Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper

I found another great Daily Lent Reading Plan for Resurrection Sunday that I will start on February 19, Lord willing. I will be reading again Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper. I will be reading one chapter for each day.

We all do need reminder of this and to be reminded why Jesus came to die for us on the Cross. I am so thankful for who He is.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Finally Alive by John Piper!

Some weeks ago, I finish reading Finally Alive by John Piper! It is a wonderful great book about two different view of born again. I am so thankful that he made it so clear what born again really do means and what it really do look like in the real life.

One view is the worldly view of born again which isn't biblical view of born again. A lot of people thinks that they are born again just because they are Christian, or they go to church. This is according to Barna Group.

The other view is Biblical view of born again, and this is the correct view of born again and who are a true believer for Christ.

I had been so frustrated or so perplex with some people who consider themselves a believer, or Christian, or born again Christian when their life or fruits doesn't reflect that. I am so aware that some of you had been so frustrated or so perplex with them. Of course, it is hard to witness to them when they think that they got it. Only the Lord alone knows their heart whether they are a true believer for Christ or not.

Are you really born again according to the Biblical View? If you aren't sure, I would encourage you all to get this book and find out for yourself whether you are truly born again or not.

John Piper does really explain what born again really means in Biblical Views. He will point you to the scriptures very clearly. I am so thankful how he does point them out and explain the differences between the worldly view and Biblical view of born again. Thank you, John Piper!

Again, I can see this book can be a great tools for you to use as you are mentoring other new believer to live their life for Christ.

I do truly 100% agree with the Biblical view of what Born again really do means.

I know that I am born again and living my life for Christ.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Been So Busy!

Sorry, I haven't written a post since January 6th. I have been so busy getting red tape things done that I need to have it done. They are no fun to do them. With the Lord helps, I was able to do most of them. I still have some more to do. Please do pray for me and for the wisdom that I need to have Also pray for Loan Modification too even though I am caught up paying my first mortgage. I still do need to lower down my house payment. I am still waiting for some paper work to come through which should be here this month before it is over. I also have been working at Odds and Ends job which is a true joy to do for the Lord.

Now, here I am. As of January 1st, I have been eating His Word by using Justin Nale's Bible Reading Plan. I am hanging in there and enjoying it. I am so thankful for this Daily Bible Reading Plan that is perfect for me. I haven't miss a day on this which is a praise. I normally wake up early in the morning and have this for my breakfast with my ear turned off but turn on my spiritual ear to hear Him speaking to me as I am eating His Word.

Have you started a Bible Reading Plan for yourself for this year? If not, it isn't too late to start this wonderful godly habit to have a Daily Bible Reading Plan. Not sure about what kind of Bible Reading Plan, click on that link, and it will take you to other kind of Bible Reading Plan.

I also have been reading John Piper's book on Finally Alive. I am so in love with this wonderful book. I am so thankful for this wonderful book that explain the difference between the worldly view of Born Again and the Biblical view of Born Again. I totally 100% agree with Biblical view of Born Again. I also now do understand why I have been so frustrated with people who claimed that they are born again. I tend to be Thomas the Doubted about that they are born again when their life doesn't reflect that. We all need to educated those who does claim to be born again what Biblical Born Again really do means.

As of last night, I have started reading The Mortification of Sin by John Owen. I know that I will be learning a lot from this wonderful book. (By the way, I haven't finish reading Finally Alive, but I will soon.) I am reading The Mortification of Sin by John Owen with Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church in Rocky Mount on Wednesday night. We share and answer questions what we are learning in this book. I am looking for the next Wednesday night that is February 16th with them again. (It isn't every Wednesday night for this study.) This is more like having Theological Studies again. I love to be in a group like this. I truly do miss having Tuesday Morning Theological Breakfast that my wonderful church family (Christ Baptist Church of Wilson) had.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Question: What book (not counting the Bible) are you currently reading that is challenging to you to live your life for Christ?

I am currently reading Finally Alive by John Piper and can't wait to read more tonight. I am still in the first chapter and am a slow reader since I am a digger. I am really enjoying this book and learning a lot too. I am so thankful for John Piper and his love for Christ. I do have a lot of his books and so thankful for them too.

I do want to encourage you all to get a wonderful godly book to read that will challenge you to live your life for Christ or to help you to understand His Word with the Holy Spirit better, and also to grow more in love for Christ!

Reading His Word is the best of all. We should do that daily without any question of doubt. I do want to encourage you all that you also get wonderful godly books to read to get to know Christ better too.

If you don't know what books to get, then look up on this blog and click on Books! There you will see what books I had read. They are the books that I do want to encourage other to read. I will continue to update that link. I will not post any books that I don't want others to read but only post books that I would encourage other to read.

I do hope that your church does have a book table for you to look through and buy them. If not, Desiring God does have a lot of wonderful books to read. Where to find wonderful godly books? You can go to Westminter Bookstore, Monergism Books, and Crossway Books. I just listed a few bookstore that you can buy online.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Don't Waste Your Life By Not Eating His Word!

Yes, we can't afford to waste our life by not eating His Word daily.

Just because we all were snowbound and worship service was cancel due to the danger on the road. This doesn't give us the excuse to skip the worship at home. I am thankful for the opportunity for this to teach me a lesson today. I am also thankful that Justin Childers, our pastor at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson had email us that worship service had to be cancel, and he also gave us an assignment what we should be doing on Sunday morning.

Our assignment was to read the entire book of Philippians and be praying for our members of CBCW along with Philippians 1:9-11. I also did pray for the regular attender as well as the members of CBCW. Sing some songs of the faith. And also to listen to one of his sermon that we had missed. What a wonderful time I had this morning. Thank you, Justin for having us to do this at home. I do thank the Lord for you.

Now, on the other subject again about Don't Waste Your Life By Not Eating His Word.

It isn't too late to start reading your Bible daily and meditation daily too. Last year, I did read the whole ESV Bible daily, and I am doing this again this year in NASB (New American Standard Bible) and with meditations (Taste and See by John Piper) for the first time this year. I can tell you how bless I was to do this and still am thankful for the time to eat His Word daily. I would encourage you all to do the same thing. If I can do it, then you can do it.

We all need to be hungry to eat His Word daily! It is YUMMY to eat His Word and reviving the soul.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Knowing God, what a book to read!

I had been reading Knowing God for a long time. I recently finish it on Thursday. What a wonderful book to read. I also encourage you all to read his book if you haven't read it or read it again if you haven't read it for ages. I had written about it in some of my blog posting go to label and click on Knowing God (I just made the label for this). Here is the link: Knowing God

Right now, I started reading God is the Gospel by John Piper. I am looking forward to write more about it on this blog. Here is the link: God is the Gospel

I do hope that you are reading something wonderful about who He is. It is amazing to read books like this to open my eyes more and more and learn more about Christ. Of course, we all do need to eat His Word daily. I do find reading other books like this does help me to understand God and Christ more. I do hope this will encourage you to read others books as well as His Word.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

When I Don't Desire God (Part 2)

Sometimes last year, I wrote a post about When I Don't Desire God by John Piper that I had read. On June 4th in our Wednesday night small (growing) group, we were reading When I Don't Desire God, chapter 8 on How to Wielding the Word in the fight for Joy (Musing, Memorizing, and the Message of God) It is so wonderful to be reminded again and again how much we all do need to Wielding the Word in the fight for Joy! I am so thankful for our pastor, Justin Childers to have this reminder that we all need.

I would encourage you all to read my Pastor Justin's blog: Wielding the Word

If you don't have this book, I would encourage you all to get this book.

Are you hungry to eat His Word and to mussing, memorizing, and hearing/eating the message of God?

Hungry to eat His Word!
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Books, Books, and Books!

I do want to thank the Lord for blessing me with books to read with His Word in each books! One of my co-worker had blessed me with a big check, so that I can buy books to read. I was so surprise and cry and hugged her. I don't deserve a gift like this. She knows that I love to read but didn't know what books to get for me. She said that I can use it for other things that is not just books. I did used it to buy books and not finish buying some more yet. I will post other books as I get each books.

With the cash, I was able to buy some books that is:
Here is the list of the books that I got on Sunday from CBCW's (Christ Baptist Church of Wilson) book table.
Knowing God by J.I. Packer (I couldn't find Daddy's copy of it, so I had to get me one.)
A Godward Life 120 Daily Reading by John Piper (I will start reading this on January 1st.)
God is the Gospel by John Piper
What Jesus Demands from the World by John Piper
The Hidden Smile of God by John Piper

I couldn't find Humility: True Greatness by CJ Mahaney on CBCW's book table which I do want to buy. I will wait until I see it there and buy it.

The other twos I got from LifeWay bookstore were:
St. Augustine ~ The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Case for Christ ~ Lee Strobel

I am hungry to eat His Word in each books!

I am currently reading The Pleasures of God by John Piper that I got from the Anonymous this summer. WOW! What a book to read, and I am learning a lot in that. I will have to write a blog or two about this one.

Just letting you know that I am not a fast reader, but I am eating the books with His Word in them. I do know that I will learn a lot from reading all of this books. I am looking forward to write a blog or two for each books.

Hungry to eat His Word!
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Oh Give Thanks to the Lord...

This morning I was at Firestone to have my FORD (Fixed Often Repair Daily) fix. As I normally bring my Bible, and whatever book I am currently reading, and sometimes homework with me. I was devoting myself into eating His Word, and thinking about Him, and His goodness, and how thankful I am for Him. I was praying and thanking Him for the blessing that I don't deserve. Then I got When I don't desire God by John Piper and started to read again and reading His Word too. When I got to chapter How to Wield the World in the Fight for Joy "Using All Five Senses to see the Glory of God" then got to page 186. WOW!

John Piper pointed out the passage in the Bible that repeated over and over.

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures
forever! Psalm 106:1 ESV

This passage repeated over and over and you will see that in Psalm 107:1; 118:1, 29; 136:1; 1 Chronicles 16:34; 2 Chronicles 7:3; 5:13; and Ezra 3:11.

Are we giving Thanks to the Lord over and over like we ought to?

I know that He is so good and His steadfast love endures forever! He is so good to me that I don't even deserve this wonderful blessing and even for a small things that we don't even think about His blessing to us.

Let me share the blessing that I got over the weekend. This is what I wrote to my some of my church family by email:

I know that the Lord is so good to me even when I don't deserve this. This year had been a great year on dog food because I had been getting buy one and get one free at either Harris Teeter or Food Lion. It seems to come at the right timing for me to get some every time. Well, Harris Teeter started to do that again on Nov 14 to 20. I went on Friday the 16th, but they were out. Then I went again on Tuesday, 20th, and again they were out of it. This time I got the rain check because the sale would have gone out that night. This past Friday 23rd, I went to pick them up and pay for it. I got more than I excepted to get. This was my first time for the rain check. I was about to pay for the dog food which should be $13.49 without tax for one bag of dog food (cheaper at Food Lion). But she rang it up with another VIC sale over the buy one and get one free which makes double bargain, and I did question her about that because I didn't want to cheat on her or take advantage of that. She said this is right and told me about another sale (Nov 21 to 27). Guess how much I had to pay for it? I just need to pay just at $7.19 for just two big bags of dog food. That is what I call a real surprising blessing.

Can you see that the Lord is so good in that in every way?

Let us continue to Give thanks to the Lord for He is so good to us. As John Piper said "It does not say, Give thanks to the Lord, for He gives good things."

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

When I Don't Desire God by John Piper

I am currently reading a book that is When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy by John Piper. I have learn so much about how to fight for Joy as I am reading his book. It is full of biblical reasons as he had listed in his book, why we, believers need to fight for Joy in Christ. This is at sake!

I would encourage you all to read his book. I am so thankful for this book, and it is hard for me to put the book down. I haven't finish reading his book yet.

As I have seen other believer for Christ and myself, are like a walking zombie and not seeing His glory and not enjoying Him with Joy. We all do need to preach the gospel to ourselves and fight for the joy of knowing Him as our Personal Lord and Savior, and enjoying His glory that is being display in everywhere we go, and also enjoying the message of the gospel as we are eating His Word or hearing the pastor preaching His Word.

Are you delighting or eating in His Word with joy?
Are you delighting in His Glory with joy?
Are you so thankful for the Cross with joy?
This list can go on.

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ Philippians 3:8 ESV

to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21 ESV

Main thing that I don't know how to write a book review for this. There are so much to tell you. But I do want you all to read his book.

Anonymous: Thank you for this wonderful book! May the Lord Bless you always!

Hungry for Christ Alone,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

A Hunger for God: Part 2

I just finish reading A Hunger for God by John Piper. I am so thankful for this book, and it is a book that I really needed to read.

The chapter for Fasting for the Little Ones is a very sobering chapter about abortion in our nation.

There is a chapter about Fasting and the Course of History which is about other well known people, Jonathan Edwards and others who wrote about their experience in fasting and praying.

There is so much to read about Fasting and Praying in this book. I would encourage you all to read it or read it again if you had read it before. I know that I will need to read it again to remind myself how important fasting and praying is for us.

To get this book you can go to Desire God's link to order this: A Hunger for God.

I am looking forward to read another book and to write a blog about it too.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

A Hunger for God by John Piper

I am currently reading A Hunger for God by John Piper. I am not finish reading his book yet! This is the book that I really needed to read and am so thankful for John Piper's boldness to write this book. I do really want to share with you about his book without copying it down! I would encourage you all to get his book because it had taught me a lot of things. This is what I have observe:

Why are you fasting?

What are your motive or purpose for fasting?

Are you hungry for Him alone? or How hungry are you for Him alone?

There are many wonderful thoughts in his book about the true meaning of fasting. He also explain what Jesus was telling His disciples and others about true meaning about fasting, and the difference from traditional fasting and fasting for the Bridegroom. This book does have a lot of scriptures about fasting, and how we should be fasting for Him alone.

This book will test our heart and our motive for fasting. Only Jesus alone knows what kind of fasting we are doing and why we are fasting.

Back in the year of 2000, I did fasted for 40 days, but my motive wasn't for Him alone. My fasting was no computer games for 40 days. It was a good fasting because it did enable me to break my bad habit from playing computer games every day. I never went back to computer games again since then. That is a praise, but I wasn't putting Him first in my life like I should be doing.

So, this book had taught a lot about fasting for Him alone.

14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV

To: Anonymous, Thank you for this wonderful book!

I will write more about this when I either finish reading or find more that I need to write about.

Hungry for Him Alone,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

YEAH! John Piper's Books!

I want to thank the Lord for Anonymous who had blessed me with 3 of John Piper's book. I just have gotten them today at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson when Justin, my pastor gave me the box of the books. I don't deserve to get this wonderful blessing. Thank you, Anonymous. By the way, I don't know who Anonymous is, but I know that the Lord had blessed me with this through Anonymous.

I want to share with you how I have gotten this books by going to my Pastor's blog online. You will have to read the comments between BoldLion, Justin and the Anonymous.
Build Your Piper Library

3 books that I got are:
A Hunger for God
When I Don't Desire God
The Pleasures of God

I know that I will enjoy reading them, and I will look forward to write the book review of them if I can on this blog.

All I can say is Thank you, Lord for the Anonymous. May the Lord showers them with the blessing too!

In Christ Alone,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion