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It’s been a while since I posted. 

First, the ministry @ Solomon’s Porch has changed meeting places.  We now meet at 2620 Una Antioch Pk, Antioch, Tn 37013 in case you wanna come out and join us some Sunday evening @ 5:30 pm for worship.

Second, I just updated our Sermons section of the Blog to include Hebrews Part 16 thru 24.  I Should get Hebrews Part 25-28 up in a few days for your listening pleasure as well.

Third, I am pleased to announce the launch of a new ministry in South East Nashville called The Branch.  Go Check them out here on facebook  The Branch began by opening a food pantry on Tuesdays from 3 pm to 6:30 pm that is mainly meant to serve those in Southeast Nashville.  It’s not just a feeding center, we are preparing to offer Life Enrichment Workshops beginning in May along with ESL Classes beginning this summer.  Are you looking for opportunities to make Kingdom friendships so that you can be a Gospel Ambassador?  Come help us reach out to the poor, strangers, widows, and orphans of SE Nashville.   

New Men’s Discipleship Starting Up Soon!

Discipling Dads

Why?

I grew up with out a father to lead and guide me through the early years of my life.  When I became a follower of Jesus at the age of 22 the Lord impressed upon me that I needed to prepare myself to be a man that, by the grace of God, would make a break with the generational sins of my fathers and lay a new foundation in righteousness for coming generations in my family.  The problem was that I had no example.  So I asked the Lord to show me where to start, and He in turn gave me Psalm 128 as a guiding passage for my life.  From Psalm 128, the Lord gave me 5 key areas of life that a man of God should make his personal study.  They are the Word of God, and what it says about work, money, being a husband, father, and a leader.

What exactly will Discipling Dads do?

Beginning in April Discipling Dads will challenge you to read a book a month on each of the topics from Psalm 128, and meet for discussion, accountability, and prayer on Saturday mornings.  The schedule will look like this,

April                                      Knowing Scripture                                   R. C. Sproul
May                                      God @ Work                                           Gene Edward Vieth
June and July                         Money Life                                             Crown Financial
August                                   Husbands & Father’s                                Derek Prince
September                             Called to Lead                                         John MacArthur

Who is invited?

If you are a man……….. young, old, married, single, with kids, with out kids, grandfather, or not this is for you.  Whether you are preparing for the future or need on the job training, this is for you.  Yes, it will involve work, but it will be work you’ll never be sorry you did.

Where:            The Branch Bldg

When:              8:00-9:30ish am on Saturday mornings

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It has been a busy past few weeks with Christmas, New Years, and a Student Retreat in east Tennessee, so I apologize about missing a few weeks worth of devotionals.  I pray that God richly blesses your quiet time alone with Him over the next week.

And if I might offer a tip on how to use the e-devotional.  It is created with the individual in mind, but it can also be used in family worship.  Open with the Preparing our Heart section every time you gather your family together for worship this week.  Don’t worry so much about repetition, doing the same thing a few times helps people (especially children) to learn.  Have your family repeat the prayer after you, line by line.  Read a different Scripture Reading each day, there are six total, so there should be plenty.  Use the Children’s Catechism Questions a couple times this wee, it’ll help them build a robust theology early in life (we try to learn 5 a month).  I myself have learned a lot from teaching the Catechism to my children.The songs can be listened to or sung, and the Roots and Wings section can be read out loud to the whole family.  It’ll help build a healthy view of the Church of the past, which are part of the over all Communion of the Saints, and worshiping members of the Church already in Heaven.  Remember God is not God of the dead, but of the living. (Matt 22:32)

I know family worship can be an awkward thing to start, especially if you’ve never made it a part of your weekly rhythm of life.  But when God tells us to “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it” (Psalm 22:6), he is talking as much or more about training our children in the worship of God than about mere morality.  If we do not cultivating the worship of God in our children, we have no basis upon which to trust that they will suddenly one day turn out to be worshipers of God in Christ Jesus.  If we do not cultivate the worship of God in our families, then they will not gain the full benefit that comes in the weekly worship gatherings of the Saints in your local church.  I can’t encourage you enough to spend, not just daily time personally with the Lord, but to make family worship a part of your daily life as well.  A personal goal I have is to have family worship one day with my children, and my children’s children…….. and if the Lord tarries and l live to be a very old man, to have family worship with my great grandchildren.  I can think of nothing more beautiful than 50 years with my lovely bride and four generations of believers surrendered to Jesus Christ and His Gospel.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.  And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Advent Devotional Week 3

The Advent Devotional for this week is now available on the Devotions page of the blog.  Use is as a daily reading for your personal time with the Lord or use it as a daily time with your family.  There are Scripture Readings, a Devotional Thought for the Week, Carols, and even a project for the kiddos.

Soli Deo Gloria

New Discipling Dads Video Blog

How do you know if you are filled with the Spirit of God?  What’s the difference between the fruit of the Spirit and the filling of the Holy Spirit?  Check out the latest Discipling Dads video blog to find out.

Discipling Dads “Fruit of the Spirit vs Filled with the Spirit”

Discipling Dads Men’s Prayer Breakfast meets every Saturday morning @ 8:00 am in the southeast Nashville area between I-24 and I-40.  email Jeremy Mack for details and directions at jemack@lighthouseministries.org

Solomon’s Porch meets for Worship @ 5:30 pm on Sunday evenings in the library at Lighthouse Christian Fellowship

New Sermon Now Available

As we Continue our Sunday Evening Study Series in the Book of Hebrews, the glory and majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ shines brighter and brighter.  The Book of Hebrews deals with the humanity and High Priestly aspects of Jesus’ ministry more completely than any other book of the New Testament.  Hebrews Part 14, based on 4:12-16, is now available.  Keep a check on the Sermon section of the blog for new content as we add things fairly often.  I pray the Lord richly bless His Word to you.

Soli Deo Gloria

Advent e-devotional

As we continue to prepare our hearts to celebrate the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, I pray the Advent Devotional is helpful for you as you spend daily time with the Risen King.

 

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Hebrews Part 13 is now available to listen to online

Look for Hebrews Part 14 to come out later in the week, as well as a new Discipling Dads video blog.  Go check out week 1 in the Solomon’s Porch Advent e-Devotional.  Printed Advent Guides are available upon request.

Soli Deo Gloria

 

 

Advent Devotional

Solomon’s Porch has the first week of the Advent Guide complete and up online in the Devotions section of the blog.  There are daily Scripture readings, Carols, a devotional thought, and even a project for the kiddos to do that will help them to see Christmas from a new perspective.

Soli Deo Gloria

Suggested Reading

There are 4 things I always talk about as I am applying the Scriptures to everyday life and practice.  They are,

1. Cultivate a deep walk with Christ

2. Gather your family for Family Worship frequently

3. Make worship as a community a priority on the Lord’s Day

4. Serve Christ, show the love of Christ in acts of righteousness.
Here is a link on how to have what they call “A Family Meeting“.  Good stuff, short article, worth the read.  I hope it helps to shape your thinking and your practice of worshiping as a family.

I do a lot of my own thinking in these matters and have spent the greater part of the last 17 years trying to flesh them out so to speak.  In thinking about these matters, I tend to read what other people have to say about them.  In all honesty, usually, my reading consists of a bunch of dead guys, especially when it comes to “Family Worship”.  It is not often that I get to read something from somebody still walking around on this particular subject.  I have been doing some reading lately on the website that the link above is from called Paths of Return.  This is not an endorsement of everything they say, so don’t take it that way, but their work in what they call the Re-Family area has been good reading.

 

Soli Deo Gloria