Just an update on our Sermon Audio page. We have been broadcasting since mid-June. Through July there have been 416 downloads by people throughout the U.S.—and get this—throughout the world! People in Australia, Canada, China, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, and the United Kingdom have downloaded sermons. This is truly amazing. I pray the Christian and Reformed faith would spread across the world, regenerating, reviving, and reforming! 

Back in the day . . . I was a youth pastor during my college days. When I attended a youth pastor's convention up in L.A., I and came into contact with one of the most phenomenal sermons I have ever heard: "My King!" I recently found out it was by Shadrach Meshach Lockridge, who was the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church of San Diego from 1953–1993.

Oh, that the Holy Spirit would give us Reformed preachers a drop of this anointing! As Calvinist preachers we need this passion, we need this power, we need this poetry in our pulpit ministries as we seek to unlock the treasures of Christ to poor sinners!

As you are reading through the Bible in 2009, you may have wondered at the necessity of reading the genealogies. My thesis advisor, Dr. Joel Beeke of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, has a great little article on "Jesus' Family Tree" in Matthew chapter 1 here.

Against their better judgment, my alma mater, Westminster Seminary California, has profiled me on their "Meet a Graduate" web page. Read it here.

 Parishioner Dan Borvan blogs about my sermon last Lord's Day morning on the first three plagues, in which I said we must not cage and leash these chapters because they present "the other side" of our gracious Triune God, but instead we must uncage and unleash the Word like a lion, allowing God to do his work!