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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.
You And God's Word
July 8, 2008
Spending time in God's word has fallen on hard times. The computer screams for attention, our schedule is packed with "necessary" things, and our Bluetooth has got to be obeyed! Meanwhile, we are slowly starving to death spiritually, for the food we get for our souls is meager, mostly secondhand, and sporatic. What to do?
Jonathan Edwards had some helpful words that speak to the delight that awaits us if we will set aside time to be in God's word.
"You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore do not be contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he says as you can.
God has made you all reasonable creatures; therefore let not the noble faculty of reason or understanding lie neglected. Content not yourselves with...divine truth...you accidentally gain in conversation; but let it be very much your business to search for it, and that with the same diligence and labor with which men are wont to dig in mines of silver and gold."
Charles Spurgeon, that great London preacher from the late 1800's, had this to say about his time in God's word: "Ah this book, as I turn it over, wakes up many a memory, its pages glow with a light which I cannot describe, for they are set with stars which in my many hours of gloom have been the light of my soul. I did not then read this divine volume to find a text, but to hear my Lord speak to my own hear; I was not then, as Martha, cumbered with much serving, but as Mary, who sat at the table with Jesus."
John Newton urged that when we read scripture, we read it "not as an attorney may read a will, merely to know the sense, but as the heir reads it, as a description and proof of his interest."
So go for it. Turn off all technology, get alone in a room with you and your bible, shut the door, and pray with the psalmist: "Open my eyes, that I may see wonderful things in your law." Psalm 119:18
Jonathan Edwards had some helpful words that speak to the delight that awaits us if we will set aside time to be in God's word.
"You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore do not be contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he says as you can.
God has made you all reasonable creatures; therefore let not the noble faculty of reason or understanding lie neglected. Content not yourselves with...divine truth...you accidentally gain in conversation; but let it be very much your business to search for it, and that with the same diligence and labor with which men are wont to dig in mines of silver and gold."
Charles Spurgeon, that great London preacher from the late 1800's, had this to say about his time in God's word: "Ah this book, as I turn it over, wakes up many a memory, its pages glow with a light which I cannot describe, for they are set with stars which in my many hours of gloom have been the light of my soul. I did not then read this divine volume to find a text, but to hear my Lord speak to my own hear; I was not then, as Martha, cumbered with much serving, but as Mary, who sat at the table with Jesus."
John Newton urged that when we read scripture, we read it "not as an attorney may read a will, merely to know the sense, but as the heir reads it, as a description and proof of his interest."
So go for it. Turn off all technology, get alone in a room with you and your bible, shut the door, and pray with the psalmist: "Open my eyes, that I may see wonderful things in your law." Psalm 119:18
