I’ve been reading Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ, by John Bunyan.  Bunyan talks about the greatness of Christ’s forbearance, meekness and love to his people as he without end bears the burden of our continued provocation and sin against us.  Bunyan says, “Were we but capable of seeing how this Lord Jesus has been tried even by his people, ever since there was one of them in the world, we should be amazed at his patience and gentle behaviour to them.”[1] Bunyan goes on to show that Christ’s gentleness and patience is beyond the scope of anything that a...

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This morning we talked about the holiness of God and our response to his holiness.  One example we used was Isaiah's response to a time of national crisis in Israel, when King Uzziah died.  In this link, you can see the response of one pastor that I talked about on September 11.

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I love the Apple products, but never would have thought of them being, in any way, positive from a moral perspective, only from a business perspective.  However, in this post Justin Taylor shows us how Apple has taken a stand against pornography with the iPhone and iPad.

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I recently came across a short quote from an influential American preacher of the early 20th century, Vance Havner.  Havner succinctly articulates a true-to-life answer to a question that we, as Christians, continually ask of ourselves - "Am I growing?"  "How does growth happen?"  "What does growth look like?"  The question of Christian growth is fundamentally one that can only be answered  by looking backwards and evaluating where we have been and how those steps stand in contrast to where we currently find ourselves.  But do we realize that most of our growth comes from the everyday, ordinary faithfulness, rather than the mountain top...

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The heart is an idol factory, John Calvin tells us.  This is evident in the way we are always looking to build up and show off ourselves.  It seems that our number one idol is always me, myself and I.  We're constantly thinking about how things will affect us and how everything will make people think about us, even though most people are probably too busy thinking about themselves to worry about us, most of the time.  Brian Regan does a funny bit about the "Me Monster" at a dinner party (see below). The most uncomfortable part of it is...

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