Advice from an mature saint to a new believer

This is precious! This is J.I. Packer’s (apparently spontaneous) advice to a new believer in Christ. I’ve been a follower of Christ form most of my life, and even for me it is enormously helpful and edifying.

JI Packer Speaks To New Christians from Mike Anderson on Vimeo.

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Drug war in our backyard

My friend, Andy Naselli, just sent me this link to a photo essay on boston.com of Mexico’s violent drug war.  Some very sobering pictures.  Please pray for Mexico.

Here are some more photos of the border drug war [...]

Conference on Creation, Science, and the Bible

Tonight we finished up a great three-day conference on creationism with Dr. Bill Lovegrove.  Dr. Lovegrove is chairman of the Department of Physics and Engineering at BJU and a frequent speaker on creationism.  Seminar topics included the following:

Intelligent Design
Evolution
The age of the earth
Fossils and the flood
The Christian and the Environment

We were excited to be able to [...]

High-impact books: Ten books that have shaped my life and thinking

These are books that I’ve read that, at the time in my theological and spiritual pilgrimage when I read them, had a particularly profound impact upon my life and thinking. [...]

How to pray for missionaries (part 2)

NOTE: Originally posted here on January 31, 2008.

This afternoon I read the following comments in a fine little book called The Gospel & Personal Evangelism:

One of the most common and dangerous mistakes in evangelism is to misinterpret the results of evangelism—the conversion of unbelievers—for evangelism itself, which is the simple telling of the gospel message…. [...]

How to pray for missionaries

NOTE: Originally posted here on January 31, 2008.

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing [...]

A Blog is Born

Gratia et Veritas was born on March 20, 2009 at 9:43 A.M. in Monterrey Mexico.

John 1:17:

“quia lex per Moysen data est, gratia et veritas per Iesum Christum facta est.”

“For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

“Porque la Ley fue dada por medio de Moisés; la gracia y la [...]