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In sports, debate rages as to whether some great team from a certain era could defeat a powerful team from another decade. What if we applied the same test to faith matters? How would this generation fare, when compared to the faithful of the past?
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.
What Would Moses Think?
June 4, 2009
These were all commended for their faith... Hebrews 11:39
Geerhardus Vos, in a sermon titled RUNNING THE RACE, called for a comparison of the faithful in his day, with those who had already finished the race:
In natural relations, we are not slow to take pride in our descent from those who have left an honorable record behind them in the annals of history, and we feel the obligations which such a connection imposes on us.
Why should it be different in the religious sphere? In the exercise of faith as well as in that of the natural virtues, we ought to feel the force of the principle noblesse oblige.
Sometimes we are altogether too much concerned with what the present world will say about us - whether it will regard us as progressive, enlightened and liberal; while too seldom considering what would be the historic judgment passed upon us by the church of the former ages if its great figures could gather around us and review the part we take in the making of the history of the present - whether they would be shamed or gladdened by our doings.
So let us, sometimes at least, endeavor to view our condition and performance in this light, and ask ourselves whether we can without shame and self-reproach allow the soundness of our faith, the purity of our life and the consecration of our service to fall below the attainments of any earlier generation in the church of God.
And on the other hand, thought the world may look down upon us as reactionaries and antiquated people, if we can conscientiously say that we have remained faithful to the principles which God himself stamped with his historic approval in the past, let us derive comfort from the thought that we do not walk alone, but are encompassed about on every side by an innumerable host of friends who will honor us as God has honored them.
Geerhardus Vos, in a sermon titled RUNNING THE RACE, called for a comparison of the faithful in his day, with those who had already finished the race:
In natural relations, we are not slow to take pride in our descent from those who have left an honorable record behind them in the annals of history, and we feel the obligations which such a connection imposes on us.
Why should it be different in the religious sphere? In the exercise of faith as well as in that of the natural virtues, we ought to feel the force of the principle noblesse oblige.
Sometimes we are altogether too much concerned with what the present world will say about us - whether it will regard us as progressive, enlightened and liberal; while too seldom considering what would be the historic judgment passed upon us by the church of the former ages if its great figures could gather around us and review the part we take in the making of the history of the present - whether they would be shamed or gladdened by our doings.
So let us, sometimes at least, endeavor to view our condition and performance in this light, and ask ourselves whether we can without shame and self-reproach allow the soundness of our faith, the purity of our life and the consecration of our service to fall below the attainments of any earlier generation in the church of God.
And on the other hand, thought the world may look down upon us as reactionaries and antiquated people, if we can conscientiously say that we have remained faithful to the principles which God himself stamped with his historic approval in the past, let us derive comfort from the thought that we do not walk alone, but are encompassed about on every side by an innumerable host of friends who will honor us as God has honored them.
