Gather yourselves together in solemn exercises of religion; especially in times of public calamity and common danger. Persons may be helpful one to another, God sometimes expects unanimous votes which make a great sound in His ears. Many combustibles make a great blaze; grapes put together ripen one another. Is communion of saints good in [...]
When the sun is gone all the candles in the world cannot make it day.
Sin is a ill guest, for it always sets its lodging on fire.
To fix our confidence upon a dying world is folly. It is as if we were building our nests when the tree is being cut down, or decorating our [...]
could I spend this time no better?
are there better books that would edify me more?
are the lovers of such a book as this the greatest lovers of the Book of God and of a holy life?
does this book increase my love to the Word of God, kill my sin, and prepare me for the life [...]
OH LORD,
We rejoice in another Lord’s Day
when we call off our minds from the cares of the world
and attend upon thee without distraction;
Let our retirement be devout,
our conversation edifying,
our reading pious,
our hearing profitable,
that our souls may be quickened and elevated.
We are going to the house of prayer,
pour upon us the [...]
Sin is arguably the greatest power in existence but for the power of God himself. It is not only an evil but an infinite evil. It is a universal evil. Sin is not only wrong but totally wrong. It is not merely against God but absolutely and entirely against God. Sin is [...]
I never wanted to follow Jesus, He rescued me!
This reflects Jonathan Edwards and other Puritan’s view that man’s will is bound by sin - humanity is hostile to God & left to ourselves would never seek after God. Grace means God first gives us a new heart that desires to follow Him, [...]
There is … the very real possibility in every Christian that he will learn to live at a distance from the love of Christ. Our corruption works in us a constant tendency to withdraw from Christ into the shadows. Days and even months can go past in the experience of the Lord’s people in which [...]
This morning in Bible Study, we read the following passage from Isaiah 58:13-14:
If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your [...]
Its funny how, when looking for instruction in the faith, we tend to favor remote sources while neglecting our local brothers and sisters in Christ. No doubt, RC Sproul, McArthur, Ligon Duncan, and other famous teacher/preachers are gifted and we can learn from them but two questions seem obvious:
1) Who holds these ‘remote’ sources accountable, [...]
We don’t know who wrote this psalm but we know that he was a man suffering through trouble or trial along with the failing health associated with advanced age. (Psalm 71:9; 18)
Psalm 71:1 - 6 he reminds himself (and us) of God’s work of grace throughout his life.
Psalm 71:7 is interesting - ‘portent’ implies that [...]
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