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Recent Entries
Making Sense Of It AllJanuary 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Suffering Saints
January 25, 2012
We get nervous thinking about it - suffering for the sake of Christ. How necessary is it, and what does it produce in us?
George Herbert on Prayer Meetings
January 21, 2012
Prayer Meetings are a thing of the past. Or so it seems. What has been lost? Maybe more than we realize.
When Fear Is Good
January 7, 2012
NO FEAR, we are told. And the point is well taken. But fear can be healthy, at least when it comes to eternal matters.
Happy, Happy, Happy
January 4, 2012
The declaration of independence holds up the pursuit of happiness as a right. Did you ever consider the reading the bible might be the one source that will never let you down?
The Twelve Signs Of Grace
December 22, 2011
Self-examination is not easy to do. The tendency is to let ourselves off easy. But examine we must, for eternity is at stake.
"Ouch!!"
July 22, 2011
Spiritual pride is hard to detect. Jonathan Edwards gives some tips. The process can be painful, but necessary.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
November 6, 2008
Taste and see that the Lord is good. Psalm 34:8
Geerhardus Vos notes in his sermon THE WONDERFUL TREE that God longs for a relationship with Israel that involves "sublime abandon." God gives himself away with "neither restraint nor reserve."
"Using human language, one might say that God enters into this (his enthusiasm to have a relationship with us) heart and soul and mind and strength."
"Since God thus gives himself to his people for fruition, (he is the source of our fruitfulness) and his resources are infinite, there is no possibility of their ever craving more or seeking more of him than it is good for them to receive."
"To deprive religion of this by putting it upon the barren basis of pure disinterestedness (Vos is annoyed here by unnamed critics who assume that God could care less whether we commune with him or not), is not merely a pretence to be wiser than God; it is also an act of robbing God of his own joy through refusing the joy into which he has, as it were, resolved himself for us."
"So, far from being a matter of gloom and depression, religion is its true concept is an exultant state, the supreme feast and sabbath of the soul."
So how about you? Are you ready to say with the Psalmist "Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:23-24
Geerhardus Vos notes in his sermon THE WONDERFUL TREE that God longs for a relationship with Israel that involves "sublime abandon." God gives himself away with "neither restraint nor reserve."
"Using human language, one might say that God enters into this (his enthusiasm to have a relationship with us) heart and soul and mind and strength."
"Since God thus gives himself to his people for fruition, (he is the source of our fruitfulness) and his resources are infinite, there is no possibility of their ever craving more or seeking more of him than it is good for them to receive."
"To deprive religion of this by putting it upon the barren basis of pure disinterestedness (Vos is annoyed here by unnamed critics who assume that God could care less whether we commune with him or not), is not merely a pretence to be wiser than God; it is also an act of robbing God of his own joy through refusing the joy into which he has, as it were, resolved himself for us."
"So, far from being a matter of gloom and depression, religion is its true concept is an exultant state, the supreme feast and sabbath of the soul."
So how about you? Are you ready to say with the Psalmist "Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:23-24
