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Happy New Year
My new year will be happy because this is true:
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
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Pilgrim's Progress Musical: Pilgrim is a modern musical adaptation of John Bunyan's classic work, Pilgrim's Progress. It was performed in spring 2009 by the high school students at my church. They did a great job. The script is by theatre professionals (and members of our church) Janice Mays and Cathy Mays. The music is by various artists, including Bob Kauflin, Zach Jones and Mark Altrogge. You can order a DVD of the production here.
Give Me An Answer Highschool Conference: I'm looking forward to joining Al Mohler, Russell Moore, Shane & Shane and hip-hop artist Flame at the SBTS conference for highschool students next spring. Details.
Stephen Altrogge Reviews Dug Down Deep: Over at the Blazing Center blog they've posted a very generous review of the book. Read it.
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Comments (4)
AMEN!
Posted by Angela | December 31, 2008 3:18 PM
AMEN! I needed to be reminded of that tonight!
Posted by Anonymous | December 31, 2008 7:39 PM
Thank you, Josh! Happy new year!
Posted by Jordan | December 31, 2008 8:26 PM
Hello Josh,
I felt led to write you this evening. My response? "What in the world would I say!?" Thankfully when God tells us to do something He also gives us what we need. He gave me these verses. I actually think they are quite fitting for a New Years resolution.
Psalm 101
I will sing of your love and justice;
to you, O LORD, I will sing praise.
I will be careful to lead a blameless life--
when will you come to me?
I will walk in my house
with blameless heart.
I will set before my eyes
no vile thing.
The deeds of faithless men I hate;
they will not cling to me.
Men of perverse heart shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with evil.
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret,
him will I put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
him will I not endure.
My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
he whose walk is blameless
will minister to me.
No one who practices deceit
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.
Every morning I will put to silence
all the wicked in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer
from the city of the LORD.
The last part of it I thought sounded a bit harsh at first -- putting to silence all the wicked in the land, cutting off every evildoer from the city of the LORD? But then I realized due to something I had been reading by Alan Keyes that that is exactly what we need to do.
We need to put to silence the wickedness being "shouted out" across our land through politics, films, music, etc. The "city" -- America -- is wide open for evildoers to do what they do. As Christians, we need to in the spiritual sense take up arms, bar the gates, and reclaim the land that has become overrun by evil. We need to make this a righteous nation once again -- and not tolerate anything that compromises it. In love, yes -- filled with the very Love Jesus showed us when He laid down His Life to speak the Truth and bring forth God's Kingdom on this earth.
This New Year belongs to God!
Posted by Nicole T. | January 1, 2009 1:50 AM