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每周二晚上在尖沙咀浸信会教堂都有唐崇荣牧师的讲道。每周二他都会从雅加达飞来香港，如此讲了9年，系统性地讲解《圣经》，现在讲到《约翰福音》——很多内容都是我自己思考不出的，《圣经》是一部生命书，我们的神是又真又活的。我非常喜欢唐牧师，可以说，一次不去就会想他，两次不去就开始难受。神的话语给人力量，给人盼望，给人生命。
唐牧师的讲道总是那么精彩，那么引人入胜，当然焦点永远是耶稣基督并他钉十字架。昨天有一句话非常的扎心：心里刚硬的人，对于神的话语不会有感动，甚至会感到厌恶；对神的恩典没有感动的人，甚至把恩典当成贱品。基督徒是谁呢？Christians are those ordinary people who have the extraordinary message to the world.我们都是再平凡不过的人，但是我们对于这个世界有着不平凡的信息，就是耶稣基督为我们的罪死。他接着说：今天有很多的基督徒也轻看自己的位份，你们有没有想过，你们随随便便可以听到的，是多少人永远也听不到的！——我内心感到很惭愧。扪心自问，我是不是爱神多过一切呢？我有没有在真理上向下扎根，好好装备自己呢？在这样一个信息自由的环境，我本可以更好地学习神的话语。愿神怜悯我，不要白占地土。要学习腓力，平时下足功夫，顺服主命。
以后陆续向众弟兄姊妹推荐英文讲道网站，今天首推http://www.desiringgod.org 。里面很多的sermon与article资料都可以免费下载传阅。John Piper是一位出色的神学家。在网站Resource Library里有John Piper自1980-2008的所有讲道。而Blog则是他的reflection,非常有启发性。“This week's sermon”是《诗篇》。其中他问“你们每天早上起来都会做什么？多少人是被这个世界迷惑，又有多少人警醒祷告呢？”——我再次感到惭愧。John Piper在这篇讲道结束的祷告中说愿神祝福所有听到的人都可以被神的话语所感动，所激励。我想神一定听了他的祷告，至少我内心被大大地激励，在神面前悔改。他在接下来的几周都会围绕诗篇讲道，感兴趣的弟兄姊妹可以关注。地址是http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/
《诗篇》如此美妙，我们不能再忽视神的礼物了！从今天至礼拜日，我打算每日依次背诵《诗篇》第1篇，第16篇，第30篇，第40篇，第121篇。弟兄姊妹们， 如果你有感动，我邀请你与我一同领受天父如此甘美的祝福。让我们昼夜思想神的话语，成为有福的人！愿神祝福他自己的话语！
以下是John Piper在Blog中写的《对于缅甸风灾的6种回应》，我想也同样可以作为面对四川地震的回应：
May 6, 2008 | By: John Piper
Category: Commentary
As the carnage from Cyclone Nargis moves toward 50,000 dead and beyond, there is a way to pray and act:
1. Be softened to the pain nearby.
The Good Samaritan knew nothing of the calamities in first century Burma, but was commended by the Lord for mercies at hand (Luke 10:25-37).
2. Pray for the followers of Christ in Myanmar:
- That they would be still and know that God is God (Psalm 46:10; 100:3).
- That they would be awakened from the illusion that this life is long or sure or the main point of eternal existence (James 4:14).
- That they would be given a new vision of the supreme value of Christ who promises his followers that famine, nakedness, and death will not separate them from his love (Romans 8:35).
- That God would meet their needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus, so that they might have to give to those in need (Philippians 4:19; Ephesians 4:28).
3. Pray for the millions of unbelievers near the calamity and far from it:
- That they would see the helplessness of man before the Power that rules the world and fly to Christ who alone delivers from the final cyclone of God’s wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10).
- That they would not respond like the people in Revelation (9:20; 16:9, 11) who did not repent at the devastation but cursed God.
- That they would hear the best news in all the world—not the news of health, wealth, and prosperity in this world, but the news that Christ became a curse for us (Galatians 3:13) so that in him we can be more than conquerors in every calamity of life (Romans 8:37).
4. Pray for those of us who live in the seeming security and prosperity of America:
- That we would see what is about to break over us in due time—either collectively as God removes the hand of his providential restraint, or individually as one by one we are whisked to the hospital, then wheeled to the nursing home, and then carried to the funeral home (Hebrews 9:27).
- That millions would be made to see this and repent from the adultery of treasuring anything more than Christ (James 4:4).
5. Give money to replenish the coffers of compassion “since you also are in the body” (Hebrews 13:3).
6. Muster a team from your church, and when the doors are open, be ready to go.
This kind of going always has the promise of a special, “I will be with you to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).
愿“神州大地”真正成为“神的大地”。愿神照着他的怜悯和慈爱恩待中国！
