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ESV Study Bible
0 CommentsHere’s a video introducing the new ESV Study Bible. It features my friend Tullian Tchividjian, and I make a brief appearance to gush about the Bible. Take a minute to watch it. I hope that it will motivate you to get a copy when it’s released. As I share in the video, I would like to see every family in Covenant Life get a copy of this wonderful tool.
August 28 2008 at 4:36 pm
Resources on Suffering
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This past Sunday, in preaching his message, “Don’t Waste Your Suffering,” Jon Smith quoted from a couple of books we wanted to recommend.
The first, John Piper’s The Hidden Smile of God
Jon also highly recommends Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
Both books are in the Covenant Life bookstore.
August 21 2008 at 1:27 pm
Writing and J.I. Packer on Scripture
1 CommentsYesterday I spent the day at the Worthy 08 Youth Retreat and had a great time. What incredible, godly, fun high school students we have in this church! Dave Brewer and his team are doing such a good job leading families with teens.
I’m continuing to plug away at my book writing project. I’d appreciate your prayers. This week I’m working on a chapter on God’s word. I came across this quote from J.I. Packer’s book Concise Theology and share it here for your encouragement:
What Scripture says, God says; for, in a manner comparable only to the deeper mystery of the Incarnation, the Bible is both fully human and fully divine. So all its manifold contents—histories, prophecies, poems, songs, wisdom writings, sermons, statistics, letters, and whatever else—should be received as from God, and all that Bible writers teach should be revered as God’s authoritative instruction. Christians should be grateful to God for the gift of his written Word, and conscientious in basing their faith and life entirely and exclusively upon it. Otherwise, we cannot ever honor or please him as he calls us to do.
Amen! Let’s base our lives “entirely and exclusively” on God’s authoritative instruction given to us in Scripture.
August 12 2008 at 5:16 pm
Ambition: A Guide to Action
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“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”
—1 Peter 4:10
On Sunday, after Dave Harvey’s Message on godly ambition, we handed out “action guides,” listing areas of service in our church into which Covenant Life members can be channeling our ambitions and gifts, stewarding them well in the church and community.
The brochure explains: “Here, you’ll find dozens of ways you are needed in the church and community. The opportunities are color-coded according to various types of gifts and skills to help you quickly identify the ones that are most likely to suit you.” So, if you didn’t get one on Sunday, you can download the below PDF and get to work.
For more information on a given ministry, or to get involved in serving, email the LINK team: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Download the Ambition Action Guide (PDF).
August 8 2008 at 12:09 pm
Sunday: God’s Love and “Don’t Waste Your Ambition”
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On Sunday Bob Kauflin will be leading us as we worship God in song, focusing on the Lord’s constant, steadfast and good love, expressed in his giving his life for us. We will be learning a new song, “The Lord Is,” from the recently released Psalms CD, as well as singing “God Over All,” “Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” and “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us.” In the midst of this time of worship, we will partake of the Lord’s Supper.
Also, Dave Harvey will be preaching a message titled “Don’t Waste Your Ambition.” Dave serves on the Sovereign Grace Leadership Team, and has served as the senior pastor of Covenant Fellowship Church near Philadelphia for the last 19 years, culminating this October when he plans to pass on the role of senior pastor to Jared Mellinger.
August 5 2008 at 1:08 pm
Two Quotes on God and Work
0 CommentsHere are two quotes from Mark Mitchell’s sermon “Don’t Waste Your Job.” Both books that the quotes are drawn from are available in the bookstore. If you’d like to study a biblical perspective of work and vocation, both books are recommended.
This is the reason man should work today—not merely to make a living, not to gain luxuries, not to ‘succeed’ in the eyes of the world—but because it is God’s plan for man to subjugate the earth…. Such an interpretation of daily work enables us to realize that our contribution, however small it may appear, fits into God’s pattern for developing the world… All honorable work, no matter how insignificant before men, offers some opportunity to subdue this earth to God’s will.
—Wade Boggs, quoted in Redeeming the Time by Leland Ryken, page 175.
The Reformation notion of ‘the priesthood of all believers’ by no means denigrated the pastoral office, as is often assumed… Rather, it taught that the pastoral office is a vocation, a calling from God with its own responsibilities, authority, and blessings. But it also taught that laypeople as well have vocations, callings of their own that entail holy responsibilities, authorities, and blessings of their own.
All believers, like the priests of the Old Testament, can come into the presence of God through the blood of the Lamb. All believers can handle holy things (such as the Bible, earlier denied to the laity). All can proclaim the Gospel to those who need its saving message. ‘The priesthood of all believers’ means that all Christians enjoy the same access to Christ and are spiritually equal before Him. ‘The priesthood of all believers’ did not make everyone into church workers; rather, it turned every kind of work into a sacred calling… Every kind of work, including what had heretofore been looked down upon—the work of peasants and craftsmen—is an occasion for priesthood, for exercising a holy service to God and to one’s neighbor.”
—Gene Edward Veith, God At Work, page 18-19.