Pulse April 8, 2024
Sermon: Got a bit of a smorgasbord for you this week. Every year John MacArthur hosts a huge pastor’s conference, and this year’s media recently posted. The theme was “Triumph through Truth,” and I’m looking forward to plowing through all of them. Here’s John Piper’s sermon from that conference entitled Triumph through Providence.
A couple weeks ago we worked through Religious Liberty in Sunday School and touched on the place the Baptists had in developing that idea. W.A. Criswell was a famous Southern Baptist preacher of a half century ago, and in 1964 he delivered a sermon on some of that history entitled Baptists and the American Constitution. This isn’t the easiest to listen to – he’s clearly southern, he’s proudly Baptist, and he doesn’t talk like we’re used to. But if you hang in there, I think you’ll find it’s worth it.
Finally, for the young & young at heart, here’s a story I listened to a million times when I was a kid – and it turns out Michele did too. We listened to it again on the way to the Kingery concert Saturday night and it’s still awesome. Enjoy the story of Gregory the Grub
Catechism: Since no one can keep the law, what is its purpose?
Songs from Clark: This beloved psalm 42 houses the origin of our son Hart’s name. The KJV uses the old English word “hart” for deer. As a [hart] pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. Here is a survey of songs “downstream“ from the original: