The Daily Discovery (November 4, 2016)

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What Does It Mean to Be Reformed? – “Every year or so I find myself crawling back to a definition of the word Reformed that I first wrote up a couple of years ago. I find it worthwhile to revisit this every twelve months or so. With the amount of reading and studying I do in a year, I feel it is interesting to turn to this definition to see what I would change and what I would refine. I also find it humbling to see which parts of the definition I may have emphasized at the expense of others.”

Marriage Isn’t Meant to Meet Your Needs – “One of my favorite cartoons shows a group of cavemen standing on top of a cliff, watching one of their own fall over the edge. But he hasn’t fallen—he’s been thrown. As he falls, the group’s leader looks angrily at the others. ‘Well, is there anyone else here whose needs are not being met?’ This is a mischievous but timely critique of a culture in which we expect everything—including our marriages—to meet our needs. When we approach marriage expecting our needs to be met, we fail to understand the real nature of love, and we sow seeds of marital destruction. God hasn’t designed marriage as a means to meet our personal needs. Assuming marriage is about meeting needs is dangerous for at least two reasons.”

Four Key Principles of Repentance – “In our family devotions we have been sharpening some big beliefs, learning some big truths. We have been doing this with help from David Helm as he has led us through the Westminster Confession of Faith. This was a confession that played an important role in my younger years, but one I had neglected until recently. It has been a joy to return to it and learn from it again.”

May I Exhort You, Dear Christian, to Invest in a Well Made Bible? – “I remember, after the Lord saved me, receiving my first official Bible as a brand new Christian. Sure, I had a stubby, little gift KJV Bible my mom bought me when I was in 6th grade after I completed my confirmation classes at my old United Methodist Church, but receiving a new Bible after I came to know the Lord was extra special. It was a Ryrie Study Bible (I still have it), black, genuine leather in the King James. It is filled with my hand written notes and yellow marker hi-lights I made on verses as I began to fully understand biblical truth for the first time. I am sure readers may be familiar with what I am talking about because you probably have the same kind of Bible somewhere in your house.”

This Isn’t Love: Christian Author Puts Millstone Around Neck of Sinners – “So apparently another prominent ‘Christian’ has exposed themselves to be more in love with the world than the Word.  It’s sad, but this is the separating of wheat from chaff that is going to be necessary if any hope of spiritual revival in our culture is to manifest.  That may sound judgmental or prideful, rendering the verdict that author Jen Hatmaker (who recently announced her belief that homosexual gay sex was holy) is among the chaff, but please understand the measuring rod I am using to come to such a conclusion. This is about the Word of God.”

SERMON:

2016 Presidential Election and Current Events Summit

(You may have to “click through” to see the video.)

VIDEOS:

Christian, You Are Free Not to Vote

Marks of a Healthy Church: A Live Interview with Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman

“All death can do to the believer is deliver him to Jesus.  It brings us into the eternal presence of our Savior.” – John MacArthur

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