Robert, Restless and Always Reforming

I have read a number of the installments in the The Ancient Practices series this past year. Here I just finished reading Sabbath: The Ancient Practices written by Dan Allender. Remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy is one of the Ten Commandments given in the Old Testament. What does it really mean to keep [...]

Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing written by pastor C.J. Mahaney, who leads the leadership team of Sovereign Grace Ministries. This book helps the Christian dwell on what is most important, a life centered on the cross. We thank God for the cross His and ours. Mahaney sums his thesis [...]

Here is an excerpt from writings of A.W. Pink on the Sovereignty of God.  “What do we mean by [the sovereignty of God]? We mean the supremacy of God, the kingship of God, the god-hood of God. To say that God is Sovereign is to declare that God is God. To say that God is [...]

The Sovereignty of God by A.W. Pink, when first published in 1918 was a very controversial book as it still is today. The reason for this is probably due to the fact that in Pink’s day the doctrine of God’s sovereignty was almost completely ignored, misunderstood or rejected. Why read a book on the doctrine [...]

Peace Child written by Don Richardson (born 1935) who is a Canadian Christian missionary, who worked among the tribal people of Western New Guinea, Indonesia. He demonstrates in his writings how, hidden among tribal cultures, there are usually some practices or understandings, that he calls “redemptive analogies“, which can be used to illustrate the meaning [...]

This week I had the honour of speaking at a True Love Waits (TLW) rally invited by one of my youth Viri Olvera who is a studen and president of the Agape Club a christian club at South Grand Prairie High School. As I looked in the entire TLW movement I saw its core values [...]

This week the Associated Press story about Matt Chandler pastor of The Village Church is the featured article on MSNBC.com. Chandler’s cancer has led to the gospel being proclaimed in the news on MSNBC. He says a number of things in the article that bring Glory to God who never surprised, sovereign, and loves Matt. Keep [...]

I have always been an avid reader of the famed author and pastor-teacher Henry Blackaby since I first read his book “Experiening God”. Since then I have enjoyed listening and reading from the works of his sons Mel, Richard, Tom who are in full time ministry and part of Blackaby Ministries International.   In this short [...]