Celebrating 5 glorious years of marriage Five years ago today Kari Zyp and I exchanged vows, and then I got to kiss the love of my life for the very first time. What an amazing time it has been, my Sauce. We’ve had our adventures: moving 7 times, living in two states, both following the call to seminary as students, raising Dutch, continuing to serve our Lord Jesus Christ, and being able to know, love and enjoy Him oh so much more because of one another. Sauce, I love you! I told you back then that I want to plunge the depths of who you are, and that passion has not and will not fade. You...

“What we suffer from … is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays, the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert — himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought to not doubt — the Divine Reason.” (emphasis mine) –(G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (Garden City, NY: Image Books Doubleday...

Christian Audio has made available a great free resource this month: The Life of David Brainerd (Unabridged) by Jonathan Edwards as a free audiobook. Be sure to use the coupon code OCT2007 I cannot recommend this book more highly. In fact, if I ever get my copy back, after someone borrowed it , I will read this book again, and again, and again. For now, I’ll listen to it. This book was chiefly compiled and expanded from Brainerd’s own daily journal by Jonathan Edwards, who was affected mightily by the young missionary. Although Brainerd died at the young age of 29 — of...

“….all the saving events and all the saving blessings of the gospel are means of getting obstacles out of the way so that we might know and enjoy God more fully. Propitiation, redemption, forgiveness, imputation, sanctification, liberation, healing, heaven – none of these is good news except for one reason: they bring us to God for our everlasting enjoyment of him.” (God is the Gospel, by John Piper, p. 47) [Read other posts related to GOD is the Gospel] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "God is the Gospel", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2007/08/23/god-is-the-gospel/" });

We must not think of the Gospel as merely our ticket to Heaven. We must see it is all of life, as in living out the Gospel, and seeing everything through the Gospel. Darrin Patrick and The Journey Church, have provided the following, in the model of Tim Keller (download as PDF): [TABLE=2] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Religion v. Gospel", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2007/08/06/religion-v-gospel/" });