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Critical Judgments vs Charitable Judgments - Justin Taylor - 0 views

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Judgmentalism

shared by David Murray on 21 Sep 09 - Cached
  • David Murray on 21 Sep 09
     
    Judgmentalism
David Murray

Eternal Perspectives (Randy Alcorn's blog): Counting the Cost of Sexual Immorality - 0 views

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Ministry Immorality

shared by David Murray on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Grieving my Lord; displeasing the One whose opinion most matters.Dragging into the mud Christ's sacred reputation.Loss of reward and commendation from God.Having to one day look Jesus in the face at the judgment seat and give an account of why I did it. Forcing God to discipline me in various ways. Following in the footsteps of men I know of whose immorality forfeited their ministry and caused me to shudder. List of these names: Suffering of innocent people around me who would get hit by my shrapnel (a la Achan).Untold hurt to Nanci, my best friend and loyal wife. Loss of Nanci's respect and trust.Hurt to and loss of credibility with my beloved daughters, Karina and Angela. ("Why listen to a man who betrayed Mom and us?")If my blindness should continue or my family be unable to forgive, I could lose my wife and my children forever.Shame to my family. (The cruel comments of others who would invariably find out.) Shame to my church family.Shame and hurt to my fellow pastors and elders. List of names: Shame and hurt to my friends, and especially those I've led to Christ and discipled. List of names: Guilt awfully hard to shake—even though God would forgive me, would I forgive myself?Plaguing memories and flashbacks that could taint future intimacy with my wife. Disqualifying myself after having preached to others. Surrender of the things I am called to and love to do—teach and preach and write and minister to others. Forfeiting forever certain opportunities to serve God. Years of training and experience in ministry wasted for a long period of time, maybe permanently. Being haunted by my sin as I look in the eyes of others, and having it all dredged up again wherever I go and whatever I do. Undermining the hard work and prayers of others by saying to our community "this is a hypocrite—who can take seriously anything he and his church have said and done?"Laughter, rejoicing and blasphemous smugness by those who disrespect God and the church (2 Samuel 12:14). Bringing great pleasure to Satan, the Enemy of God. Heaping judgment and endless problems on the person I would have committed adultery with. Possible diseases (pain, constant reminder to me and my wife, possible infection of Nanci, or in the case of AIDS, even causing her death, as well as mine.) Possible pregnancy, with its personal and financial implications. Loss of self-respect, discrediting my own name, and invoking shame and lifelong embarrassment upon myself.
  • David Murray on 05 Oct 09
     
    Counting the cost of sexual immorality
Timothy Bergsma

1. Accountability: The Mark of a Wise and Protected Leader - 0 views

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counseling accountability

shared by Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Teach people to live out the gospel in all of their relationships
  • Teach people to shun gossip and slander, especially against leaders
  • Repeatedly commend the habit of making "charitable judgments.
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  • Encourage people to distinguish between style and substance
  • Train all of your people, and especially your leaders, how to respond to conflict biblically
  • Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09
     
    Accountability:The Mark of a Wise and Protected Leader
  • Timothy Bergsma on 17 Sep 09
     
    This is the 1st of 2 articles I found that address some comments in our Moodle Question for this week (Sept. 19/09) on "Maintaining Moral Purity" 1. Accountability 2. Approachability
David Murray

William Ames on Singing Imprecatory Psalms | Meet The Puritans - 0 views

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Imprecatory Psalms Ames

shared by David Murray on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • 8. A. 1. We may upon occasion of those imprecations meditate with fear and trembling, on the terrible judgments of God against the sins of impenitent persons. 9. 2. We may thereupon profit in patience and consolation, against the temptations which are wont to [habitually] arise from the prosperity of the wicked, and affliction of the godly. 10. 3. We may also pray to God that he would hasten his revenge (not against our private enemies but) against the wicked and incurable enemies of his Church.
  • David Murray on 12 Sep 09
     
    Imprecatory Psalms
David Murray

Lloyd-Jones on Seriousness in the Pulpit - The Gospel Coalition Blog - 0 views

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Ministry Humor

shared by David Murray on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial….What is happing [in the act of preaching] is that he is speaking to them from God, he is speaking to them about God, he is speaking about their condition, the state of their souls. He is telling them that they are, by nature, under the wrath of God–”the children of wrath even as others”–that the character of the life they’re living is offensive to God and under the judgment of God, and warning them of the dread eternal possibility that lies ahead of them. In any case the preacher, of all men, should realize the fleeting nature of life in this world. The men of the world are so immersed in its business and affairs, its pleasures and all is vain show, that the one thing they never stop to consider is the fleeting nature of life. All this means that the preacher should create and convey the impression of the seriousness of what is happening the moment he even appears in the pulpit. You remember the famous lines of Richard Baxter: “I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.”…You remember what was said of the saintly Robert Murray McCheyne of Scotland in the last century. It is said that when he appeared in the pulpit, even before he had uttered a single word, people would begin to weep silently. Why? Because of this very element of seriousness. The very sight of the man gave the impression that he had come from the presence of God and that he was to deliver a message from God to them. That is what had such an effect upon the people even before he had opened his mouth. We forget this at our peril, and at great cost to our listeners.
  • David Murray on 27 Sep 09
     
    Humor in the Ministry
David Murray

How Could God Command Genocide in the Old Testament? - Justin Taylor - 0 views

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Theodicy Canaanites

shared by David Murray on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • 1. As the maker of all things and the ruler of all people, God has absolute rights of ownership over all people and places
  • 2. God is not only the ultimate maker, ruler, and owner, but he is just and righteous in all that he does.
  • 3. All of us deserve God’s justice; none of us deserve God’s mercy.
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  • 4. The Canaanites were enemies of God who deserved to be punished.
  • 5. God’s actions were not an example of ethnic cleansing.
  • 6. Why was it necessary to remove the Canaanites from the land?
  • 7. The destruction of the Canaanites is a picture of the final judgment.
  • David Murray on 26 Sep 09
     
    Theodicy and the Canaanites
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