Update: Thanks for Praying for my recent time with my Dad

 

This is a quick update from my post My Dad’s Health and asking for prayers

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My Dad’s Health and asking for prayers

 

I try not to talk about my personal life on my blog but I thought I share this.

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Free PDF and Review: The Duties of Children and Parents

Richard Adams. The Duties of Children and Parents.  Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, April 20, 2015. 24 pp.

4 out of 5

Free: Chapel Library

Purchase: Amazon

Want to look for a short read on the duties of children and parents? If so this resource is for you.  Written by Richard Adams a seventeenth century English nonconformist pastor this is a practical aide driven by Scripture on duties of both children and parents.  I like how it is biblical, practical, addresses the heart and apply grace driven motivation and is short!  Its perfect as a counseling resource for pastors, biblical counselors and teachers.

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This Sunday at Church: Let your wife know you thank God for her being a Mother

For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Let your wife know you thank God for her being a mother.

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Guest Post: Lamenting Before God

Note: This is a guest post since presently I am teaching overseas. This is by Alan Kearns. His blog be found here.

 (The road south to Dundee. Photography courtesy of Ben Bremner. https://www.facebook.com/ben.bremner3)

Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord.

Lord, hear my voice!

Let Your ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplications.

— Psalm 130:1-2 NASB

The word lament is not used often nowadays in expression of deep sorrow or grief. According to the Oxford dictionary lamenting can be over the death of a loved one or the loss of an item or practice in society. Lament certainly is a word that has fallen out of fashion in the 21st Century, and when used it is often inaccurately so. To lament is seen as inappropriate and weak nowadays; modern funerals prefer to celebrate the life of the departed and often shun the need of the loved ones to grieve. Such practice goes against the natural order that the Creator intended for mankind.

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Jesus is Worth it: Reaching out to Korowai

I saw this documentary on Christian effort with missions to share the Gospel to the Korowai people.  It was touching.

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Prayers of Bloggers and my Mom reading the Bible

 

I try not to talk about my personal life on my blog but I thought I post this as a thank you and also spiritual encouragement.

A little over a year ago when the United States was going through its chaotic departure from Afghanistan I wrote a post “A Son of A Refugee’s Gratitude for Christians in America’s Mid-West.”  Some of the regular readers here have even commented and said this was one of the best post on our blog.  I talked about my mom’s refugee story from the Vietnam war, the love of Christ shown to my mom’s family from a Mid-West church who sponsored them and also prayers for salvation that might seem to go unanswered but sometimes answered in ways we don’t expect, with the next generation, and prayers answered after we have gone home to be with the Lord. 

I appreciate some commented and also said they will pray for mom’s salvation.

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Free PDF and Review: The Birth of Christ

 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The Birth of Christ.  Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, September 22nd 2016. 28 pp.

5 out of 5

Free: Chapel Library

Purchase: Amazon

Are you looking for spiritually edifying reading on the birth of Christ that is also biblically faithful and accurate?   This work is from Charles Spurgeon, the famous Victorian era Baptist Preacher.  Based upon a sermon he delivered at his church at New Park Street Chapel on Christmas Eve 1854, it blew my mind that these words was from Spurgeon when he was twenty years old.  The message in based upon Isaiah 7:14-15 and the truth Spurgeon delivered is timeless, Christ-centered and Gospel driven.

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Free PDF and Review: Thankfulness (Free Grace Broadcaster)

Various Authors. Thankfulness.  Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, November 8th 2016. 48 pp.

5 out of 5

Free: Chapel Library

Purchase: Amazon

Want to read something devotionally on the topic of being thankful and thanksgiving to the Lord?  This resource from Chapel Library might be for you.  Feature in this pamphlet are essays of various historic Protestant preachers and pastors on thanksgiving to God.  These authors are all tested saints from centuries ago but the truth found in its pages is timeless.  There’s various compiled writings from William Cooper, Richard Sibbes, Thomas Mantion, Charles Spurgeon and others.  This is my third Free Grace Broadcaster I read.  The earlier one I read was on Messianic Prophecies and Fatherhood.  Like the first one this particular booklet too was a spiritual delight!

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Review: Presup Shark Hoodie

Now for something fun!  I’m reviewing something I haven’t done before on this blog: a Christian apologetics hoodie!

 

My blog cover a lot on Presuppositional Apologetics.  I love it enough that I got something related to Presuppositional Apologetics besides books.  Since it is getting colder with the fall what an appropriate time to have a hoodie and also something with the theme of Presuppositional Apologetics.   

The above is a picture of the hoodie I ordered that is on this online Christian shirt shop called “The Powerful Christian.”  You can go to the store directory by clicking here.  (Its not a picture of me lol).  The shop have merchandise related to Presuppositional Apologetics and also Reformed theology.

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Free PDF and Review: Family Worship

J.H. Merle d’Aubigne. Family Worship. Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, June 20, 2014. 24 pp.

5 out of 5

Free: Chapel Library

Purchase: Amazon

Want something short to read while also being helpful concerning family Bible studies and family worship? I recommend this booklet fom Chapel Library!  This is written by J. H. Merle d’Aubigne.  Sadly I did not who he was until I got this from Chapel Library.  J. H. Merle d’Aubigne was a Swiss pastor and historian of the Reformation who lived from 1794-1872 and from what I can tell online he is most famous for his History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century.  For someone that could write serious history the author was also gifted to write practically and simply making this a highly recommended resource!

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Throwing away the Gospel and thrown away lotto tickets

I saw this news article titled “$200,000 lottery ticket nearly thrown in trash by winner.”  Now I don’t condone buying the lotto and I think it has impoverished many people who are desperate.  Bu I think there’s a lesson here about what we value and also the Gospel.

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Free PDF and Review: Fatherhood (Free Grace Broadcaster)

Various Authors. Fatherhood.  Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, June 20, 2014. 48 pp.

5 out of 5

Free: Chapel Library

Purchase: Amazon

What does the Bible have to say about fatherhood and also what are the insights of various historic Protestant preachers and pastors have from the Bible on fatherhood?  This booklet is a great resource for that.  It was originally an issue from the Free Grace Broadcaster from 2014 but the truth found in its pages is timeless.  There’s various compiled writings from John Calvin, A.W Pink, Richard Baxter, William Gurnall and Thomas Watson.  This is my second Free Grace Broadcaster I read.  The earlier one I read was on Messianic Prophecies.  Like the first one this particular booklet too was a spiritual delight!

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Free PDF and Review: Saul’s Conversion by George Whitefield

What have you been reading lately?

George Whitefield. Saul’s Conversion. Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, June 11, 2020. 24 pp.

4 out of 5

Free: Chapel Library

Purchase: Amazon

Can God use the persecution of Christians for the good of bringing nonbelievers to Christ?  Christians would know the right answer is yes yet many would not to be persecuted if they don’t have to be.  In this booklet famous preacher and evangelist George Whitefield wrote us something encouraging and edifying with a look at Saul and how God changed this man that persecuted the church to become an Apostle and incredible Gospel preacher name Paul.  While George Whitefield delivered us his words hundreds of years ago (he lived from 1714 to 1770) I think what he has to say is relevant for 21^st Century believers as the world gets more secular and persecutions of Christians is on the rise worldwide.

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A Ministry Lesson from “Entire Maine town forced to shut after its only clerk quits over denied vacation”

 

I think there’s a lesson from a newstory I saw “Entire Maine town forced to shut after its only clerk quits over denied vacation.”

Here’s the story:

 

I think there’s a lesson from a newstory I saw “Entire Maine town forced to shut after its only clerk quits over denied vacation.”

Here’s the story:

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