What Do You Want?

The Aquila Report published a convicting post that asks the average churchgoer what he wants when he walks through the door on Sunday. It begins:

A question for modern churchgoers: when your pastor steps to the pulpit, what are you hoping for? What is your honest desire that he do?


Are you really hoping to be fed a Word from the Lord?

Are you really desiring a text sharper than any two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12), penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, judging the thoughts and intentions of your heart?

Scripturally, the man God calls as pastor is to preach and teach the fullness of His Word. So the question becomes: is that what you really want?

Candidly, I don’t think most people do.

The essay explores what people do want and why and ends with some very hard-hitting applications. If you attend a church that actually values the preaching of God's Word, then pray for your minister as he stands before you today. Pray that he will faithfully exposit the Scriptures. Above all pray that everyone will obey the Word. But be careful! God just might answer your prayers.

Check the post out.

Back in Colorado and Getting Settled

Good morning, Gentle Reader.

I got back from Mississippi this week after a series of delays. Our moving truck showed up a day late and did not get us loaded until late last Saturday. We finally got on the road to Colorado about 6:30 PM but only made it as far as Memphis before we decided to stop for the night.

Sunday morning we left for Kansas City and arrived at my in-laws at supper time. We had a great visit with them for a couple of days and, after the obligatory stop at Famous Dave's, we headed for Colorado. We did stop along the way to take in some touristy sorts of things. Near Salina, Kansas we encountered an enormous windmill farm. I am not overly enamored with so-called green technology, but the farm was pretty cool and went for miles. We also detoured to see the Garden of Eden, a bizarre home in Lucas, KS.

After another seeming endless day of driving we arrived in Denver about 11 PM. The balance of the week was spent unloading and getting the kids enrolled in school. We just found out we get to close on our new home on Monday afternoon, so the craziness will continue for a few more days.

Hopefully, next week will permit me to get back to regular posting. There are a number of things I have been wanting to write about.

Friday Funnies (In the Lenten Spirit)!

The Joy of Linking

When you have nothing better to say yourself (or when you are writing a long post), link! I picked up that particular piece of wisdom when I first started blogging. Currently, I am writing a couple of lengthier posts that may take some time to finish. In the meantime, I would like to commend to my readers a creative and timely series of posts by Brian Carpenter over at The Happy TR. When the horrid book, The Shack, was released recently, it was compared to John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I scoffed, being fairly sure that the ones making the comparison had never read Bunyan. But I digress.

At any rate, in the spirit of Bunyan, Carpenter is writing a series of posts about the Federal Vision in allegorical format and told from the perspective of those who truly suffer under this abysmal theology, God's people.

You can read part one here, part two here, and part three here. Enjoy.

That We Also May be Like All the Nations

Steve Salyards over at GA Junkie has posted another thought-provoking article, this time on worship. He takes to task the worldliness of much so-called Christian worship, but does so in an unexpected way.

I don’t want to give the twist away, so just check it out.

New Blog Address

Jason Stellman, who always writes some intriguing posts, has moved his blog to a new site called Creed, Code, Cult. Check it out.

2/7/10 AM Sermon

The Sunday morning sermon on February 7 was on John 2:1-12 and was entitled, “Beholding the Glory of the King.” You can listen to it here. I hope it is a blessing to you.