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Welcome to my blog. I mostly write about Christian Living, but I enjoy the Kentucky Wildcats, New Orleans Saints, and a good cup of coffee.
Welcome to my blog. I mostly write about Christian Living, but I enjoy the Kentucky Wildcats, New Orleans Saints, and a good cup of coffee.
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Known as “The Heavenly Doctor”, Richard Sibbes is a Puritan writer that all Christians would do well to know and benefit from.
Crossway has rebranded the ESV Devotional Psalter and it now has a more devotional feeling name—In the Lord I Take Refuge. This book features the same devotions written by Dane Ortlund that were in the previous Devotional Psalter. This book will help the reader reflect and meditate on each Psalm in the Bible.
The Psalms are such a staple in the Bible. In them, we get the full range of human emotion. We get so much depth and insight into the Lord in the Psalms. We could spend the rest of our lives in the Psalms alone and never fully mine the riches contained within. I love the Psalms and I’m excited to bring you a unique review today from the good people at Crossway. The ESV Devotional Psalter is a beautiful edition of the Psalms that also includes a devotion from Dane Ortlund for each Psalm.
I’ve never celebrated Lent. It always kind of seemed like a Catholic thing. But as I sit here thinking about Lent, my mind is taken back to Advent. A few years ago, I had never celebrated Advent, but now it is a season that serves to make Christmas much more meaningful for me. One of my favorite Advent devotions is called Love Came Down at Christmas by Sinclair Ferguson. Dr. Ferguson has a way of writing and speaking that makes Christ grand. He has now written a devotional for the season of Lent called To Seek and To Save: Daily Reflections on the Road to the Cross.
Growing up, I never really knew what Advent was apart from all the fun calendars you could open, but as I got older and learned the meaning of Advent and started participating in it with my own family, it has become really meaningful to me. Advent means “coming” and we take all 24 days leading to Christmas day to intentionally focus on the coming Christ as a baby. I’ve found this intentional focus helps me keep the true meaning of Christmas at the forefront of the season and it increases my joy in Christ…
After reaching adulthood, we lose those parental constraints. We begin to have free reign of our lives, meaning we can do what we want when want where we want. If we want to blow all of our money, we can. If we want to eat until we feel sick, we can. Our only real limitations are those imposed by our job, credit score, and health. Otherwise, we are our own master.
There are specific points in my life that I can point you to where I don't know what I would have done without Christian community. The regular routine of doing life with other likeminded believers has profoundly changed and shaped my life. Moving to a city where I knew no one, losing my first child, and having my first child are all huge times in my life where I've had the joy of people being the hands and feet of Jesus to me.
Life is hard. I’ve heard several things people are going through in the past several days and all I can think is that life is hard. Difficult, painful, and tragic things happen to all of us. If they have not happened yet, they surely will. Some of them are self-induced. Other things we will fall victim to. Either way, we will encounter hard things.
