Walking with Chris

Watts Wednesday - Christ's Dying, Rising, and Reigning

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Luke 23:27,29,44-46; Mt. 27:50,57; 28:6ff.

He dies! the friend of sinners dies!
Lo! Salem's daughters weep around;
A solemn darkness veils the skies;
A sudden trembling shakes the ground.

Come, saints, and drop a tear or two
For him who groaned beneath your load:
He shed a thousand drops for you,
A thousand drops of richer blood.

Here's love and grief beyond degree,
The Lord of glory dies for men!
But lo! what sudden joys we see;
Jesus the dead revives again!

The rising God forsakes the tomb!
The tomb in vain forbids his rise;
Cherubic legions guard him home,
And shout him welcome to the skies

Break off your fears, ye saints, and tell
How high our great Deliv'rer reigns;
Sing how he spoiled the hosts of hell,
And led the monster Death in chains.

Say, "Live for ever, wondrous King!
Born to redeem, and strong to save;
Then ask the monster, "Where's thy sting?"
And, "Where's thy vict'ry, boasting Grave?"

Luke 23:27,29,44-46; Mt. 27:50,57; 28:6ff.

He dies! the friend of sinners dies!
Lo! Salem's daughters weep around;
A solemn darkness veils the skies;
A sudden trembling shakes the ground.

Come, saints, and drop a tear or two
For him who groaned beneath your load:
He shed a thousand drops for you,
A thousand drops of richer blood.

Here's love and grief beyond degree,
The Lord of glory dies for men!
But lo! what sudden joys we see;
Jesus the dead revives again!

The rising God forsakes the tomb!
The tomb in vain forbids his rise;
Cherubic legions guard him home,
And shout him welcome to the skies

Break off your fears, ye saints, and tell
How high our great Deliv'rer reigns;
Sing how he spoiled the hosts of hell,
And led the monster Death in chains.

Say, "Live for ever, wondrous King!
Born to redeem, and strong to save;
Then ask the monster, "Where's thy sting?"
And, "Where's thy vict'ry, boasting Grave?"

Watt's Wednesday - YE SONS OF ADAM, VAIN AND YOUNG

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:41:00 +0000

Ye sons of Adam, vain and young,
Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue,
Taste the delights your souls desire,
And give a loose to all your fire;

Pursue the pleasures you design,
And cheer your hearts with songs and wine;
Enjoy the day of mirth, but know
There is a day of judgment, too.

God from on high records your thoughts,
His book records your secret faults;
The works of darkness you have done
Must all appear before the sun.

The vengeance to your follies due
Should strike your hearts with terror through:
How will you stand before His face,
Or answer for His injured grace?

Almighty God! turn off their eyes
From these alluring vanities;
And let the thunder of Thy Word
Awake their souls to fear the Lord.

Watts' Wednesday - Psalm 7

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:33:00 +0000

God's care of his people.

My trust is in my heav'nly Friend,

My hope in thee, my God;

Rise, and my helpless life defend

From those that seek my blood.

With insolence and fury they

My soul in pieces tear,

As hungry lions rend the prey,

When no deliverer's near.

If I had e'er provoked them first,

Or once abused my foe,

Then let him tread my life to dust,

And lay mine honor low.

If there be malice found in me,

I know thy piercing eyes;

I should not dare appeal to thee,

Nor ask my God to rise.

Arise, my God, lift up thy hand,

Their pride and power control;

Awake to judgment, and command

Deliverance for my soul.

[Let sinners, and their wicked rage,

Be humbled to the dust;

Shall not the God of truth engage

To vindicate the just?

He knows the heart, he tries the reins,

He will defend th' upright

His sharpest arrows he ordains

Against the sons of spite.

For me their malice digged a pit,

But there themselves are cast;

My God makes all their mischief light

On their own heads at last.]

That cruel, persecuting race

Must feel his dreadful sword:

Awake, my soul, and praise the grace

And justice of the Lord.

Watts Wednesday - Hymn 44

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:30:00 +0000

Hell; or, The vengeance of God.

With holy fear and humble song,
The dreadful God our souls adore;
Rev'rence and awe become the tongue
That speaks the terrors of his power.

Far in the deep where darkness dwells,
The land of horror and despair,
Justice has built a dismal hell,
And laid her stores of vengeance there.

[Eternal plagues, and heavy chains,
Tormenting racks, and fiery coals,
And darts t' inflict immortal pains,
Dyed in the blood of damned souls.]

[There Satan, the first sinner, lies,
And roars, and bites his iron bands;
In vain the rebel strives to rise,
Crushed with the weight of both thy hands.]

There guilty ghosts of Adam's race
Shriek out, and howl beneath thy rod
Once they could scorn a Savior's grace,
But they incensed a dreadful God.

Tremble, my soul, and kiss the Son;
Sinners, obey the Savior's call;
Else your damnation hastens on,
And hell gapes wide to wait your fall

On Worship

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:37:00 +0000

"Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite." - STEPEHEN CHARNOCK

Ringing in the New Year!

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:59:00 +0000

Happy New Years. May this year be filled with the grace, peace and joy that the Lord provides.

John 1:6-8 Outine

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:30:00 +0000

John 1:6-8

God sends Individual
Those sent bear the Light
You only have to Testify

The Knots Prayer

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Dear God,
Please untie the knots
that are in my mind,
my heart and my life.
Remove the have nots,
and can nots and the do nots
that I have in my mind.

Erase the will nots,
may nots,
might nots that may find
a home in my heart.

Release me from the could nots,
would nots and
should nots that obstruct my life.

And most of all,
Dear God,
I ask that you remove from my mind,
my heart and my life all the ‘am nots’
that I have allowed to hold me back,
especially the thought
that I am not good enough.
Amen.

(Author Known to God)

On Associations and Missions

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:07:00 +0000

Associational Mission work is like one man saying to another, "I am going the same way. Can I ride with you? I'll help pay for the gas." Many people do not understand that by working together we can accomplish more, go further, see more added to the Kingdom and God glorified.

Spurgeon on the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:13:00 +0000

This little volume is not issued as an authoritative rule, or code of faith, whereby you are to be fettered, but as an assistance to you in controversy, a confirmation in faith, and a means of edification in righteousness. Here the younger members of our church will have a body of divinity in small compass, and by means of Scriptural proofs, will be ready to give an account for the hope that is in them. Be not ashamed of your faith; remember it is the ancient gospel of martyrs, confessors, reformers and saints. Above all, it is “the truth of God”, against which the gates of Hell cannot prevail. Let your lives adorn your faith, let your example adorn your creed. Above all live in Christ Jesus, and walk in Him, giving credence to no teaching but that which is manifestly approved of Him, and owned by the Holy Spirit. Cleave fast to the Word of God which is here mapped out for you.

- Charles Spurgeon, in his preface to the 1689 London Baptist Confession

Who and Where Numbers on Evangelism

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:53:00 +0000

91% of all Christian outreach/evangelism does not target unevangelized countries, but countries that are already 95% evangelized.

- Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends

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Facts about the the Need for the Gospel in India

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:38:00 +0000

· India, a secular and democratic country, is standing with population of one billion.

· There are 3000 casts and sub-casts. 50% of the population has never heard the name of Jesus;

· 330 million gods are worshipped; Hinduism is the major religion with 85% of India’s population;

· 80% people live in 600,000 villages. 500,000 villages have no gospel workers or church.

· Born again Christians are just 2% out of the expected 3.5% Christians; 55,000 people die each day eternally separated from Jesus Christ.

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:37:00 +0000

This years Fighter Verses focus on three important things: 1) The character and worth of our great God, 2)Battling against our fleshly desires, and 3)The hope of the Gospel.

Psalm 30 Outline - OMG - Oh My God

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:17:00 +0000

1-3 Oh My God Loves Me

4-5 Oh My God Is Praise Worthy

6-10 Oh My God I Am Foolish

11-12 Oh My God Has Changed Me

Are you sick of highly paid teachers?

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:07:00 +0000

Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit!

We can get that for less than minimum wage.

That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan-- that equals 6 1/2 hours).

Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.

However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.

LET'S SEE....

That's $585 X 180= $105,300

per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).

What about those special

education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an

hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.

Wait a minute -- there's

something wrong here! There sure is!

The average teacher's salary

(nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days

= $277.77/per day/30

students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student--a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.

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Fight like a Man - Memorize Philippians from a Moleskine

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:28:00 +0000

I began following and tweeting with guy named Timmy Brister a while back. Cool guy, good theology and a great love for the Lord and His people. Seen some good stuff coming out in his tweets. He answered a few tweets and sent me to some eye opening resources by Tim Keller. And then it happened. He posted about this crazy things called Partnering to Remember. He threw down the gauntlet to fight like a man and memorize the Book of Philippians for a moleskine notebook. The whole concept was exciting and scary at the same time. I loved the idea of doing it but I had been known as a kid the the Muppet character name of Forgetful Jones. I have always struggled with memorizing anything let alone scripture. I don't know my own phone number most of the time and there is no way that I could recall an old one like my wife can. So how I am going to do this. I am a bi-vocational pastor balancing family, work, shepherding, discipling, and rest so where do I fit this in. All I know it that I must. I accepted to join the challenge that is way bigger than me as Timmy has share that people from all over the world have join in. Its gone global. Resurgence has even gotten in on it. I will be partnering with with brothers and sisters all across the world to memorize the Book of Philippians. There is a great deal of positive stress to not fail and encouragement to struggle together to do it. So I am down. Are you? Join us!!!!

Go here to see what Partnering to Remember is about.

Been a while

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:53:00 +0000

it has been a while since i have posted,. lots in life. but now it seems to be the time to get back to it!

Noah's Notes: Some Things You Should Always Pray For

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:42:00 +0000

Noah's Notes: Some Things You Should Always Pray For: "Your government leaders -- 1 Timothy 2:1-4The salvation of the Lost -- Romans 10:1The advancement of the Gospel -- 2 Thessalonians 3:1More l..."

Noah's Notes: Some Things You Should Always Pray For

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:42:00 +0000

Noah's Notes: Some Things You Should Always Pray For: "Your government leaders -- 1 Timothy 2:1-4The salvation of the Lost -- RPublish Postomans 10:1The advancement of the Gospel -- 2 Thessalonians 3:1More l..."

Voice to Make Congress Live Like You

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:27:00 +0000

Really important! Hope you all do it!
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

An idea whose time has come
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens have no idea that members of Congress can retire with the same pay after only one term, that they don't pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempt themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform legislation provisions.

Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Have each person contact a minimum of Twenty people on their Address list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."

You are one of my 20.

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Advice to Missionary Candidates by Adoniram Judson

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:27:00 +0000

To the Foreign Missionary Association of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, N. Y.

DEAR BRETHREN: Yours of November last, from the pen of your Corresponding Secretary, Mr. William Dean, is before me. It is one of the few letters that I feel called upon to answer, for you ask my advice on several important points. There is, also, in the sentiments you express, something so congenial to my own, that I feel my heart knit to the members of your association, and instead of commonplace reply, am desirous of setting down a few items which may be profitable to you in your future course. Brief items they must be, for want of time forbids my expatiating.

In commencing my remarks, I take you as you are. You are contemplating a missionary life.

First, then, let it be a missionary life; that is, come out for life, and not for a limited term. Do not fancy that you have a true missionary spirit, while you are intending all along to leave the heathen soon after acquiring their language. Leave them! for what? To spend the rest of your days in enjoying the ease and plenty of your native land?

Secondly. In choosing a companion for life, have particular regard to a good constitution, and not wantonly, or without good cause, bring a burden on yourselves and the mission.

Thirdly. Be not ravenous to do good on board ship. Missionaries have frequently done more hurt than good, by injudicious zeal, during their passage out.

Fourthly. Take care that the attention you receive at home, the unfavorable circumstances in which you will be placed on board ship, and the unmissionary examples you may possibly meet with at some missionary stations, do not transform you from living missionaries to mere skeletons before you reach the place of your destination. It may be profitable to bear in mind, that a large proportion of those who come out on a mission to the East die within five years after leaving their native land. Walk softly, therefore; death is narrowly watching your steps.

Fifthly. Beware of the reaction which will take place soon after reaching your field of labor. There you will perhaps find native Christians, of whose merits or demerits you can not judge correctly without some familiar acquaintance with their language. Some appearances will combine to disappoint and disgust you. You will meet with disappointments and discouragements, of which it is impossible to form a correct idea from written accounts, and which will lead you, at first, almost to regret that you have embarked in the cause. You will see men and women whom you have been accustomed to view through a telescope some thousands of miles long. Such an instrument is apt to magnify. Beware, therefore, of the reaction you will experience from a combination of all these causes, lest you become disheartened at commencing your work, or take up a prejudice against some persons and places, which will embitter all your future lives.

Sixthly. Beware of the greater reaction which will take place after you have acquired the language, and become fatigued and worn out with preaching the gospel to a disobedient and gainsaying people. You will sometimes long for a quiet retreat, where you can find a respite from the tug of toiling at native work -- the incessant, intolerable friction of the missionary grindstone. And Satan will sympathize with you in this matter; and he will present some chapel of ease, in which to officiate in your native tongue, some government situation, some professorship or editorship, some literary or scientific pursuit, some supernumerary translation, or, at least, some system of schools; anything, in a word, that will help you, without much surrender of character, to slip out of real missionary work. Such a temptation will form the crisis of your disease. If your spiritual constitution can sustain it, you recover; if not, you die.

Seventhly. Beware of pride; not the pride of proud men, but the pride of humble men -- that secret pride which is apt to grow out of the consciousness that we are esteemed by the great and good. This pride sometimes eats out the vitals of religion before its existence is suspected. In order to check its operations, it may be well to remember how we appear in the sight of God, and how we should appear in the sight of our fellow-men, if all were known. Endeavor to let all be known. Confess your faults freely, and as publicly as circumstances will require or admit. When you have done something of which you are ashamed, and by which, perhaps, some person has been injured (and what man is exempt?), be glad not only to make reparation, but improve the opportunity for subduing your pride.

Eighthly. Never lay up money for yourselves or your families. Trust in God from day to day, and verily you shall be fed.

Ninthly. Beware of that indolence which leads to a neglect of bodily exercise. The poor health and premature death of most Europeans in the East must be eminently ascribed to the most wanton neglect of bodily exercise.

Tenthly. Beware of genteel living. Maintain as little intercourse as possible with fashionable European society. The mode of living adopted by many missionaries in the East is quite inconsistent with that familiar intercourse with the natives which is essential to a missionary.

There are many points of self-denial that I should like to touch upon; but a consciousness of my own deficiency constrains me to be silent. I have also left untouched several topics of vital importance, it having been my aim to select such only as appear to me to have been not much noticed or enforced. I hope you will excuse the monitorial style that I have accidentally adopted. I assure you, I mean no harm.

In regard to your inquiries concerning studies, qualifications, etc., nothing occurs that I think would be particularly useful, except the simple remark, that I fear too much stress begins to be laid on what is termed a thorough classical education.

Praying that you may be guided in all your deliberations, and that I may yet have the pleasure of welcoming some of you to these heathen shores, I remain

Your affectionate brother,

A. JUDSON Maulmain, June 25, 1832

Copied by Stephen Ross for WholesomeWords.org from The Life of Adoniram Judson by Edward Judson. Published by Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1883. Appendix D.

Does a man have free will over his soul?

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:35:00 +0000

Freewill Advocates often argue that if one is able to choose God, then one is able to resist God. They state that here are both done by one's choice, their merit, their own will and thus one can lose their salvation. I conversely ask if a man has the ability to commit murder and succeeds at murdering an individual, does that mean they have the ability to bring the murdered victim back for the grave? The answer is no. Like wise man then is not able to save his soul or lose it either.

What is Sin?

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:12:00 +0000

The Glory of God not honored.
The Holiness of God not reverenced.
The Greatness of God not admired.
The power of God not praised.
The Truth of God not sought.
The Wisdom of God not Esteemed.
The Beauty of God not treasured.
The Goodness of God not savored.
The faithfulness of God not trusted.
The Commandments of God not obeyed.
The Justice of God not respected.
The Wrath of God not feared.
The Grace of God not cherished.
The presence of God not prized
The person of God not loved.
That is sin.

- John Piper

(ht: Already Not Yet)

A Few Men's Ministry Articles and Books

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:03:00 +0000

Men's Ministry

Article: 7 Secrets for Getting More Men Involved in Ministry
Article: A Theology and Philosophy of Men's Ministry
Article: Building Your Men's Ministry Leadership Team
Article: How to Build a Strong Men's Ministry
Article: Is Men's Ministry Workplace Ministry?
Article: Promise Keepers
Article: Rethinking Men's Ministry
Article: Success Strategies for Developing an Effective Men's Ministry
Article: "Sustainability" The #1 Problem in Men's Ministry
Article: Tune to Men's Needs
Book: As Iron Sharpens Iron : Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship by Howard Hendricks
Book: Brothers! Calling Men into Vital Relationships by Geoff Gorsuch
Book: Effective Men's Ministry: The Indispensable Toolkit for Your Church by Phil Downer, ed.
Book: How to Build a Life-Changing Men's Ministry : Bringing the Fire Home to Your Church by Steve Sonderman
Book: Men's Ministry in the 21st Century: The Encyclopedia of Practical Ideas by Group Publishing
Book: No Man Left Behind: How to Build and Sustain a Thriving Men's Ministry in Your Church by Patrick Morley, David Delk, Brett Clemmer
Book: Pastoring Men: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why it Matters Now More Than Ever by Patrick Morley
Book: The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face by Patrick M. Morley
Book: The Measure of a Man by Gene A. Getz
Book: The Silence of Adam: Becoming Men of Courage in a World of Chaos by Dr. Larry Crabb
Book: Why Men Hate Going to Church by David Murrow
More Men's Ministry Resources

Did An Earthquake Happen Because God Was Mad?

pricefamily98@hotmail.com (Chris Price ) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:04:00 +0000

A friend, pastor and uber-blogger, Brandon A. Cox has posted a great vlog or videoblog about the current crisis in Haiti that will help everyone understand if Pat Robertson is correct about God being mad, if we can be certain of such, what we should be doing and how to react to this.

As Timothy Fish wrote, "whether it is judgment or not, our responsibility remains unchanged. It is meaningless for us to debate whether God is judging Haiti or not. If he wishes to tell us, he will do so, but in the meantime, we should help them if we can."