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ht: Dead Man Blogging
What will be this wretch’s shame at the last great day when, before assembled multitudes, the apostate shall be unmasked?…No greater eagerness will ever be seen among Satanic tormentors, than in that day when devils drag the hypocrite’s soul down to perdition. Bunyan pictures this with massive but awful grandeur of poetry when he speaks [...]
Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
-William Gurnall
ht: A Puritan at Heart
A Biblical Understanding of the Good News is, according to Mark Dever, one of the marks of a healthy church. What is the good news? Is it “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life”?
Gospel Basics
The Gospel is not the news that we’re okay. It’s not the news that God is love. [...]
We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is of him. If we seek any other gifts of [...]
“Yet, without true Christians loving one another, Christ says the world cannot be expected to listen, even when we give proper answers. Let us be careful, indeed, to spend a lifetime studying to give honest answers. For years the orthodox, evangelical church has done this very poorly. So it is well to spend time learning [...]
Heidelberg Question 1:
Q. What is your only comfort in life and death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood, and has set me free from all [...]
The Sharp-shinned Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. They range in size from 10 to 14 inches and have a wingspan from 20 to 27 inches with males actually smaller than the females. The Sharp-shinned Hawk also sports a hooked beak and curved talons that are characteristic to this family. Seen circling or swooping at low altitudes it is very [...]
Outstanding! Thanks to Erik Raymond the Irish Calvanist.
John 12 is a terrific passage. It gives a keyhole into the affections of the throne room. The Lord Jesus is ‘troubled’ that is he is greatly disturbed and grieved in view of Calvary. But he does not shrink back from his divinely ordained course, rather he hearkens a [...]
Here’s an email from John Hughes:
It has recently come to the attention of Wayne Grudem and myself that an illegal copy of his Systematic Theology has been posted on the Internet and that word of this, along with links to the site where the illegal copy is posted, has found its way to many Christian [...]
Over the past several years, the term intelligent design has undoubtedly become a buzzword in our culture. The ID Movement is now recognized as a formidable foe to Darwinism in the culture war taking place over the origin of the universe and mankind. Consequently, many Bible-believing Christians have been quick to jump on board with [...]
Thanks to Brett Harris at The Rebelution
Recent Comment: What I would like to know is your view of 1 John 5:3 which states: “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.” You say that following Christ is hard, but worth it, and yet here we [...]
Thanks to Adrian Warnock for this sermon!
Listen People God Killed
From John Piper at Desiring God Ministries…
I heard Collin Hansen say in an interview that John Piper is not an innovator.
I hope I can live up to that tribute. I would like it to be true. I am very happy with the simple role of blowing the boredom out of people’s brains with long-forgotten, old-fashioned, [...]
Thanks to Cameron Buettel!
I must confess that I am intensely frustrated at so many mega church pastors signing on to the “Evangelical Climate Initiative”. Pope Al Gore clearly holds a lot of sway these days with 85 evangelical leaders jumping onto his global warming train. Let’s just hope that it’s a train with a carbon [...]
