Grab Bag

A few resources I’ve found recently that have been helpful: “Devotions Aren’t Magic” — among other things, regular time with Christ cultivates delight in Him. Biblical Training recently updated its web page — and all the same very helpful resources are still there at no cost — including seminary level training.  A great resource. Some […]

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Impoverished believers

Mark Dever and Paul Alexander identify one of the things that makes a believer impoverished and weak in his spiritual life — and their assertion is in contradiction to the call of our day and culture: While our individual walks are crucial, we are impoverished in our pursuit of God if we do not avail […]

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Book Review: Heaven Taken by Storm

Title:  Heaven Taken by Storm Author:  Thomas Watson Publisher:  Soli Deo Gloria Books, 1992; 129 pp. $17.00 Recommendation (4-star scale):  One of my favorite Peanuts cartoons shows a series of panels in which Charlie Brown is seen alternately writing something and then crumpling it up and tossing it into a pile.  In the last panel, […]

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Book Review: Spiritual Disciplines

Title:  Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life Author:  Donald S. Whitney Publisher:  NavPress, 1991; 254 pp. $15.99 Recommendation (4-star scale):   “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting,” wrote G. K. Chesterton.  Rather, “It has been found difficult and left untried.” This could not only be said of the Christian life in […]

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A motivation for devotions

Do you ever feel unmotivated to open your Bible and read?  At times do you feel apathetic about your life of prayer?  The problem is not so much a lack of obedience as it is a waning set of motives for carrying out your spiritual disciplines. In his diary, Robert Murray M’Cheyne offers a succinct […]

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Grab Bag

Good stuff I’ve seen while meandering around the internet this week: Justin Taylor offers an overview of a number of recent articles in World on abortion The lead article on abortion in World by Marvin Olasky. CCEF (Christian Counseling & Education Foundation) has a new website, with additional resources, including articles, a blog, and audio […]

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A new year of Bible reading

The spiritual life is simple, though it is not easy. It is simple in that the means to growing in Christ is not complicated; it is not easy in that the discipline required to apply God’s grace is difficult (discipline requires self-control, which is not natural for the natural man). So how does one grow […]

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Trouble Arising Early to Pray?

Do you have trouble arising early in the morning to pray? This word of encouragement and exhortation from John Calvin is a good encouragement to continuance in the discipline of prayer: “Although we ought always to raise our minds upwards towards God, and pray without ceasing, yet such is our weakness, which requires to be […]

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Sunday Leftovers (4/22/07)

On the priority of a personal walk with God — If you are unhappy and discontent or even angry with God, it is the fruit of a heart that has fed too lightly and too little at the table of God — you have learned to be happy with things that cannot satisfy. Modern Christians […]

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