There is no doubt growing up in high school in Kentucky in the 90s that I idolized Rick Pitino. He brought UK basketball to prominence and gave an up tempo style that made games ultra exciting to watch. McCarty, Delk, Mashburn, Anderson, Mercer not to mention the Unforgettables made Kentucky basketball an exciting topic year round. However much rumors swirled about his infidelities when he was the coach at UK they were always just that... rumors. I always said if JoAnn is sticking with him then… Continue

Charles Spurgeon said, if we think of what we've vowed to be and of what we have become, we may weep whole showers of grief. Are we living the life that we promised ourselves and God or are we wasting our gifts? Derek Webb's song "Wedding Dress" is an excellent critique of us all and our using of God for our selfish purposes . Do we just put God on whenever we think it is convenient and useful for us? Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

It's been far too long since anyone posted anything, so I thought I'd quote the 18th century missionary David Brainerd whose dedication to the Lord's service both convicts and inspires me. He wrote the following in his diary which I quote out of John Piper's book, The Hidden Smile of God.



"When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable, and my thirstings after holiness the more unquenchable... Oh, for His holiness! Oh, for more of God in my soul! Oh, this… Continue

For everyone who has read the posts in this series and the series on MacArthur and Driscoll I would commend the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery to you. It is written by several highly respected scholars, it was published long before the debate between Driscoll and MacArthur began, and I think it does well to explain the imagery found… Continue

A Charles Spurgeon quote to give you all food for thought:



The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher: otherwise men would be the converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher's learning; otherwise it would consist in the wisdom of men. We might preach until our tongues rotted, till we would exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless the Holy Spirit be with the Word of God to give it the power to covert the… Continue