by ccpwebteam | Dec 22, 2011 | Spiritual Life
For the week in between Christmas and New Year’s, I hope to post a series of thoughts and helps for thinking through, and hopefully growing in, our private relational life with the Lord. Christian short hand for this is “personal devotion” time. To...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 21, 2011 | Couples/Marriage, Spiritual Life
This blessed Veronica and I a while ago when we read about how this pastor and his wife (Noël) spent time together in the scriptures and in prayer. We have done this though a couple books, and it is a rich time to sit together with the word. On some nights I...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 17, 2011 | Monday Study Notes, Spiritual Life
A sneak preview of Monday Night’s study–John’s logic in 1 John 2:1 and its implications for believers: Jesus Christ is the Righteous One. And He is our “advocate” before the Father. The Father is God. God is the offended party “if...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 17, 2011 | Spiritual Life
This post follows yesterday’s, where we looked at the similarities between the accounts of the temptation of Eve in Genesis 3 and Joseph in Genesis 39. First we looked at similarities in the stories (both situations involved someone given authority with one...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 16, 2011 | Spiritual Life
This will be the first in a two-part post looking at a couple stories in Genesis which help us think through how to defeat temptation: first, the story on Eve and the serpent in chapter 3, then the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife in chapter 39. I recently...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 12, 2011 | Culture, Spiritual Life
Ran across this interesting sermon excerpt from D.A. Carson. Aside from some of his out-of-date comments about the economy (and it was only 2007!), he looks at the call of the prophet Ezekiel and makes some good observations on what it means to be called (as we all...
