As we approach the Thanksgiving season, I want to say how thankful I am for your prayers and support. Serving as a missionary in Ukraine has been much more difficult and challenging than I ever expected and it is a real blessing to know that we have people back home who are lifting us before the Lord as we serve here! Continue Reading »
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Having a Thankful Heart by Thomas Watson
‘Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name’ (Psalm 29:2).
Let us prove our godliness by gratefulness:
1. ‘It is a good thing to be thankful:‘It is good to sing praises unto our God’ (Psalm 147:1). It is bad when the tongue (that organ of praise) is out of tune and jars by murmuring and discontent. But it is a good thing to be thankful. It is good, because this is all the creature can do to lift up God’s name; and it is good because it tends to make us good. The more thankful we are, the more holy. While we pay this tribute of praise, our stock of grace increases. In other debts, the more we pay, the less we have; but the more we pay this debt of thankfulness, the more grace we have. Continue Reading »
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It has been truly said: “Right views concerning Christ are indispensable to a right faith, and a right faith is indispensable to salvation. To stumble at the foundation, is, concerning faith, to make shipwreck altogether; for as Immanuel, God with us, is the grand Object of faith, to err in views of His eternal Deity, or to err in views of His sacred humanity, is alike destructive. There are points of truth which are not fundamental, though erroneous views on any one point must lead to God-dishonoring consequences in strict proportion to its importance and magnitude; but there are certain foundation truths to err concerning which is to insure for the erroneous and the unbelieving, the blackness of darkness forever” (J. C. Philpot, 1859).
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I’m continuing to work on my Russian and I am making some progress. My understanding is greatly improving. Depending on the conversation, I usually understand most of what I hear (depending on the context and the speaker). That’s a big improvement. Speaking in Russian, however, is another story. I can carry on conversations, but only with a lot of hesitating and stopping to correct myself and trying again. Getting case endings right is really difficult. It seems like, the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know! Continue Reading »
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Those who will add to one part of God’s worship will be as ready to take away from another. “Laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men” (Mark 7:8). They who will bring in a tradition, will in time lay aside a command. This the Papists are very guilty of; they bring in altars and crucifixes, and lay aside the second commandment. They bring in oil in baptism, and leave out the cup in the Lord’s Supper. They bring in praying for the dead, and lay aside reading the Scriptures intelligibly to the living. Those who will introduce into God’s worship that which he has not commanded, will be as ready to blot out that which he has commanded.
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