Posts by Jacob
Updates: God the builder and wind
Many things have been, as the say, afoot – or afeet, if you’re a hobbit. Allow me to update and reflect. The 72 hour sale We put our house on the market on Thursday, May 8. We got an offer on the house that Sunday night. I’m not sure if it was exactly 72 hours, but the house went quickly. We were rather shocked at how fast things progressed, but God was clearly involved. This weekend we finished negotiations and are settled on everything. All things are good to go until we settle, which will be July 19. Finally accepted Having sold the house, you might expect that we’d officially been accepted in to the PC. Alas, no. We had not heard yet but knew...
Read MoreA Prayer from the 16th Psalm
This poem comes from a recent meditation of mine on Psalm 16. The Lord himself above the trials ahead, Before the anxieties of man, Larger than the looming wave, Deeper than the gaping land, He is my portion, chosen as precious above all else, He, above all else, is my inheritance and delight: This world will change its clothes, This body will decay, These eyes will fade in sight, This dust be blown away. Yet he is the beauty to be desired, A fountain eternally beautiful and flowing, Rushing over basin edge Never faltering or drying. The Lord exceeds it all, As mountains to pebbles, As Niagara to a faucet, As Andromeda to a night light, As a hurricane to my breathing....
Read MoreAdoption will break your heart
Adoption will break your heart. That’s Jennifer Gilmore’s sobering advice in her recent piece in The Atlantic: Every adoption story begins with the story of someone breaking someone else’s heart… Adoption is not for the faint of heart. Now we are four years older than when we started, and significantly poorer. I look at my son—a word I am scared to utter—and I still wonder not if, but when, he will be taken. In her piece, one of Mrs. Gilmore’s points is that adoptions happen, from either side, because of heartbreak. The mother is taken advantage of by a boyfriend and left with the decision of this child – or she uses the child to get money and security at the...
Read MoreNew Blog, New Ministry
Welcome to the new blog! Michelle and I have now married our blogs. The two have become one. A new blog, a new design, and a new ministry direction for us. Over the past ten years I have been pursuing clarity on the question of calling into pastoral ministry. The last six of those years have been as a member of Covenant Fellowship Church. After much consideration, prayer and evaluation, the pastors of CFC have decided to send us to Sovereign Grace Ministries‘ Pastors College this fall. We will move to Louisville, Kentucky this September to attend the PC for 9 months, and then will do an internship at another Sovereign Grace church. You can read more about what...
Read MoreSGM Update: CJ’s Transition
Sovereign Grace has made the announcement that CJ will be transitioning out of his post as President in SGM effective April 12. They have made his official announcement available at the blog here, and the SGM Board’s thoughts are available here. Rightfully so, there should be a deep note of gratitude for CJ’s labors to this point and his example through these last years. It is a mark of faithfulness to partnering together in the Gospel that though CJ is stepping out of leadership, he is continuing to press in to SGM for our mission together in the future. I think the ratification of the polity will issue in exciting days ahead for SGM, especially for men...
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