November 2011
1 post
Last year, I helped Trent write a Christmas song...
September 2011
1 post
Here’s a little clip of a Charles Wesley...
December 2010
1 post
Just wanted to post a part of worship that was...
September 2010
2 posts
“In many cases, we may, by the rules of the gospel, be obliged to give to others,...”
– Jonathan Edwards
Melt, Crush, Throw
Are we to entertain or pansy around idols in our lives?!
Deuteronomy 9:21: “Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.”
August 2010
4 posts
Christ has done it all
‘…they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.’ Psalm 22 (v.31)
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
4 posts
Finito
“You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there. Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Our God is a God of salvation, and to GOD, the Lord, belong deliverances from death. But God will strike the heads of his enemies…” Psalm 68:18-21b
Thank...
An oldie that never got recorded.. finally...
May 2010
9 posts
A Gospel Backdrop Painted in the Psalms
Psalm 28:3-5 “Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts. Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward. Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he...
“If, as seems evident from the New Testament, churches grew by continually...”
– Total Church : Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
“…Lead me to the rock that is higher than I...” ...
We have been so utterly humbled that by Jesus’ grace and for the sake of his gospel, we have been called to join his mission in London for the last year, to live here on mission as a family and to serve as a worship leader at Reality London. It has been amazing to see and be a part of the birth of the first international Reality Church plant, as well as serve here alongside Pastor Mark Dyrud and...
Cause-and-Effect
Jeremiah 29:7&11:
“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”……” For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Both passages can’t be viewed individualistically....
April 2010
5 posts
marveling.com.org.gov.co.uk
I have been marveling at the Gospel according to Jesus. Words that burst forth truths such as righteousness by grace alone through faith alone and how our standing with God is based on Jesus and not ourselves(Luke 18:9-14)…or how the gospel reveals God’s heart for both the bad and good(Matthew 22:10), the publicly scorned(Matthew 21:3, Luke 7:36-50) the lost and found(Luke 15:11-32)...
March 2010
9 posts
“…The biblical gospel of atonement is of God satisfying himself by...”
– John Stott
“Christ has done it all”
I got...
““Is it a problem that some of us who are tranquil as still water about...”
– Russell Moore via between two worlds
Okay… two weeks until Reality London will no longer be meeting at the Gate Cinema, at least not at this present time. Mark and I have been committed to search everywhere from pubs, to old church building, to vacant letting offices, but ultimately its God that has to direct his church.
We believe that the Lord strategically creates circumstances such as a church being without a permanent...
While I was walking Trent to school today, I asked him to tell me a story, any story… He started talking about swords of course, and Joseph(?-he’s 4, he mixes stories),and then stated the most brilliant truth: “and Jesus didn’t save himself”. As far as I know, he was remembering Jesus being betrayed/arrested. Which was an amazing reminder to me from my son..
The...
1+2
“It should be no surprise… that Jesus said that ‘all the Law and Prophets hang on these two commandments’: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself(Matt. 22:34-40). The two commandments go together. The first produces the second, and the second proves the first.”
February 2010
5 posts
Watch
January 2010
9 posts
An overlooked component of Spiritual Armour
-A Christ centered view on suffering!
1 Peter 4:1 “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking…”
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but...”
– Isaiah 55:10-11
“Prayer puts God in the place of the all-sufficient Benefactor and puts us in the...”
– John Piper ‘Let the Nations be Glad’
a few tips
tips for while you are at the super market:
1) probably not a good idea to approach a super market thief
(if you fail to follow that first bit of advice):
2) when the guy starts walking toward you, pretend like you were talking to someone else
(if you fail that bit):
3) when the guy threatens your life, back up/shut up…fast
…I don’t have a 4th tip, thank goodness…...
I’ve been all about the piano for quite a...