Book Review: A Passion for God

Title:  A Passion for God:  the Spiritual Journey of A. W. Tozer Author:  Lyle Dorsett Publisher:  Moody Press, 2008; 189 pp. $14.95 Recommendation (4-star scale):  Shortly after beginning seminary, I purchased a small anthology of A. W. Tozer’s works.  I did not need to read long before I was taken by this writer.  I knew […]

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Book Review: Spectacular Sins

Yesterday evening I was telling Elizabeth that I’d read John Piper’s latest book, Spectacular Sins, on the plane trip to visit my Dad and brother this weekend.  “Spectacular sins?” she queried in response.  “Is John Piper still okay?” So I explained the title — it is not that he is inferring that the sins in […]

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Packer and Owen on mortification

Having written several blogs on the topic of mortification, and one specific review of John Owen’s masterpiece, On the Mortification of Sin, I was intrigued to read a short piece today by J. I. Packer on the influence of Owen on his own life. Packer has written several introductions to various Puritan works, along with […]

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Today’s Quote (8/27/08)

From one of my all-time favorite books, The Pursuit of Holiness (Jerry Bridges): We cannot escape the fact that God hates our sins. We may trifle with our sins or excuse them, but God hates them. Therefore every time we sin, we are doing something God hates. He hates our lustful thoughts, our pride and […]

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Sin’s delusion

From Thomas Fuller: Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: […]

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A few more thoughts about sin

As I was preparing for our study last night, I pulled my files on sin, and was going through the quotations and illustrations I have amassed over a number of years about sin and sinfulness. What I found was a large quantity of truths about sin said very succinctly and well. Since there was no […]

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Sunday Leftovers (7/6/08)

Yesterday I was attempting to make the point that our understanding of the weight and significance of our own sin is immeasurably weak. In a sermon recently preached at Resolved, John Piper expands that idea by illustrating how the weakness and frailty of the physical creation is designed to demonstrate to us the horror of […]

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Bridges on Respectable Sins

Jerry Bridges has been writing thought-provoking, challenging, stimulating, exhorting books for believers in Christ for about 25 years. Several of his books have been at the top of my “recommended reading” books for many years: The Pursuit of Holiness The Practice of Godliness Trusting God (republished in a shorter version as Is God Really in […]

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On the reasons for great sin

Dwight Edwards was the pastor of Grace Bible Church in College Station, TX until he failed morally and resigned several years ago. In the great grace of God, repentance was wrought in his heart, as he recently shared in his testimony (search using his last name to find the audio). What contributed to his failure? […]

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