Recommended Listening: How God Overcomes Failure in Your Family

How God Overcomes Failure in Your Family

Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss is doing a series this week called “How God Overcomes Failure in Your Family” with Bro. Voddie Baucham. You’ll not want to miss this! If you have never heard Bro. Voddie, you are in for a treat! Prepare to be convicted and encouraged by this great man of God who was raised in less than ideal circumstances. God is God over all our situations, and He can redeem each and every one of them!

Here’s what you need to know: I didn’t grow up with godly manhood in my life. I did not grow up with godly examples in my life.

I just came back from Los Angeles, and, in God’s providence, last weekend I had a conference in the LA area. I grew up in Los Angeles. I grew up in drug-invested, gang-invested, south central Los Angeles, California. I was raised by a single, teenage, Buddhist mother. I never heard the gospel until my freshman year in college. I grew up with my mother, so I didn’t have much connection with my father’s side of the family.

God’s bigger than the failures in your families. My wife Bridget and I, of the last two generations of both sides of our families, 25 marriages, 22 divorces. That’s our legacy.

Here’s what I want you to know: God is able, and He is sufficient.

Read the transcripts or listen to the series here: ROH Radio :: How God Overcomes Failure in Your Family (Voddie Baucham)

Sharing My Sunday 8/15/10

I would like to have a column for Sundays called “Sharing My Sunday”, in which I share quotes or lessons I’ve learned in church that day. Here is this Sunday’s entry.

“…in a culture where women were despised at worst and ignored at best, Jesus valued women.”
—Julie-Allyson Ieron, Transformed Women in the Bible, our current Sunday School study

“Jesus was in a difficult position; He was doing the will of His Father, knowing that His continued obedience had led both the religious leaders and His own family to conclude that He was deranged.”
—Ibid.

“We can’t loose our salvation because Christ is in Heaven interceding for us!”
—Pastor

“The healing that Jesus and the apostles performed was not to keep believers healthy, but a sign to unbelievers verifying the truthfulness of the Gospel and its preachers.”
—John MacArthur

And some from last week from my pastor.

“Freedom in Christ is freedom from having to work your way to Heaven.”
(I just love this!)

“Atheists deny what the devil and demons believe” [that God is real].

“It does Christ and the church a huge discredit when we don’t live right, and then try to witness.”