With this weekend being our men’s conference — “The Reason You Live,” I’ve been thinking about a variety of topics related to men and manhood. In the course of my thinking and perusing files, I came across this list of qualities compiled by Al Mohler several years ago about the indicators that a transition has […]
Read More The marks of manhoodJ. C. Ryle: “A Call to Prayer:” Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too. (HT: […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Prayer (Ryle)George Mueller: The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Read More Today’s Quote – Anxiety (Mueller)George Mueller: For more than half a century, I have never known one day when I had not more business than I could get through. For 40 years, I have had annually about 30,000 letters, and most of these have passed through my own hands. I have nine assistants always at work corresponding in German, […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Prayer (Mueller)Title: John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology Editor: Burk Parsons Contributors Include: Jay Adams, Jerry Bridges, Sinclair Ferguson, Michael Horton, Steve Lawson, John MacArthur, Philip Ryken Publisher: Reformation Trust, 2008; 257 pp. $19.00 Recommendation (4-star scale): This year, in honor of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth, I have focused more […]
Read More Book Review: John CalvinWhen we do not pray, there are a multiplicity of reasons that we offer for our waywardness: busy-ness weariness apathy and distractions lack of knowledge about what (or how) to pray sin May I suggest also that one primary reason we do not pray is because we either do not know or do not believe […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (11/8/09)Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Unsearchable Riches of Christ: …as Christians let us always remember that the Name that is on us is the Name of God, ‘from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named’. What matters is no longer the family of David, no longer this tribe or that tribe, no longer […]
Read More Today’s Quote – God’s family (Lloyd-Jones)I didn’t have my radio on most of the day yesterday, so I heard no news during the day. On my drive home I was listening to a sermon, so I likewise missed the news. So when I got home one of the girls said something about Fort Hood, and I was confused about what […]
Read More Another violent tragedyMark Galli, “Yawning at the Word:” Whenever the Bible is read, a hush should come over us. We should be inching toward the edge of our seats, leaning forward, turning our best ear toward the speaker, fearful we’ll miss a single word—the deeds and words and character of Almighty and Merciful God are being revealed! […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (Galli)Title: Disciplines of a Godly Man Author: R. Kent Hughes Publisher: Crossway Books, 2009; 304 pp. $15.99 Recommendation (4-star scale): There are a variety of reasons that people fail to live disciplined lives — laziness and apathy, fleeting awareness of the cost of feeble discipline, weakness and immaturity, lack of a role model, and sometimes, […]
Read More Book Review: Disciplines of a Godly ManJohn Calvin, quoted in John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology: For what can be more awfully tormenting than to be constantly racked with doubt and anxiety? And we will never be able to arrive at a calm state of mind until we are taught to repose with implicit confidence in the providence […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Anxiety (Calvin)J. W. Alexander, Remember Him: The greatest care is necessary in an affair so important as the examination of your state before God. You will naturally be reluctant to come to an unfavourable conclusion about this and so self-love combined with self-ignorance will expose you to the danger of self-deception. Earnestly endeavour to exercise a […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Self-Examination (Alexander)Title: Remember Him Author: J. W. Alexander Publisher: Banner of Truth (reprint), 2000; 56 pp. $5.00 Recommendation (4-star scale): For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. (1 Corinthians 11:26) Those words by the apostle Paul are familiar to believers, who likely […]
Read More Book Review: Remember HimChristianity Today editorial, “Just Married?”: In the context of this privatized understanding of marriage, in which the institution is valued for its tax value and its health-insurance implications, it is no wonder that gay activists are making their bid for its benefits. If marriage is merely the private choice of two individuals to enter into […]
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