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Last Sunday Tad had the opportunity to preach since our pastor’s wife just had a new baby. His message was titled “Radical Christianity” and it was from Philippians 3.
To listen, go to our church’s website here and click on the media tab at the top. His sermon is the most recent one, so it should start playing automatically. If not, click on the title and it should start.
Five Rules of Contentment (written by a Puritan)
1. Allow yourself to complain of nothing – not even the weather.
2. Never picture yourself to yourself – under any circumstances in which you are not.
3. Never compare your own lot with that of another.
4. Never allow yourself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were, otherwise that is was, or is. God Almighty loves you better and more wisely than you do yourself.
5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God’s, not yours. The heaviest part of sorrow is often to look forward to it. The Lord will provide.
I needed to be reminded of this today! Thought you might enjoy it as well.
“God doesn’t just give us grace, He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.”
– Anne Graham Lotz
“There is no greater recommendation to the truth and power of the Christian faith than a Christian husband and wife, a Christian marriage, and a Christian home.”
– Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“I believe in the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that if God had not chosen me, I should have never chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“A Christian woman does not put her hope in her husband, or in getting a husband. She does not put her hope in her looks. She puts her hope in the promises of God…She looks away from the troubles and miseries and obstacles of life that seem to make the future bleak, and she focuses her attention on the sovereign power and love of God who rules in heaven and does on earth whatever He pleases. She knows her Bible, and she knows her theology of the sovereignty of God, and she knows His promise that He will be with her and help to strengthen her no matter what. This is the deep, unshakeable root of Christian womanhood.”
– John Piper
