How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, You, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled? In every condition, in sickness, in health; In poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth; At home and abroad, [...]
June 2008
Yesterday, I read something I found convicting in my study on our responsibility in evangelism. Consider the words of R.B. Kuiper, in his book, God-Centered Evangelism: 1. One must have a clear understanding of the gospel for the simple reason that vagueness and confusion can neither convey truth nor command respect. 2. He must have [...]
“Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” This is what the text of the entire ESV Bible looks like: Via: The ESV Bible Blog
Dr. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was one of the most brilliant theologians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was a staunch supporter of the Reformed Faith and Calvinism, and he wrote extensively on the divine inspiration of the Bible. His wife Annie was nearly killed on their honeymoon and remained an invalid for [...]
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1, ESV) By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. (Psalm 33:6, ESV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word [...]
In that interesting encounter between Jesus and the paralytic given to us by Luke, we see a defining reminder of the relationship between evidence and faith, the temporal and the eternal. The friends of this paralyzed man did everything they could to bring him within the sight and touch of Jesus (see Luke 5:17-26). They [...]
Stephen Altrogge posted the following entry on his site yesterday. I can relate. Can you? If you could use one word to describe your current devotional life, what would it be? Mine would be “scraps”. So often I feel like all I can muster is a distracted scrap of devotion to God. For example, here’s [...]
God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it. —J.I. Packer Knowing God
From the “Wish I Was There” stack…
It takes supernatural power to be patient. That’s why Paul seems to go over the top in how he prays for our patience: May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy. (Colossians 1:11, ESV) But that glorious might makes its way into our attitudes [...]
