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| Well I figure that it is about time to make a new post. It's been quite some time since I have had anything really important to say, but as of December 29th all of that has changed.
On December 29th, my prayers for a wife took another step toward reality. It was a beautiful winter day in Colorado near Hannah's grandparents house in Colorado Springs. Hannah and I strolled through their neighborhood looking for a place to hang out and talk about the Lord and his creation. It was there upon a neighboring rock that overlooked the city that the most wonderful woman that I have ever met said that she would marry me, of course that was after I proposed, but I'm sure that you already knew that. The date is June 10th and we are thrilled.
We thank you for your prayer and support, Lord willing, we will all be able to share in this joy together as Hannah and I journey toward a future that only our Savior can provide.
In Christ Alone,
Casey Hough | | |
| How I Learned of Grace
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by C. H. SPURGEON
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learned the doctrines of Grace in a single instant? |
Born as all of us are by nature, an "Arminian," I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the Grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, I thought I was doing it all myself, and though I sought the Lord earnestly, I had no idea the Lord was seeking me. I do not think the young convert is at first aware of this.
I can recall the very day and hour when first I received these truths in my own soul — when they were, as John Bunyan says, burnt into my heart as with a hot iron: I can recollect how I felt that I had grown all of a sudden from a babe into a man — that I had made progress in scriptural knowledge, through having found, once for all, the clue to the truth of God.
One week-night when I was sitting in the house of God, I was not thinking much about the preacher's sermon, for I did not believe it. The thought struck me, "how did you come to be a Christian?" (...I sought the Lord). But how did you come to seek the Lord? — (the truth flashed across my mind in a moment) — I should not have sought Him unless there had been some previous influence in my mind to make me seek Him.
I prayed, thought I, but then I asked myself, "How came I to pray?" — I was induced to pray by reading the Scriptures. I did read them; but what led me to do so? — Then, in a moment, I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that He was the Author of my faith; and as the whole doctrine of GRACE opened up to me, and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day, and I desire to make it my constant confession.
"I ascribe my change wholly to God." | | |
| Hey Guys and Gals,
It's good to be back at home, although I've never been to another part of the country that made me feel so at home and gave me a glimpse of what God-centered fellowship with strangers is all about.
God is doing a mighty work, a sovereign, work, and a glorious work in Minneapolis, MN with Desiring God Ministries and Bethlehem Baptist Church. They have a vision and they are doing everything within their power and then some, to accomplish it whatever the cost. Oh for us to suffer like that, oh for us to have a vision that is more than just a confession or affirmation, May our hearts be lit on fire by a pursuit for God that is more than just blasphemous lip service. Oh to see our neighborhoods reached, oh to shut up our mouths of complaining, oh to have more of Jesus Christ, that should be our vision.
Our books of doctrine, our confessions of old, our creeds of memory are all but garbage and flame to light men to hell without a burning desure to see them change our lives and the lives of others. Oh that God would have mercy on us and let us taste of this divine appointment of suffering, that others that are suffering might be reached because we ourselves are suffering with them. How will we reach the dirty with our clean white hands.....
Oh God Help Us to Suffer for the sake of reaching the lost and dying!!!
In Christ alone,
Casey Hough | | |
| Got two test tomorrow, so please pray for me. Thanks, I'll talk to you all later.
In Christ,
Casey
By the way, if you have a chance, pick up the new Cross Movement CD by Da T.R.U.T.H. | | |
| Pray for Tech
This campus is very lost and very hungry for something more than what they are experiencing now. You can see it in the peoples eyes, they are starved for love and attention, try to fill their God-shaped void with Greek letters, cigarrettes, sex, and academia. Only God can satisfy them, only God can save, and only a people a that are gripped by His grace will reach them. Pray for Tech.
-Casey- | | |
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