Month: November 2010

  • Struggling with difficult doctrine

    A very close friend of mine is struggling to understand the doctrine of election.  She doesn’t have trouble believing that God elects people to salvation.  (She made it through that doctrine and is resting in the assurance of her salvation).  The problem comes upon realizing that if God chooses some to be saved, then that…

  • Believing God by R.C. Sproul, Jr.

    Believing God: Twelve Biblical Promises Christians Struggle to Accept is free on Amazon’s Kindle edition.  Get it now!

  • Thanks Giving Over the Weekend

    Friday night, a few friends and their children joined us at our house for some Bible study and fellowship. I’m so very thankful for these people. Saturday, Karl did all of the laundry.  Need I say more? Sunday, we survived a very busy day.  It wasn’t so much the running to-and-fro that threatened to undo…

  • Thankful for our homeschool community

    Today I am giving thanks for our home school community. These moms are a ready source of encouragement, advice, ideas, and camaraderie.  Not only that, but they always come through when I can’t find a particular book at the local bookstore.  More importantly, I know I can call on them for prayer.   They are…

  • Thanksgiving Day 11

    I am in the thick of Brian Hedges book, Christ Formed in You.  I’ve reached the second section of the book in which he teaches and encourages the believer to mortify her sin.  He writes, “Lots of us think we can tame sin, but like a tiger, sin turns and masters us at the first…