All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. (Luke 10:22, KJV)
Archive for November, 2008
For the Lord’s Day (46)
Posted in Book of Luke, For the Lord's Day on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Contentment
Posted in Contentment, Thomas Watson on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Discontent is to the soul as disease is to the body: it puts it out of temper and greatly hinders its regular and sublime motions heavenward. For my part, I know not any ornament in religion that doth more bespangle a Christian or glitter in the eye of God and man than this of contentment. [...]
Advice on Personal Libraries
Posted in Personal Libraries on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Direction 1. Always reckon that the best book to be read, the first book to be read and, often, the only book to be read, is God’s book.
Direction 2. Give no credit to that opinion which holds bookishness in religion in suspicion or contempt.
Direction 3. Do not simply be a collector of books. Retain them [...]
For Thanksgiving Day
Posted in Book of Psalms, Psalm 100 on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, [...]
A Critique
Posted in Emerging Church Movement on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…not since the release of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ New World Translation of the Greek Scriptures in 1950 has there been a Bible that so blatantly mangles and distorts God’s Word in order to support a peculiar and aberrant theological agenda.
Chris Rosebrough, in his article on “The Vision,” a new “translation” of the Bible by proponents [...]
The Sanctification of Fallen Flesh
Posted in Systematic Theology, Thomas F. Torrance on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
However, while we must say all that about the flesh that the Word assumed, we must also say that, in the very act of assuming our flesh, the Word sanctified and hallowed it, for the assumption of our sinful flesh is, itself, atoning and sanctifying action. How could it be otherwise when He, the Holy [...]
Living in the House of God
Posted in Book of 1 Timothy, Joel R. Beeke, John Calvin on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let those who are appointed as ministers of the Word of God know that they not only deal with people, but are accountable to Him who has called them to this high office. Let them not be puffed up with the honor and dignity of their position, but know that they shall be so much [...]
For the Lord’s Day (45)
Posted in Book of Job, For the Lord's Day on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it. (Job 40:2)
Christ and the Thief on the Cross
Posted in William Guthrie on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are some brought in to Christ in a way yet more declarative of His free grace; and this is, when He effectually calls men at the hour of death. We find somewhat recorded of this way in that pregnant example of the thief on the cross [Luke 23:39-45). Although this seems not very pertinent [...]
Spurgeon on Richard Baxter
Posted in Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Richard Baxter on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baxter’s Reformed Pastor stirs my very soul whenever I read its glowing periods – those fiery thunderbolts which he hurls at the heads of idle shepherds and lazy ministers. I have read nearly the whole book through to those who are studying for the ministry in connection with this church, and often I have seen [...]
