Blog - 01/2008

I want to introduce you to another person on the team that helps me with Na. Jeff Martin the eternal intern. Jeff’s main job is to keep us laughing at
Na Team meetings. Besides contributing great ideas to the team he also makes some great art.

Check it out.

So my friend CJ Mahaney has his own blog on over on the Sovereign Grace site.

There is nobody in the world that I could recommend more as a guide for teaching you to walk with Christ.  Check it out if you’ve got a few minutes.

So today I want to give you four more thoughts from Watson.

The question is this:  How do we glorify God?
7.  “We Glorify God by being CONTENTED in that state in which providence has placed us.” Here’s a great quote from that section: “We give God the glory for his wisdom, when we rest satisfied with what he carves out for us.”

8.…

I have a concern. I was having lunch with Mark Dever (pastor at Capital Hill Baptist) recently and he said something that made me start thinking:

“Often, the first generation of Christians grab hold of the gospel, the second generation of Christians tend to assume the gospel, and the third generation of Christian abandons the gospel.”

I see many people in the second category—people…

Here are some more thoughts for today from a dead guy named Watson.

If you have not seen the past 2 posts here they are: part 1, part 2

Here are 2 more points on how to aim at glorifying God with your life.

5. “We glorify God by believing him.”

Here is a great quote…

For those that are a little confused by my last post or those who think I need to get my hearing checked, 2 things:  Scott can’t sing and I’ve never liked American Idol.

Here’s what really happened.  While Devon (who leads worship at Na) and Jeremy White (producer for Nap records) were working on the latest CD by Nap records (Lord willing to be released in May at the conference) they decided to play a joke on Scott (staff director for Na).

Devon and Jeremy asked Scott to come into the studio, they said, because…

Ok, so I want to let you in on something we are pretty excited about here at Na.  Our staff director Scott Schefferstein has always dreamed about being on American Idol.  So here is a clip of his debut.  Lets pray that this really puts Sovereign Grace music on the map.

Stay tuned for more.

Enjoy.

If you haven’t see the Na Promo video yet, take a look.

In the video Josh and I talk about why we do New Attitude and give people that maybe haven’t gone a little window into the annual gathering.

Many people who have seen it ask me about the barn. Yep we shot the video in an old barn. I was a…

Okay, here are a couple more truths from an old dead theologian. Thomas Watson Continues the list I started yesterday.

3. “We aim at God’s glory with our life when we are CONTENT to be outshined by others in gifts and esteem so that his glory may be increased”.

(Ouch.)

4. “We aim at God’s glory by an honest and sincere confession of sin.”…

So I think we need to give a bonus to moms everywhere!

I have been taking care of the fam for the past 2 weeks so that my wife could recover from the birth of our new little girl emerie elle simmmons.

There is no doubt in my mind that being a mom is the hardest job in the world.  But there is also no doubt…

Every Christian needs dead people in their life.  We all need them--wise counselors from the past who knew God deeply and wrote about it. 

Do you have any dead guys in your life? Here are mine:

_Thomas Watson
_Charles Bridges
_Martyn Lloyd Jones
_Jonathan Edwards
_Francis Schaeffer

Now and then I want to give you a…

A few weeks ago I sat down with C.J. and Josh and talked about the message topics for this year’s conference. It was a great conversation.

Personally, I’m really excited that we’re going to spend 4 days learning from CJ, Josh, Al Mohler, Mark Dever and John Piper about the Bible--some of the men that have influenced me on my understanding of the Bible the most. We’re about…

I hope you got a chance to read Jon’s article on caring for people who are suffering. Jon is one of the pastors I have the privilege to serve within our church’s singles ministry and I can say that there is nobody I respect more in their walk with God than Jon and and his wife Jenni.  As they continue to walk through this test of suffering…

So we got a new site.

Tell us what you think.  Got any feedback or encouragement? Let us know. Your feedback helps us make changes to the site.

UPDATE: New websites look nice but they are always a few kinks to work out. Right now we’re working on enabling comments for the blog so hang in there...

Ryan James (our web guru) has been…

So I gotta share a picture taken by Matt Wahl (our design guru).

It was out in a field under some power lines. (Yes, those lights are lit. No, it’s not photoshopped)

Check it out.

If you live near power lines and want to try this I think you may need some protective head gear or something.  Google it.