Archive for August, 2006
Aron Osborne
Genesis 19:1-22 - Lessons From The Life of Lingering Lot
Nothing quenches the power and work of the Holy Spirit in our lives like lingering in sin.
“The Holy Scriptures, which were written for our learning, contain beacons as well as patterns. They show us examples of what we should avoid, as well as what we should follow. The man whose name heads this page of Scripture is set for a beacon to the whole church of Christ. His character is put before us in one little word: He lingered. Let us sit down and look at this beacon for a few minutes. Let us consider Lot.” J.C. Ryle
“Remember this in choosing a husband or a wife, if you are unmarried. It is not enough that your eye is pleased, that your tastes are met, that your mind finds likeability and friendliness, that there is affection. There needs to be something more than this. There is a life yet to come. Think of your immortal soul. Will it be helped upwards or dragged downwards by the union you are planning? Will it be made more heavenly, or more earthly, drawn nearer to Christ, or to the world? Will your faith grow or will it decay? I pray you, as Baxter said, ‘Think and think and think again before you commit yourself.” J.C. Ryle
“There are those who cannot find it in their hearts to quarrel with their besetting sin, whether it be sloth, indolence, ill-temper, pride, selfishness, impatience or what it may. They allow it to remain a tolerably quiet and undisturbed tenant of their hearts. They say it is their health, or their constitutions, or their temperaments, or their trials, or their way. Their father, or mother, or grandmother, was so before themselves, and they are sure they cannot help it. But all may be summed up in one sentence. They linger.” J.C. Ryle
“Make a wrong choice in life, an unbiblical choice, and settle yourself down in the midst of worldly people, and I know no surer way to damage your own spirituality, and to go backward about your eternal concerns. This is the way to make the pulse of your soul beat feebly. This is the way to make the edge of your feeling about sin become blunt and dull. This is the way to dim the eyes of your spiritual discernment. This is the way to bring a moral palsy on your feet and limbs, and make you go tottering and trembling. This is the way to tie your arms in fighting, to fetter your legs in running, to dry up the sources of your strength and become a slave.” Paul Tripp
“The motto of your life must be, ‘Watch, watch, watch.’ For, mark you, you are sure to leave some leaven, and if you leave a little it will work and spread…you will tell me I am holding up a high standard. I am; but then you have a great Helper.” Charles Spurgeon
“I charge you, and exhort you, by all your hopes of heaven and desires of glory, if you would be happy, if you would be useful, do not be a lingering soul.” Charles Spurgeon
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” John Owen
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Aron Osborne
Acts 2:37-41 - Cut To The Heart
“The old-fashioned grace of repentance is not to be dispensed with; there must be sorrow for sin; there must be “a broken and a contrite heart. This, God will not despise; but a ‘conversion’ which does not produce this result, God will not accept as genuine.”
“When the truth pricks the hearers of it in the heart, the impression becomes operative. In the case before us, if you read the narrative, you will find that these men became earnest enquirers; they said the rest of the apostles, ‘Men and brethren,-what must we do?’”
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Mark Mullery
Hebrews 10:19-22 - Christ Our Access
Since we have Christ, let us go to heaven today!
“Objectively, what brings us into the presence of God is the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.” D.A. Carson
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This is the first installment of some of my favorite pictures from the retreat. These are in no particular order.
Click any of the pictures below for a larger image. Enjoy!
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I’m going to be posting quotes from the retreat sermons over the next few days. Here is the first installment. Enjoy!
Mark Mullery
Hebrews 1:1-4 - Consider Jesus
Jesus Christ is more excellent than you can imagine and God wants you to know it.
“Jesus Christ perfectly shows all that is knowable about the Father.” Donald Guthrie
“That the Son has been exalted to God’s right hand means that he lives and rules with the authority and power of God himself.” William Lane
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My highlights are too many to list. But a couple of them include:
- All the teaching was excellent; I don’t know how I could pick a favorite message. But hearing God’s Word preached was definitely the very best part of the retreat.
- Watching the display of humility each morning as y’all encouraged one another for God’s grace at work in each other’s lives.
- Pastors’ volleyball team record: 2-0.
- James O’Donnell saves the day! Thanks for the sound system, James!
- Hearing your excellent insights into Isaiah 40.
- 140 retreat registrants. 63 of them were parents. Wow!
- Looks like an M&M. Shaped like an M&M. Color like an M&M. Tastes like a paintball. Yuck.
- “Where My Peeps At?”
- Daniel, Aaron, and Melanie’s testimonies.
- Worshiping the Savior together.
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We’re back. What a wonderful retreat. What was your highlight? How did God meet you?
Stay tuned for message quotes and outlines, photo galleries, and more highlights…
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