Saying No

by | Apr 30, 2007 | Time/Life Management

I don’t say “no” enough.  I say “yes” a whole lot to commitments and requests for meetings, etc.  Maybe this top 10 list will make me think more strategically. The Gentle Art of Saying No –...

3 Martyrs

by | Apr 30, 2007 | Christian Living, Miscellaneous

Read this account of 3 Christians recently martyred for their faith in Turkey.  Pray for God’s glory to be seen and valued as a result. Denny Burk » 3 Martyrs: Men of Whom the World Was Not...

The First Rule for Mortification of Sin

by | Apr 30, 2007 | Christian Living

Chapter 7 of John Owen’s Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers There will be no mortification unless a man be a believer. Unless a man be a believer – that is, one that is truly ingrafted into Christ – he can never mortify any one sin; I do not say, unless he know himself to be so, but unless indeed he be so (79). A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit (80). This is that I aim at: unless a man be regenerate, unless he be a believer, all attempts that he can make for mortification, be they never so specious and promising – all means he can use, let him follow them with never so much diligence, earnestness, watchfulness, and intention of mind and spirit – are to no purpose (81). Be sure to get an interest in Christ – if you intend to mortify any sin without, it will never be done...