elliot)
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"If teenagers are listening to three hours of TV every day and averaging five minutes a day talking with their dads, who is winning the influence battle?" (Jay Younts)
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"Humility is the only soil in which true unity can grow. Only when Christ is more precious to us than our own reputations will we give up our petty rivalries and personal agendas. Only when his glory eclipses all else will we live for his cause and no other." (Michael Reeves)
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"One of the signs of Christian maturity is the ability to disagree with other Christians on secondary matters without vilifying them." (J.R. Vassar)
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"Make church attendance such a habit that there’s never a need for your kids to ask, “Dad, Mom, are we going to church tomorrow?”" (Paul Tautges)
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." (C.S. Lewis)
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"Contentment is the product of the heart that is resting in God." (A.W. Pink)
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"Some Christian people today who would never curse, steal, miss a prayer meeting, or think of getting drunk, respond with unrestrained anger toward those who disagree with them." (Alexander Strauch)
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"What God takes from me is less than I owe him, and what he leaves me is more than I deserve." (William Gurnall)
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"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea, until he has something to forgive." (C.S. Lewis)
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"We must never cease to pray for our children until they cease to breathe. No case is hopeless while Jesus lives." (Charles Spurgeon)
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"Prayer delights God's ear; it melts his heart; and opens his hand. God cannot deny a praying soul." (Thomas Watson)
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"A passion to preach without a discipline to prepare is just a desire to perform." (H.B. Charles Jr.)
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"If you are in Christ, your scars will not have the last word over your life. His scars will." (Sarah Walton)
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"The Christian’s armor will rust except it be furbished with the oil of prayer." (William Gurnall)
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Daddy, How Do I Look?
“Daddy, how do I look?”
Eyes sparkling. Cheeks glowing. Is that a touch of makeup, a little something to accentuate the green of her eyes? Since when has she been wearing makeup? She twirls daintily on silver shoes, hair streaming, dress floating.
“Daddy,
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"This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God." (David Mathis)
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