It teaches me whole volumes of theology – these tender, timid girls treading upon the fears of death and the solemnities of the tomb as if they were roses strewn upon their bridal path. I never knew before how strong grace is, nor how easy it is for faith to walk upon the sea. My [...]
Archive for March, 2008
A Pastor’s Reflection on Death
Posted in Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Death on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the Lord’s Day (11)
Posted in Book of Psalms, For the Lord's Day, Psalm 139 on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To the choirmaster. A psalm of David.
O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my [...]
Assured of the Things He Knows
Posted in Assurance of Salvation, Charles Haddon Spurgeon on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is of no use to stand up and preach things that may, or may not, be true. I am charged with being a dreadful dogmatist, and I am not anxious to excuse myself. When a man is not quite sure of a thing, he grows very liberal; anybody can be liberal with money which [...]
On Meditation
Posted in Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Meditation on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The soul, in coming back to God, will be greatly helped by meditation…The soul feasts when it meditates. I am afraid these eager days leave little space for meditation, yet there is no exercise more nourishing to faith, and love, and all the graces. David says, “I remember thee; I meditate on thee.” A transient [...]
Christian Experience Enhances Assurance
Posted in Assurance of Salvation, Charles Haddon Spurgeon on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The young man who has known the Lord twelve months and experienced a great deliverance is sure that the Lord is to be trusted. But when he has passed twenty, thirty, or forty years of the same experience, his assurance will be doubly sure. To a believer in Christ, every day teems with providences and [...]
The Problem of Morality
Posted in Carl F. H. Henry, Morality on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, then, it is seen that the religious problem is basic. The denial of a supernatural world of unchanging spiritual reality involves also the objective validity of any pronouncements in those very areas in which man is supposedly unique, especially religion and morals. To deny that an external world of reality corresponds to his religious [...]
The Trouble With Secular Historians
Posted in G. K. Chesterton on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About half the history now taught in schools and colleges is made windy and barren by this narrow notion of leaving out the theological theories. The wars and Parliaments of the Puritans make absolutely no sense if we leave out the fact that Calvinism appeared to them to be the absolute metaphysical truth, unanswerable, unreplaceable, [...]
On Mormon Polygamy
Posted in G. K. Chesterton, Mormonism, Polygamy on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is inevitably something comic (comic in the broad and vulgar style which all men ought to appreciate in its place) about the panic aroused by the presence of the Mormons and their supposed polygamous campaign in this country. It calls up the absurd image of an enormous omnibus, packed inside with captive English ladies, [...]
For the Lord’s Day (10) – Resurrection Sunday
Posted in Book of Acts, For the Lord's Day, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was [...]
Jonathan Edwards on God’s Sovereignty in Salvation
Posted in Book of Romans, Jonathan Edwards on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the 250th anniversary of the death of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), who is still considered by most to be America’s most important theologian and philosopher.
What God’s sovereignty in the salvation of men implies. In answer to this inquiry, I observe, it implies that God can either bestow salvation on any of the children of [...]
