2012 at 10:44 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
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Sovereign Grace Kids (of Louisville)
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2012 at 10:03 pm | by Nicole Whitacre
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We are very excited here at girltalk because this Sunday, September 30, is our first public meeting as Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville. God has blessed us with an amazing group of people for this church plant—many of whom are life-long friends. We can’t wait for Sunday morning when we will gather together to worship the Savior and hear Dad preach God’s Word.
You can check out our lovely new church website and read an interview with Dad about the church plant.
We’d love your prayers that Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville would faithfully proclaim the gospel in our community.
2012 at 8:07 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
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You are looking at one successful date night.
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2012 at 1:46 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
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Here is a yummy pumpkin recipe for fall, and a poem to go with it:
Colonial Pumpkin Bars
3/4 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 (16 oz.) can pumpkin
4 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup pecans, chopped
Cream butter and sugar together. Blend in pumpkin and eggs. Mix remaining ingredients together and add to creamed mixture. Spread in a greased 10"x15” pan, or (for a cake) in a 9"x13” pan. Bake at 350* for 25-35 minutes, depending on the size of the pan. When cooled spread with Cream Cheese Frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 lbs. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Blend cream cheese and butter well. Gradually add powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Add vanilla and blend well.
Roxie Kelley and Friends, Just a Matter of Thyme, (Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Pub., 1998), 115
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Come ye thankful people come,
Raise the song of harvest home!
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God’s own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.
All the world is God’s own field
Fruit unto his praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown
Unto joy or sorrow grown;
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of the harvest! grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.
God shall come,
And shall take his harvest home;
From his field shall in that day
All offenses purge away,
Give his angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.
Even so, Lord, quickly come,
Bring thy final harvest home;
Gather thou thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin,
There, forever purified,
in thy presence to abide;
Come, with all thine angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest home.
Words: Henry Alford, Music: George J. Elvey
2012 at 7:28 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
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2012 at 5:00 pm | by Nicole Whitacre
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“f you are in company, let your time be spent in that conversation that profiteth: let it not be about your dressing, your plays, your profits, or your worldly concerns, but let it be the wonders of redeeming love. O tell, tell to each other what great things the Lord has done for your souls; declare unto one another how you were delivered from the hands of your common enemy, Satan, and how the Lord has brought your feet from the clay and has set them upon the rock of ages, the Lord Jesus Christ; there, my brethren, is no slipping. Other conversation, by often repeating, you become fully acquainted with, but of Christ there is always something new to raise your thoughts; you can never want when the love of the Lord Jesus Christ is the subject. So let Jesus be the subject, my brethren, of all your conversation.” George Whitfield in O Come Thou Long Expected Jesus p 13
2012 at 12:12 am | by Janelle Bradshaw
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2012 at 4:39 pm | by Nicole Whitacre
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How do we find rest for our restless souls? True rest is not found in an afternoon at the spa, or by curling up in front of the TV, or from an hour of browsing Pinterest or Twitter.
Our Lord shows us the way to rest in Jeremiah 6:16:
“Thus says the Lord: ‘Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” (emphasis mine)
Derek Kidner comments:
As for the compassionate offer of rest for your souls, it is brushed aside—for as sinners we do not take kindly either to God’s diagnosis of our restless state or to his remedy for it. That remedy…, both here and in our Lord’s quotation of the last line (Mt. 11:29), is no rest-cure but a redirection: the blessed relief of stepping out along the right way. Jesus interprets this in personal terms of walking with him as his working partners (‘my yoke upon you’) and his pupils (‘learn from me’). ~The Message of Jeremiah, p. 46, emphasis mine
Relief comes when we take a step of repentance for our laziness or craving of other’s approval that leads us to seek satisfaction for our souls online. It comes when we trust in the forgiveness that comes only through the atoning death of Jesus Christ.
We find true rest when we fulfill our God-assigned good works, by the grace of God, in a God-honoring manner: bending to the privilege of becoming God’s working partner, His student.
So what good and ancient road of obedience do you need to take a step down today?
Walk and experience blessed relief.
2012 at 3:38 pm | by Nicole Whitacre
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When Is It OK to Ask a Woman If She’s Pregnant?
It’s a tricky question, but this chart provides a good rule of thumb.
HT: Kevin DeYoung
2012 at 2:09 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
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Happy birthday to the greatest dad ever! Love, Big Bee, Little Bee, and Wee Bee.
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2012 at 10:08 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
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2012 at 7:27 pm | by Carolyn Mahaney
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“Those who have received the gospel, are to live according to the gospel…. If we are idle, the devil and a corrupt heart will soon find us somewhat to do. The mind of man is a busy thing; if it is not employed in doing good, it will be doing evil. It is an excellent, but rare union, to be active in our own business, yet quiet as to other people’s.” ~Matthew Henry
As we’ve seen, idleness and a corrupt heart are a bad combination. They lead to all kinds of dangerous, gospel belying behavior. A better two-some, as Matthew Henry suggests, is to be “active in our own business, yet quiet as to other people’s” Busy at work, not busybodies (2 Thess. 3:11). This is the twin-goal we must keep before us when using social media.
How we use social media matters because of the gospel. “Those who have received the gospel, are to live according to the gospel”—on Twitter, Facebook, and everywhere we go online. We must never forget that we have been cleansed from former sins (2 Pet. 1:9). We must always remember that we have been called out of darkness into his marvelous light (1 Pet. 2:9).
We must tweet and message, post and comment, according to the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2012 at 12:33 am | by Janelle Bradshaw
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I could have sworn it was clean when I went to sleep last night…
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2012 at 12:47 pm | by Nicole Whitacre
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What does it look like to be busy with our own business? We find the answer in the verses immediately preceding 1 Timothy 5:13. Instead of meddling, we are to be devoted to every good work. Here’s a post that Janelle wrote a on these verses a few years ago:
“Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.”
This verse explains which widows are eligible to receive help and care from the church if they have no other means of support. But its application is for all of us, because it is a description of the life and character of a godly woman. I want you to take a look at the final phrase—“has devoted herself to every good work”—At first glance, it may appear to be a little vague. Kinda like what happens when I can’t come up with a concluding sentence for one of my posts, so I just tack on something nice-sounding but essentially meaningless.
Not the case here! There is nothing vague about this concluding remark. Paul is making a very clear point. In case we got the idea that we could check off one of each of these good works and qualify as a godly woman, Paul raises the stakes considerably. He says the godly woman is devoted to good works. As one commentary describes it, she is “energetically and diligently giving herself” to this stuff. I can imagine this woman constantly looking and listening, ready to serve upon discovery of the slightest need.
Do you remember the t-shirt that was popular a few years back with the slogan that read, “Tennis (or Basketball or Fishing) is Life. Everything else is just details”? Well, here Paul is saying that the godly woman’s outlook is: “Devotion to Good Works is Life. Everything else is just details.”
Bringing up children, showing hospitality, caring for the afflicted—these aren’t things the godly woman does one time, like a community service requirement. Good works are what she is giving her life, energy, time, and heart to. Good works are what she is all about.
But there is one other word that makes this phrase even more powerful. Yep, it’s that little word “every.” “Every” quite simply means “every.” It doesn’t mean “some” or “most,” but every. The godly woman doesn’t limit herself to good works that are easy, or get her the most attention, or are her top favorites. She practices good works of all kinds. And we can safely assume that they aren’t all pleasant.
Not such a vague phrase after all, huh?
I think John Wesley’s well-known quote expands nicely on what Paul is saying here:
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can.”
Cause everything else? It’s just details.
(You can download a PDF of our entire “Good Works” series)
2012 at 8:21 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
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Um, so my 22-month-old son actually hid his chicken in his empty raisin box. Should I laugh or cry?
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