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Paradoxical Power
In a sermon called "Are We Willing To Drink His Cup?", Leonard Ravenhill makes an interesting observation about the expansion of the gospel through the world as captured in Wesley's hymn which includes...
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A Sober Reckoning of Faith
Samuel Rutherford was a sufferer for the cause of Christ in Scotland, and wrote many of his letters (the like of which I have yet to find any match for their beauty and power) from a prison cell in...
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Books Finished In October
1. Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax2. Henry Scougal, The Life of God In the Soul of Man3. Larry Crabb, Inside Out4. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (Audio)
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Gleanings from "The Bruised Reed" — Part 1
So. I finally finished Richard Sibbe's "The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax." I had been picking at it over the last year and a half. At first I read half of it, put it away for a while, and then...
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More Books Read in October
Dr. Michael Haykin: Revivals and Signs & Wonders: Some Evangelical Perspectives from the 18th Century John Owen, The Mortification of Sin In Believers (in progress) John Milton, Areopagitica (in...
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Remembrances of Rome
Although we did go to Rome on our honeymoon (briefly — bad trip planning on my part, we only went for 1 day...I should have given us more time there), this poem was written before I'd gone there, and...
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Gleanings from The Bruised Reed — Part 2
On Bruising For Sin"By bruising here is not meant those that are brought low only by crosses, but such as by them are brought to see their sin, which bruiseth most of all. When conscience is under the...
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Gleaning from The Bruised Reed — Part 3
Tenderness Toward Struggling Christians Exhorted"Insolent carriage toward miserable persons, if humbled, is unseemly in any who look for mercy themselves. Misery should be a lodestone for mercy, not a...
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Athanasius Against the World
Here is a moving passage from Dr. James White's article on the Council of Nicea, "What Really Happened At Nicea", describing the events leading up to and the aftermath of the Council of Nicea. This is...
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Every Proud and Lofty Thing
While reading Isaiah this morning, a noticed a pattern in the imagery that is so precise it cannot be but by design. The subject matter is the humiliation of all that exalts itself against the...
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A Poem Written On My Twenty-Fourth Birthday
Lack of an early masterpieceThere was no breeze to toss the rambling cloudsthe evening I turned twenty-four—Though reading Wordsworth’s Prelude aloudno wanton muses flocked my doorwith honeyed tongues...
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Gleaning From the Bruised Reed — Part 4
Signs We Are Smoking Flax Which Christ Will Not Quench"...if there be any light in us, it is kindled from heaven by the 'Father of Lights, who commandeth light to shine out of darkness,' 2 Cor. iv. 6....
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Which I Commanded Them Not
"Which I commanded them not, and which never came to my mind..."'This reason ought to be carefully noticed, for God here cuts off from men every occasion for making evasions, since he condemns by this...
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A Sonnet Series Written Many Years Ago
Lately Found Upon the Sea of Sorrow I When I consider this broad field of life where roam the citizens of earth's sad realm, I see grim...
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Revenge
Here's a powerful song by Jon Foreman with really unique perspective on the crucifixion, told in first person narrative style from the perspective of one of the thieves who was crucified with Christ....
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Ruling In the Midst of Enemies
It's a wonder sometimes how many phrases from the King James Bible are stuck in my head. Being the Bible I read for the first 7 or 8 years of my Christian life, almost all of my memory verses are from...
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Oneness Theology & Other Hereries
(Modalist/Oneness Distortion of the Trinity)There are a number of similarities I've noticed in the thinking of those who are trapped in cults, false religions, and those who have been duped by various...
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Mark Nenadov over at All Things Expounded has a valuable post on Poets and Theologians that is worth thinking about!
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Nothing Received But What Comes From God
John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven."(John 3:27)The life of John the Baptist is like a flash of lighting on the pages of Scripture. After the...
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To Fight the Good Fight of Faith
1 Tim 6:12: "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life..."Christians are here encouraged in this matter of warfare, to fight, to literally agonize, labour, and wrestle in this matter of...
View ArticleThe Fall of Detroit, the Sorcery of Babylon, and Redeeming the Time
It's funny how things are now transpiring in politics and economics that were predicted years ago by solid economists who were branded "conspiracy theorists" or "alarmists". Such people were mocked and...
View ArticleThe Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Here is a paper I wrote against the current doctrine and practice of the Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene) concerning how and when a person receives (1) the "seal of the Holy Spirit", or (2) the...
View ArticleHistory of the Bible (Texts and Translations)
Here is a link to the PDFs of a Keynote presentation (in three parts) I put together for the ACCN elders in Ontario, which I presented over the course of about 6 months in three...
View ArticleMark Nenadov On Tea, Manliness, and Church History
My friend Mark Nenadov from "All Things Expounded" has a great post over at Kuyperian Commentary:http://www.kuyperian.com/against-the-tea-totallers-tea-drinking-to-the-glory-of-god/
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