by Bob | Feb 19, 2011 | Al Mohler, Barack Obama, Biblical Counseling Coalition, John Piper
Five to Live By Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living. You Have to Read This Al Mohler has a very sobering post about how “the Obama administration is now ready to use the coercive...
by Bob | Feb 18, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, Pastoral Ministry, Soul Physicians, Trinity
Modeling Our Ministry After the Trinity Before God created, what was He doing? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God” (John 1:1). Before God created; He related. In the Greek, the little preposition with signifies “before, in the presence of,...
by Bob | Feb 17, 2011 | Biblical Counseling, John Stott, Soul Physicians
Knowing God: The Holy Love of God “What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us” (A. W. Tozer). A vision of God’s holy love delivers us from caricatures of him, as John Stott reminds us. “We must picture him neither as an...
by Bob | Feb 16, 2011 | Absalom Jones, Beyond the Suffering, Black Church History, Black History Month, Richard Allen
Rev. Richard Allen: Founding the First Free Black Church Rev. Richard Allen was one of the foremost founding fathers of the African American independent churches. Born a slave in 1760, to Benjamin Crew of Philadelphia, Allen came to salvation in Christ around age...
by Bob | Feb 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Rev. Lemuel Haynes: The Black Puritan Lemuel Haynes offers a remarkable example of African American ministerial modeling. Born at West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1753, of a white mother and a black father, Haynes lived his entire eighty years in Congregationalist...
