This Week in Housekeeping

Here are the Theological Term posts that I updated this week:

salvation

• Added a link to Tim Challies’  The Essential: Salvation.

sola fide

• Added a link to John McArthur’s Jesus’ Perspective on Sola Fide.
• Added a link to Brian Schwertley’s Justification by Faith.
• Added a link to R. C. Sproul’s Sola Fide (audio).
• Added related terms five solas, justification, saving faith, sola gratia, sola scriptura, solus Christus, soli Deo gloria.
• Added Filed under Reformed Theology.

Expecting Trouble

It’s my day to post at Out of the Ordinary.

Jesus warned his disciples that in this world they would have trouble. Why would we expect it to be any different for us? Eventually, we’re all going to run into difficult circumstances and we may have to endure them for a long time. It’s the way it is for believers in this world.

Read all of You’re Gonna Need a Quality Shoe.

Thankful Thursday

It’s been another interrupted day for me. Two sets of unexpected visitors, for whom I am thankful.

I’m thankful for clear blue winter skies and fresh white snow. I’m thankful for increasing daylight and weather that’s not too cold. (It’s always a good day in the Yukon when half of North America is colder than we are.)

I’m thankful for dog walks in the woods in the winter sunshine. I’m thankful for this pleasant way to get the daily exercise I need.

I’m thankful for the seasons of the year and the seasons of life. 

I’m thankful for the intercession of the Holy Spirit when we don’t know what to pray for. I’m thankful that Jesus intercedes for us, too, and that through him we can come boldly to God’s throne.

I’m thankful that we are nearly through another January.