Should a Christian Own a Lake House?

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Matt Heerema
Published: November 4, 2009Posted in: Books
Should a Christian Own a Lake House?

I have had the book Desiring God by John Piper on my shelf for 6 years. I bought it for Nancy as a birthday gift 10 years ago when I barely knew Christ. It seemed like the thing to do at the time. I have picked it up to read it about three times over the last decade and never got very far.

This last week ChristianAudio announced that they were giving away the audiobook for free for the month of November. Get it get it get it! You can also read it online for free.

I have just finished listening to it. Oh my is it a gold mine. This particular piece nailed me to the floor. From chapter 7:

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Old Testament Faith

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Matt Heerema
Published: October 28, 2009Posted in: Meditations

We know that even in the Old Testament, people were justified before God by their faith, not adherence to the Law. (Though, those in the OT days who had faith desired to keep God’s law!)

I get asked occasionally, “What did faith look like in the Old Testament? If they didn’t have Christ, what did God want them to have faith in?”

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Where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

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Matt Heerema
Published: October 21, 2009Posted in: Meditations, features
Where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

Yesterday, during the midst of announcement of all the shiny new Apple computers, a quote slid across my desk (via Twitter) that stopped me dead in my tracks. Tim Challies posted a quote from Tim Keller, and I don’t think the timing was accidental.

“Your money flows most effortlessly toward your heart’s greatest love.”

It is (I believe) a beautiful mediation on Matthew 6:21.

“…where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

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Packer on God’s Purposes in Our Troubles

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Matt Heerema
Published: October 16, 2009Posted in: Articles worth a read

Justin Taylor posts an excerpt from Packer’s “Knowing God” on God’s Purposes in Our Troubles

“Simply that God in his wisdom means to make something of us which we have not attained yet, and he is dealing with us accordingly”

Packer explains more carefully, and Justin comments. Read on.

As of First Importance

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Matt Heerema
Published: October 16, 2009Posted in: Meditations, features
As of First Importance

Paul’s statement from 1 Corinthians 15 amazes me every time.

1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (emphasis mine)

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

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