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Blog Bio

Pastor's Name
Clyde E. Leonard

Family
Wife Genie (above) both of our former spouses are deceased.  Together have six daughters and fifteen grandchildren.

Occupation
Transitional Pastor Hickory Hill Baptist, a Transitional Pastor helps the church prepare to call a permanent pastor.

Hobbies
Gardening, cars, helping people.

Greatest Desire

To serve the Lord Jesus Christ by serving people.


Past Ministry

Served both as bi-vocational pastor and full-time pastor of several churches in Missouri and Texas.  Served for eighteen plus years as the Church Planter Leader for Missouri Baptist Convention.

 

 

Rebels Redeemed Blog

Entries in Finally Alive (1)

Saturday
Jan312009

Expecting a New Book

John Piper is at it again! He has turned one of his more recent sermon series on the New Birth into a book called Finally Alive (not yet released).

The following quotes from the forthcoming book demonstrates one of the many reasons I love Piper. He is clear, concise, and accurate:

Your act of believing and God's act of begetting are simultaneous. He does the begetting and you do the believing at the same instant. And—this is very important—his doing is the decisive cause of your doing. His begetting is the decisive cause of your believing. (102)

I'm headed to Minneapolis Sunday actually to a conference hosted by Piper and Desiring God so I hope to get a sneak peak of this book. It looks very promising. In the debates over Calvinism, I find that many Arminians have not wrestled with how exactly the new birth takes place.