Johnathon Edwards was NINETEEN when he wrote his 70 resolutions to live by that would make grown men cry.
Hudson Taylor was 21 when he learned mandarin, studied deep theology, and medicine and moved to China to pioneer the gospel.
David Brainerd DIED at 29 and remains one of the top examples of missionaries of all time.
Charles Spurgeon, the prince of preachers, started preaching at 19 and died at 57.
MORAL OF THE STORY, STOP SENDING YOUR SONS TO BE BETA FRAT BROS. Raise men– Men who know the word of God and can do much work for His kingdom at much younger ages than we’ve been conditioned to believe here in the west.
As we age and near death, new fears emerge and grow. At seventy-seven, John Piper knows those fears and recently addressed nine of them with the promises of God.
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8 habits of highly effective people, by Stephen Covey: 🧵
1 be proactive
2 begin with end in mind
3 put first things first
4 think win-win
5 seek first to understand, then be understood
6 synergize
7 sharpen the saw
8 inner self growth and development
"Sitting is the new smoking."
Yup. If you sit more than 6 hours a day, you're destroying your body and ruining your health.
Here are 5 exercises to reverse the damages of sitting:
God's first words after the Fall were, "Where are you?"
It's only one word in Hebrew: אַיֶּכָּה (ayyekkah).
In that one word is compressed a whole theology:
-God seeks out the lost sinner.
-God welcomes him to confess.
-God desires his restoration.
-God works his redemption.
The Seven Biggest Mistakes You Can Make As a Worship Leader, Pt. 2.
We weren’t able to cover them all in the first podcast, so here are the last 4!
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Christ is altogether lovely in his person: he is Deity dwelling in flesh. The wonderful, perfect union of the divine and human nature in Christ renders him an object of admiration and adoration to both angels and men.
The Gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ, plus; how the benefits of that work can be appropriated to us by faith and by faith alone.
—R.C. Sproul