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O that our hearts would have in them a right and deep appreciation and gratitude for all the beloved gifts God has given us, but that towering above those most intense and glad thanksgivings would be an increasing passion for King Jesus Himself.

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Christians, regardless of who they are, what color, where they live, how old they are, how famous or anonymous, how rich or poor, are members of a body, called the Church.
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Persecution of the Christian Church Today

“Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.” Hebrews 13:3 Continue Reading »

Know that evil’s beguiling includes convincing us that knowing God more deeply makes no difference. Continue Reading »

We live in a soft age; we are soft with ourselves and we want a soft Jesus. Continue Reading »

Matthew 15:29 “Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And He went up on the mountain and sat down there.” Continue Reading »

In sexual sin you are saying to God that you do not at that moment want to know Him and increase in the knowledge of Him, a call which according to 2 Peter 1:3-4 is a call to His own glory and excellence. Continue Reading »

Prayer thanks from last weekend – September 12,13, 2008

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to send a quick note to thank you for praying about the last weekend in Maxwell, Nebraska.

I am always asked the question, “So how did it go?” to which I normally respond, “I don’t really know. I think it went well.” I cannot help but answer that way because my ability to see, like yours, is not so good. I cannot see well into the hearts of people, though I think I am developing the ability to see pain and brokenness better than before. I am encouraged though by Paul’s words when he writes, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.”

I had the privilege of giving 2 talks, the first one on the supremacy of Christ over all things (including sex) and the second one on strategies for fighting for sexual purity. I recorded them both and would be happy to send you a copy if you’d like.

If you could, please continue to pray for the men who came. I cannot help but think that whatever movement up the mountainside of God’s glory was experienced will be and is being challenged in the life of every guy who attended. If the glory of Christ is shining just a little more brightly in the hearts and minds of these men, illuminating the valleys of sexual darkness in their more “odious colors,” that is sure to be resisted and is being resisted. The flesh, the world and the devil wants us in the valleys where moss grows well in the absence of light. Christ will not have it so, and as His little brothers and sisters, we should not want it so. Pray that the fresh mountain air of Christ’s presence would so continue to put guy’s taste buds “out of joint” for the inferior pleasures of sexual adultery, whatever form and degree it takes.

Through this process I have come to think that so much of the freedom to really live comes from the continual fight against the entitlement mentality we all have and the general lack of a theology of suffering we Americans live with. In combination these two are deadly. 

Finally, thank you to everyone who also contributed financially. We were blessed to have Desiring God www.desiringGOD.org come forward and give us two tremendous resources at a greatly reduced cost, and it was good to buy 5O books and 30 CDs and see them gone!

IN HIS GRIP,

Marty  

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Just a short note asking you to pray for an upcoming venture; Continue Reading »