As of First Importance
I read a good chunk of 1 Cor this AM. This is what hit me hardest. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (emphasis mine) Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which...
View ArticleCareer move… Job change.
In case you hadn’t heard in other channels, I am leaving AOL to go to work for Desiring God. More details at mattheerema.com
View ArticleThe Lamb’s Book of Life
In Brad’s sermon on Hebrews 1:1-4 this last Sunday at Stonebrook Church, he started off by reading Revelation 20:11-15, in order to help us understand God as a sovereign judge, which is probably the...
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Meet Darrell Klaver
(Sorry for the poor photo quality, I’ll explain below) Darrell Klaver has been playing organ and piano at Community Church of Kamrar, Iowa for decades. CCoK is my wife’s “home church” (where she grew...
View ArticleThe Gun-Belt Gospel
Excellent post over at The Gospel Coalition blog about evangelism. The Gun-Belt Gospel at The Gospel Coalition Blog Three quick bullets (pardon the pun) from the article: The lost are not targets of...
View ArticleEd Stetzer Shares 7 Big Church Planting Mistakes
Some notes from Ed Stetzer’s talk at Catalyst. Worth a read. Ed Stetzer Shares 7 Big Church Planting Mistakes As a teaser, here are the 7 mistakes: check the article for the explanations. Forgetting...
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How to deal with conflict
Noel has created a helpful flowchart for dealing with someone who has sinned against you. I was expecting this to be humorous at first, but it ended up being very helpful. Check out his post and...
View ArticleWhat about the Lake Home?
I have had the book Desiring God by John Piper on my shelf for 6 years. I bought it for Nancy as a birthday gift 10 years ago when I barely knew Christ. It seemed like the thing to do at the time. I...
View ArticleMatt Chandler to Young Ministers
Why I love Matt Chandler. (From a message this morning to Southern Seminary.) “My plea to young ministers, over and over and over again, is a plea for holiness! To be holy men of God! If we had time...
View ArticleMy Winter Reading List
10 Books, 7.5 weeks. I haven’t calculated pages or chapters per day or anything like that yet. I’ll do that… soon. Check out the list. My Winter Reading List – Matt Heerema
View ArticleTozer on Possessiveness
I just finished reading The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer. It’s a short, but mind-blowing read. I’ll be posting excerpts here and there, but this one from chapter 2 particularly struck me. Check it out...
View ArticleMerry Christmas 2009!
We hope this finds you well, enjoying the pre-Christmas fun and chaos. Elena has been very excited about the coming of Christmas this year…last week she was exclaiming how the decorations at the...
View ArticleHow do I teach my kids an accurate view of God when I’m a sinner, too?
C.J. Mahaney wrote a great article in response to a parent’s letter asking this: I am afraid they (my children) do have hard thoughts of God and that’s largely because of my own sinfulness (anger,...
View ArticleWhy I didn’t “get” the gospel until I was sickened by the ugliness of my sin
After I saw this YouTube video today, I was thinking about my own experience of how seeing my sin more clearly has made me see the gospel in a completely different light. Dr. Piper says it so well: I...
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One of my top picks: The Jesus Storybook Bible
In my previous post I mentioned The Jesus Storybook Bible, by Sally Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Jago. I think that some of my friends might be tired of hearing me talk about it because I get so...
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My personal sushi chef
About three years ago, Matt came home from some far-and-away business travels all excited about eating sushi. I was definitely, um, hesitant to say the least about trying it, but after a taste, I...
View ArticleDreamhost Destroyed My Sites
After seven, long, happy years as a Dreamhost customer, the last straw has been added to the pile. A fileserver apparently crashed, losing all of my current data, along with my archived data....
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Welcome to the World, Anna Elizabeth
We’d like to welcome Anna Elizabeth Heerema to the world. Born June 2nd, 2011, 7:56am in Ames Iowa at Mary Greeley Medical Center. Vital Stats Sex: Female Height: 20″ Weight: 7lbs. 15oz Head: 14.5″...
View ArticleThe Bedtime Routine
Watched this video (below) about a man who read to his daughter every night until she went to college (doing their last reading session in the stairwell of her new Rutgers dorm). Pretty inspiring. He...
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Anna is 3 weeks old! (and a Heerema family update)
Today marks three weeks since Anna’s birth. She passed her birth weight (7 lbs., 15 oz.) at her 2 week appointment, weighing in at 8 lbs., 4 oz. which made her mama very, very happy since she had...
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