Friday Thoughts from Pastor Tim - April 25

Dear Church Family –

D.A. Carson has been, for many years, a trusted and respected New Testament commentator and professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.  He came to mind this week because he was one of the founders of the Christian conference I attended this week in Indianapolis.  He was lovingly mentioned and quoted several times during the conference.  I have appreciated D.A. Carson’s writings.  Here’s three of my favorite quotes from him.

“Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.”

“The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.”

“All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.”

This coming Sunday, Daren Busenitz, one of our church missionaries, will be speaking and leading our Sunday morning time in God’s Word.  We’re looking forward to honoring Christ together and seeking Him in His Word and among His people.

“I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 1may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19)

See you Sunday! – Pastor Tim