We had a visiting preacher yesterday. The Rev Roger Fay from Zion Evangelical Baptist Church in Ripon, North Yorkshire. He preached in English and I translated it into French. His sermon, on Luke 23:39-43 is well worth listening to and is both in English and French so everyone can benefit. You can listen to it here.
Are we taking the gospel for granted? Assumed Evangelicalism
I think we do, and unless we make the conscious and deliberate step to go back to the gospel explicitly, we will soon be facing some problems (which are already appearing it seems. Read this article on the subject: Assumed evangelicalism, some reflections en route to denying the gospel. It had been sitting on my reading pile for a few years and I read it at last Saturday evening.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-11
- First football practice for Jean-Baptiste. Premier entrainement de foot pour Jean-Baptiste. #
- Pour ceux qui comme moi apprécient le rugby mais ont besoin d'être éduqués sur les subtilités du jeu http://t.co/aEoEhTo #
- Interesting link on the lifespan of a link shared on social medias http://t.co/tRNoex1 #
- Thanks to @challies for posting the following video on his blog http://t.co/mXnxxRi worth watching #
- C'est la rentrée, reprise du footing. 5km. Pas trop dur. #
- La rentrée went well. Maxime freaked out when the teacher said hello to him, but that was expected. #
- Back to school today. First time for Maxime in nursery, and Jean-Baptiste starts primary school (CP). #
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Guests
We had a lovely time on Friday evening with Naomi and her parents. Naomi will be working with the church this year. Her dad is a minister in North Yorkshire, he is also involved with Evangelical press in the UK. It was good to meet him and his wife. They are in Guingamp for the weekend and he will be preaching with us on Sunday.
In my seat
A moving testimony by a man who should have been piloting one of the planes of 9/11. Thanks to Tim Challies for pointing this video out. Look it up here if it doesn’t appear below.
We are not our own
“We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the flesh. We are not our own: in so far as we can, let us therefore forget ourselves and all that is ours.. Conversely, we are God’s: let us therefore live for him and die for him. We are God’s: let this wisdom and will therefore rule all our actions. We are God’s: let all the parts of our life accordingly strive toward him as our only lawful goal.”
John Calvin in “The Good News we almost Forgot” by Kevin DeYoung