Apr 3
2024
44 Questions for Heart and Life
Applying the Bible to our hearts is not always easy. Hopefully these questions help you think more in depth about your heart and life.
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Creation: What Can Be Known is Plain
Creation actually sealed our culpability from the beginning. Because God has created the world, we are without excuse for knowing Him. Thus Genesis 1 marks the moment all mankind became accountable to God.
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Let There Be Light: Creation and Conversion
The creation of light is a picture of conversion. There are so many ways in when Genesis 1-3 shows up in the Bible. Here is one!
Keep ReadingSocial Media: A Clear and Present Danger
The facts are coming in fast: social media is harmful. It is not neutral as we first perceived (or experienced). Having heard much more in recents months than I could compile here, I wanted to pass this on to our church. Consider social media in your home carefully!
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Meditations on The Creation of Woman: She Owes Her Existence to God Alone
This blog includes a few mediations by Herman Bavinck on the creation of woman. Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) was professor of Theology at Free University in Amsterdam. His book "Wonderful Works of God" is a succinct, easy to read condensed version of his systematic theology. It reads devotionally and is a wonderful guide for meditation on God.
Keep ReadingFar Too Easily Pleased: Getting Our Hearts Crucified to the World
Their daily work is to get their hearts crucified to the world and the things of it, and the world to their hearts; that they may not have living affections to dying things. J. Owen
Keep ReadingYou Need Strength, God Gives Grace
We encounter all sorts of calamities and challenges. How can we make it through?
Keep ReadingMar 27
2024
Creation: What Can Be Known is Plain
Creation actually sealed our culpability from the beginning. Because God has created the world, we are without excuse for knowing Him. Thus Genesis 1 marks the moment all mankind became accountable to God.
Mar 20
2024
Let There Be Light: Creation and Conversion
The creation of light is a picture of conversion. There are so many ways in when Genesis 1-3 shows up in the Bible. Here is one!
Aug 29
2023
Strengthened by Grace
We all know what physical weakness means. We can lose or gain spiritual strength as well. Where do we get strength from spiritually?
Apr 25
2023
Back Row Baptists?
Does meditation lead to blessedness?
Mar 27
2018
Finding Friends in Church Members
I’m a guy who needs about two and half good, serious friendships, and my wife takes up two of those spots. My remaining spot for a half friend may not live close. We may talk once every 6 months. I’m okay with that.
Jul 25
2017
Satan Has Raged Against Me
At one point Martin Luther said of himself, “Satan has raged against me with incredible contriving to destroy or hinder me, so that I have often wondered whether I was the only man in the whole world whom he was seeking".
Mar 24
2016
Community With Fellow Galileans
What is the connection that drew you to your church? Was it that there were other moms with kids? Other empty nesters? Other people of the same race? Maybe someone else there is from the same hometown and that connection made you feel at home. In Peter's denials we see that commonality doesn't produce faithful community.
Nov 26
2015
Thanks for All Things
Form the lighthearted to the gospel-empowered, here are some things Milwood is thankful for.