When God waits for a thousand years to accomplish a purpose of His own, He does not wait a long time. He waits only for “one day.” That is, His purposes are not compromised by a delay of a thousand years, nor are they enhanced by the delay. In fact, what are a thousand years […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (2/15/09)Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of Repentance: Worship is increasingly becoming a spectator event of visual and sensory power, rather than a verbal event in which we engage in a deep soul dialogue with the Triune God.… There was a time when four simple words were enough to bring out goose bumps on the neck of […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worship (Ferguson)John Frame, The Doctrine of God: God prevents fallen men from doing all the wrong they could do. He places a mark on Cain, so that others will not take his life (Gen. 4;15). He confuses the languages of men during the building of the tower of Babel, lest “nothing they plan to do will […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Common Grace (Frame)John MacArthur, Matthew 1-7: When our spiritual hunger and thirst are genuine they will make no conditions; they will seek and accept God’s righteousness in whatever way He chooses to provide it and will obey His commands no matter how demanding they may be. The least of God’s righteousness is more valuable than the greatest […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Righteousness (MacArthur)Augustine (quoted in Discipleship Journal): Do not imagine that you love your children when you never discipline them, or that you do not [sic] love your neighbors when you never admonish them. This is not love but mere weakness. Let your love be eager to correct, to reform. If there is good behavior, let it […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Parenting (Augustine)Os Guinness and John Seel, No God But God: …idols will inevitably involve self-centeredness, self-inflation, and self-deception. Idolatry begins with the counterfeiting of God, because only with a counterfeit of God can people remain the center of their lives and loyalties, autonomous architects of their futures. Something within creation will then be idolatrously inflated to […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Idolatry (Guinness & Seel)I guess I should be paying more attention to the big game this evening. Or at least the ads. It seems that there is not just entertainment value in the commercial fare, but there is a sermon or two to be found in those messages. At least so thinks one pastor. Pastor Ken Diehm of […]
Read More On sermons and Super BowlsGod is a jealous God. And Joshua 24:19 states that He is not only a jealous God, but He is a holy God. God is jealous for holiness. That is, He loves and preserves holiness. He loves His own holiness, and He loves holiness in His people. That was the reason Joshua challenged people when […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (2/1/09)John Frame, Worship in Spirit and Truth: …worship is honoring someone superior to ourselves. It is therefore not pleasing ourselves, but pleasing someone else. Immediately the question How can worship be made better? has a focus: better not primarily for ourselves, but better for the one we seek to honor. It may be that worship […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worship (Frame)John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1.11.8): …man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.…Man’s mind, full as it is of pride and boldness, dares to imagine a god according to its own capacity; as it sluggishly plods, indeed is overwhelmed with the crassest ignorance, it conceives an unreality and an […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Idolatry (Calvin)Back when I started this blog, a friend asked if it would be possible to receive it by email. At the time I knew of no automated means to do that, and sending emails manually for each entry seemed too cumbersome to me, so there we were…. Today, as I was searching for an answer […]
Read More Subscribe to this blog by emailGood 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 […]
Read More Grab BagRichard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed: When we find our souls at all declining, it is best to raise them up presently by some awakening meditations, such as the presence of God, of the strict reckoning we are to make,of the infinite love of God in Christ and the fruits of it, of the excellency of […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Restoration (Sibbes)Every pastor is asked on a somewhat regular basis, “how can I pray for you?” Keith and I are no exception. Recently, pastor Ligon Duncan put together a list of seventeen things to pray for your pastor(s). Pray — That [your pastor] would know and love the living God, would have a saving interest in […]
Read More Praying for your pastorsSteve Lawson, The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards: [Jonathan] Edwards possessed a rare combination of Reformed theology, extraordinary giftedness, and fervent piety. However, it was this latter virtue — his true spirituality, marked by a fixed resolve — that positioned him to be used so mightily by God. Few have equaled his relentless pursuit of […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Spirituality (Lawson)
Words of Grace 