Linked Together: The Thankful Thursday Edition

For the Small Things
Erik Raymond reminds us to “consider the little things,” like David did when he wrote Psalm 3:

I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me (Psalm 3:5).

When We Suffer
Mark Altrogge: 

One of the most important things we must do when we suffer is to give thanks.  I don’t say this lightly and I know many believers who have endured unimaginable pain and tragedy.  Giving thanks in the midst of agony and affliction is certainly not easy to do. 

To help us out, he’s listed 12 things we can give thanks for when we suffer.

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Here are a few things I’m thankful for this week:

• Health. I haven’t been sick (yet) this winter. Everyone around me has been sick, and some have been really sick, but I haven’t.
• Safety—safety as I drive, safety as I walk (It’s very icy out there!). For safety for my whole family this week. 
• Two ladies in my church who have taken on a really difficult job this week—one I don’t think I could do—out of Christian love. 
• My oldest son, who just had a birthday.
• That God has sustained me through the past 11 years.
• That God is in control of everything, including my life. 

This Week in Housekeeping

Here are four theological terms that I updated today.

liturgy

• Fixed the link to Christian Apologetics and Research Ministries’ What is liturgy?

London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689

• Removed a dead link.

Lord’s Supper

• Fixed the link to Blue Letter Bible’s What is the Lord’s Supper? 
• Fixed the link to William Smith’s The Significance of the Supper.
• Found a new source for Charles Hodge’s An Overview of the Lord’s Supper.
• Updated the link for Wayne Grudem’s The Lord’s Supper (mp3)

lordship salvation

• Fixed the link to non-lorship salvation. 

Theological Term of the Week

synoptic gospels
The first three gospels in the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—which are quite similar in their content, and all very different from John’s gospel.

• From scripture, the three accounts of the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law in the synoptic gospels:

And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. (Matthew 8:14-15 ESV)

And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. (Mark 1:29-31 ESV)

And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them. (Luke 4:38-39 ESV)

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