December 2010
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On Acts 15
If God were to do this whole thing by himself, there would be no problem. If we were only pawns (less than that, likely), we couldn’t mess up the works. But God brought us into the partnership of the gospel. He showed us behind the curtain and gave us inheritance in the mystery and ministry. And so the work of the church is in fits and starts. Steps forward, steps back, steps sideways. And...
November 2010
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“In all such cases, the intent of the literary construction [of Ps. 114] is to...”
– Patrick Henry Reardon on Psalm 114 in Christ in the Psalms
August 2010
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“I wonder why are we so eager to chatter and gossip with each other, since we...”
– [A word on facebook from a medieval monk:]
Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, pg. 38
July 2010
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“Godliness consists not in a heart which intends to do the will of God, but in a...”
– Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections 348
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“O reader, if your heart was right with God and thus did not cheat yourself with...”
– John Flavel, quoted in Jonathan Edwards’ The Religious Affections; (I slightly updated the language)
May 2010
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“Rather, if thou desirest to look and find pleasure, look at thine own wife, and...”
– John Chrysostom (ht: Kairos Journal)
April 2010
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“[The pastor] needs therefore to become a technical, devotional reader. Every...”
– Dan Doriani on James 1:21
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“Indeed, I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is...”
– Andy Crouch, Culture Making, 200
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“All true Christians are God’s theologians, as the saving light of the...”
– John Owen
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“No English translation can be both precise and idiomatic.”
– Luke Timothy Johnson in commentary on Acts
March 2010
5 posts
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“…so observe [the Sabbath] as to keep the golden mean between the two...”
– AB Bruce, The Training of the Twelve on Jesus’ re-tuning of Sabbath observation
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The Broken Society →
By David Brooks in the NYT. Sane, clear voices are like a spring breeze sometimes. (ht: Daniel H)
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Hitchens vs. the Pope →
Note: explicit stuff in here…be warned.
What’s fascinating to me is how totally right Hitchens can be in pursuing the cause of justice and moral truth, yet be doing so without a reasonable foundation. For the true atheist, where do the standards of justice come from? Who’s to say that child abuse is wrong? So in this one I’m rooting for Hitchens but am glad to have the...
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“We’ve become a nation of voyeurs who feed off the offal of ruined lives....”
– Laurie Hall
“I believe the roots of clerical sloth are theological rather than primarily...”
– William Willimon, Proclamation and Theology, page 72 (ht: Carl Trueman)
February 2010
3 posts
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Tiger's new religion →
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“When the heart is enlarged with the sense of God’s goodness, the work of...”
– David Dickson on Ps. 9
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“A monastery without a library is like a castle without an armory. Our library is...”
– Monk, 1170a.d. (ht: James Emery White)
January 2010
2 posts
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McGrath on Calvin's contribution to science →
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The butt end. Harsh doesn't mean untrue. →
November 2009
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“In the poem, God holds a glass full of blessings. He pours it out on humankind,...”
– Nicolas Nedialko Nojarof, speaking of George Herbert’s poem The Pulley (ht: Ben)
October 2009
5 posts
9 years later-an early, damning, accurate review... →
“That many Roman Catholics, past and present, are true Christians, is a palpable...”
– Charles Hodge on Roman Catholic Christians, from a response on de regno christi (need to check source)
“True Christ-centeredness is, and ever must be, cross-centeredness. The cross on...”
– Mark Dever, JI Packer, In My Place Condemned He Stood
“From Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (Eerdmans, 1977), 123-4:
...”
– Sean Lucas on Ref21
Hollywood (vs.) Justice →
One of the best articles I’ve read in a long, long time. (Warning: a little graphic.)
September 2009
6 posts
“Personal salvation is not an event but a life. It is not something in the past...”
Dr. Blackwood's book on William Symington! →
“The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called “the...”
– Time magazine piece on Glenn Beck by David Von Drehle
“What dost thou know of God? How little a portion is it! How immense is he in his...”
– John Owen, On the Mortification of Sin, ch. 13
“Increasingly, the willingness to change one’s position on political issues...”
– Rudy Ruiz on cnn.com—He has something here. Not everything, but something.
August 2009
2 posts
“Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of...”
– John Owen, On the mortification of sin, pg. 41
Richard M. Gamble on the American Patriots Bible →
Many folks I know need to wrestle with this one: “There is no golden age of Christian America waiting to be rediscovered and reclaimed.”
July 2009
4 posts
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“Dear friend, have you found that trouble cuts the cords that tie you to earth?...”
– Spurgeon (ht: Challies) in Beside Still Waters
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America gained a billion pounds in 10 years. She... →
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WatchBill V. on the marrow controversy. Much application should be drawn from this for the contemporary church.
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“…any account of the atonement that fails to highlight its character as a...”
– JI Packer, In My Place Condemned He Stood, 96
June 2009
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“Many preachers use psychological manipulation without altogether realizing they...”
– (John White, Nehemiah – Excellence in Leadership, p111)ht:Colin Adams
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Acts 29 sermon evaluation form →
May 2009
7 posts
I saw Venus next to the crescent moon this morning on the way to work. Every once in a while it pays to get up early.
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Maybe the horse has already left the barn for the... →
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Ecclesiastical Technological Idiocy →
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Alistair Begg resources on preaching →
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Mahaney on Biblical productivity →
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The emerging church is dead or dying--what killed... →
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Porn Again--free book from Mark Driscoll (warning:... →
April 2009
6 posts
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Paper Pastors--this post made my day →
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“…it is customary with Paul to treat of the sacraments in two points of...”
– John Calvin on Galatians 3:27, “for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”
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Simeon Trust's Biblical Exposition Workshops (ht:... →