Just a Hodge-Podge of things I thought I’d share.  Spurgeon said he would take every text and run to Jesus. Here are 3 practical questions to ask yourself in preaching the Gospel from all of scripture. Check it out! Dr.Stephen Jones was featured in the August Greenville Journal. Spending time building the core of your marriage. 7 Things pastors should never...

Yesterday Jamie and I celebrated our 8th anniversary. Without trying to “win brownie points” or over sappy I can honestly say that this has been the best 8 years of my life and that I love Jamie more today than I did 8 years ago. It is an amazing privilege and responsibility to, by God’s grace, be in a relationship that pictures covenant love of...

Within the last year or so I read John Piper’s This Momentary Marriage. As I mentioned in a previous post, this has become one of my favorite books on marriage since it deals with the foundational issue of the ultimate purpose of marriage being to picture Christ’s relationship with the Church. The theme of this book and Piper’s associated sermons...

I loved this article, Why Men Need Marriage, by Mark Driscoll. I thought it captured the heart of the biblical idea for responsibility in manhood. I especially liked this statement, Men are like trucks: they drive straighter with a weighted load. Man up, a take responsibility! I haven’t read Driscoll’s book Real Marriage yet, but I’m planning to...