Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! One of my favorite musicians today who is taking old hymns of the faith and making them new and fresh for today is Sandra McCracken. On her album In Feast or Fallow she has a beautiful prayer for thankfulness as the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I recently had the privilege and joy of baptizing my daughter. Whenever I baptize someone I always read some new literature or re-read some old literature on the topic just to remember the significance of baptism afresh. Here is a great, succinct,... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
This Sunday at Redeemer we will begin a new “Psalm of the Month” in our morning and afternoon services which we will sing every Sunday in that service for the month of October. The repetition of one Psalm is helpful for learning a new... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
George Bethune once said, “Perhaps no grace is less prayed for, or less cultivated than gentleness. Indeed it is considered rather as belonging to natural disposition or external manners, than as a Christian virtue; and seldom do we reflect that not... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
As we approach the baptism of Chloe Carol Cochran (my daughter!) tomorrow at Redeemer Reformation Church, here is a great reminder from the Westminster Larger Catechism on how we are to remember and improve our baptism: Question 167: How is our... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Here is my third point and conclusion from a sermon I recently preached on patience: III. In Thankfulness To God, Be Patient: With People Who Annoy You If love is patient and patience is being long-suffering and long-tempered, here we might say that... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
A great book on church planting is now on Kindle: Planting, Watering, Growing: Planting Confessionally Reformed Churches in the 21st Century, edited by Shane Lems and Daniel R. Hyde. Here is the publishers description: “As a response to the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Here are some powerful words on forgiveness from Graeme Goldsworthy’s in his book Prayer and the Knowledge of God: What the Whole Bible Teaches. He is commenting on the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “forgive us our debts, as... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Here is a beautiful meditation on unfulfilled prayer from James and Joel Beeke in their book, Developing a Healthy Prayer Life: 31 Meditations on Communing With God. There are 31 chapters/meditations and each one is so short that it is a great daily... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I recently preached on the doctrine of sanctification and listened to a few lectures by Sinclair Ferguson on this topic. In his first lecture he expounds upon the opening of Peter’s first letter, which he says has six massive foundation stones... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
