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You shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3
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.
Why God Will Not Tolerate Idolatry
October 15, 2008
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. Acts 17:16
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb
Of late conceived, and brought forth nothing ill)
Is now degenerated, and become a base adulteress
Whose false births do fill the earth with monsters,
Monsters that do roam and rage about, and make a trade to kill,
Now gluttony paunches; lust begins to spawn;
Wrath takes revenge, and avarice a pawn;
Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.
Francis Quarles EMBLEMS
“Idolatry is man’s device to shield himself from the living God. The religious instinct in man does not allow him to shake off all reference to the authority of God; hence the resort to idolatry, which allows men to appear to themselves religious at the same time that it enables them to follow their own inclinations.
The frightful representations of God found among the heathen do not prove their ignorance of God, but their unwillingness to have to do with the living and true God.”
"Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
Magic is full of superstition, and, after a fashion, full of the quasi-supernatural, but it is void of true religion. Because it lacks the element of objective divine self-communication from above, it needs to create for itself material means of compulsion that will bring the deity to do its bidding." George Bowen, missionary to Bombay (now Mumbai)
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb
Of late conceived, and brought forth nothing ill)
Is now degenerated, and become a base adulteress
Whose false births do fill the earth with monsters,
Monsters that do roam and rage about, and make a trade to kill,
Now gluttony paunches; lust begins to spawn;
Wrath takes revenge, and avarice a pawn;
Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.
Francis Quarles EMBLEMS
“Idolatry is man’s device to shield himself from the living God. The religious instinct in man does not allow him to shake off all reference to the authority of God; hence the resort to idolatry, which allows men to appear to themselves religious at the same time that it enables them to follow their own inclinations.
The frightful representations of God found among the heathen do not prove their ignorance of God, but their unwillingness to have to do with the living and true God.”
"Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
Magic is full of superstition, and, after a fashion, full of the quasi-supernatural, but it is void of true religion. Because it lacks the element of objective divine self-communication from above, it needs to create for itself material means of compulsion that will bring the deity to do its bidding." George Bowen, missionary to Bombay (now Mumbai)
