We're Moving

My blog will be moving today, so this is officially my last post on blogger. Now all my blog posts will be at http://www.epm.org/blog/. With the blog on the Eternal Perspective Ministries website, the blogging process will be a lot smoother for me and reading and commenting more accessible and attractively presented for you.

Thank you to readers and followers of my blog. I hope you’ll come with me on the move to the new blog page, where you can subscribe to the new blog feed, make comments, and rate content.

It’s not just the blog that’s changing. The whole website has gotten an overhaul (thanks to 5Q Communications, who did a wonderful job). The newly designed, much improved site launches this morning. (The website may be temporarily unavailable during the transition).

And as for the new search engine—which I’ve been experimenting with—it’s enough to make a grown man cry. I no longer have to leave our site to use Google to find what’s on our site. I’m excited!

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Protecting Our Children in a Modern Corinth

I remember speaking at a Bible college as a visiting lecturer in the early 1980s. During one week of teaching, I had three different female students approach me and confess that they each were having an affair with a youth pastor or senior pastor in their church. It was like cold water thrown in my face. I think the Lord strategically brought those contacts into my life to help me realize I needed to address this issue.

Now that was in the 1980s, when we didn’t yet have the internet. We were in the very early days of renting videos. At that point, I started comparing our culture to ancient Corinth, where you could go out into the streets and supposedly find a thousand priestesses of Aphrodite—prostitutes who would throw themselves at men passing by. Today, with TVs, VCRs, DVDs, especially the internet, and now even cell phones, the immediacy and the amassing of pornography is greater than anything we could have imagined.

A couple weeks ago on a Saturday night, I spoke on the topic of sexual purity at my home church. The following clip from that message is one of the less popular statements I’ve made on this topic, but one that I believe is very important for parents to heed. The second clip is from the next Sunday and contains some follow up thoughts.











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Note from Eternal Persepective Ministries: Here are some resources for sexual purity including Randy's book The Purity Principle.

How We Overcome

Recently Of First Importance posted a citation from D. A. Carson, one of my favorite theologians and writers. If you’re not familiar with Carson, I highly recommend his works.

Contemplate these biblical and powerful words:

“How dare you approach the mercy-seat of God on the basis of what kind of day you had, as if that were the basis for our entrance into the presence of the sovereign and holy God? No wonder we cannot beat the Devil. This is works theology. It has nothing to do with grace and the exclusive sufficiency of Christ. Nothing.

Do you not understand that we overcome the accuser on the ground of the blood of Christ? Nothing more, nothing less. That is how we win. It is the only way we win. This is the only ground of our acceptance before God. If you drift far from the cross, you are done. You are defeated.

We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.”

—D.A. Carson, Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 103



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Book Recommendation: Rescuing Ambition by Dave Harvey

My friend Dave Harvey wrote a fine book on marriage called When Sinners Say “I Do”. His new book is called Rescuing Ambition. I love it. Interested in reading a portion of it, see these excerpts.

Here’s my endorsement, followed by a few others:

“Dave Harvey thinks well, writes well, tells good stories, and cites people of substance and insight. I have long appreciated Dave’s integrity, wisdom and perspective. Were I not afraid of feeding his ambition for greatness, or my ambition to write a memorable endorsement, I would add that Rescuing Ambition is biblical, honest, witty, and sometimes amusing. I’m happy to recommend this fine book on an important and overlooked subject.”
- Randy Alcorn, author, If God is Good and Heaven

“In Rescuing Ambition, Dave Harvey distinguishes ambition for the glory of God, which is good, from ambition for the glory of self, which is bad. But godly ambition doesn’t exist in a vacuum, so Harvey helps us see how it is intertwined with humility, contentment, faith, and above all, the gospel. Dave Harvey is both an experienced pastor and a gifted writer, so you will find this book not only profitable but also hard to put down.”
- Jerry Bridges, author , The Pursuit of Holiness

“Dave Harvey teaches us that God wants ambition back in our understanding of godliness and spiritual health. As Christians, we are to be zealous for good works (Titus 2:13)—that is, ambitious for them. We are to be people who dream and do big things for the glory of God and the good of others. Let’s not be content with small dreams cloaked in a guise of humility. This is a critical book for the church today because it helps us recover the spirit of William Carey, who ambitiously said ‘Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.’”
- Matt Perman, Director of Strategy, Desiring God Ministries

“Dave Harvey has delivered a compelling case for developing God-ward ambition in the lives of men and women alike. This insightful book carries a timely message in our ‘whatever’ culture: we all have ambition, but where it is aimed and how it is used is worth serious consideration. With self-effacing humor, Dave reveals how being wired for glory can either corrupt us or lead us to a divine agenda. Highly recommended!”
- Carolyn McCulley, author , Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World and Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred.




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Breakfast with a Golden Retriever

I grew up with a Golden Retriever, a great breed. When I was a boy, my golden, Champ, used to crawl in my sleeping bag when I spent the night in the back yard (watching the stars and reading comic books with a flashlight). Nanci and I love dogs. We enjoyed this video, and hope you do, too.



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More Than a Seatbelt Ad

Here’s a beautiful seatbelt ad that speaks powerfully about more than seatbelts.

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