Thoughts on Scripture and life
for the glory of Jesus Christ
A Definition of and Manifestations of Pride
Pride is competitive toward others, and especially toward God. Pride wants to be on top. Thomas Watson is quoted to have said, “Pride seeks to ungod God.”
Love or Die: Christ's Wake-up Call to the Church - Book Review
"It is not so much that their genuine virtues have squeezed love out, but that no amount of good works, wisdom, and discernment in matters of church discipline, patient endurance in hardship, hatred of sin, or disciplined doctrine, can ever make up for lovelessness."
Article Roundup: September 2016
Doctrine & practice, reading more, faithful wounds, living in the light of dying, Spurgeon on sin and shame, Ligonier poll.
Article Roundup: August 2016
Funeral prayer for a family of five, the cost of the cross, three keys to prayer, five marks of true repentance.
Article Roundup: July 2016
Social upheaval, sanctification, Heaven as home, the origin of Calvinism, and working well.
There's a Storm Coming
There is a storm coming your way. It cannot be avoided, and the surest way out is to sail straight through, in full assurance that the Lord is your Captain. This is an attempt to prepare you for the suffering that will come. Amidst the storm, we must cling to these seven truths.
The Reformation Martyrs: John Hooper
There is a movement within "contemporary Evangelicalism" to join hands with Rome. Yes, there are professing Protestants who wish to partner with those against whom their spiritual forefathers once protested! Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Knox, and the rest, if they could see what was happening on earth, would be in a holy rage.
Article Roundup: June 2016
Article Roundup for June 2016: hearing God through a sermon, humble leaders, forbidden phrases at funerals, and more.
For Freedom, Oppose California SB 1146 2016
If California voters pass this bill, it will mark the wholesale destruction of American society. I'm not given to hyperbole. America has reached, and passed, many tipping points, but after this goes, free institution as we know it, not just Christian institutions, will cease to exist.
Beholden to the Providence of God
"We are beholding to this providence of obstructing sin for our lives, our families, our estates, our liberties, for whatsoever is or may be dear unto us; for may we not say sometimes, with the psalmist, "My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the souls of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword" (Ps. 57:4)? "
Article Roundup: May 2016
Article Roundup for May 2016. Meekness, complaining, love & bragging, prayer to God our Father, and the prayer of faith.
Fix Your Eyes On the Cross of Christ
Shall we give entertainment unto that, or hearken unto its dalliances, which wounded, which pierced, which slew our dear Lord Jesus? God forbid! Fill your affections with the cross of Christ, that there may be no room for sin. The world once put him out of the house into a stable, when he came to save us; let us now turn the world out of doors, when he is come to sanctify us.
Article Roundup: April 2016, Part 2
Article Roundup: April 2016, Part 2. Our responsibility to the church, praying as discipleship, and finals.
The Advantage of Examining Indwelling Sin
"It were wished that we would all apply our hearts more to this work {of searching our own souls for indwelling sin}, even to come to a true understanding of the nature, power, and subtlety of our adversary, that our souls may be humbled..."
Article Roundup: April 2016, Part 1
Article roundup for April 2016 part 1. Life in light of death, holy joy, zeal in parenting, gospel, and possessions.
Article Roundup: March 2016, Part 2
Article roundup for March 2016, part 2. Spurgeon on sovereignty, which Jesus do you worship, what is God?, and more.
Article Roundup: March 2016, Part 1
Radical Christianity, persuasive apologetics, bad youth groups, and characteristics of a good church.
Article Roundup: February 2016, Part 2
Article Roundup for Feb 2016, part 2. Zeal, defending date nights, creedal Christology, and more.
Article Roundup: February 2016, Part 1
Article Roundup: February 2016, Part 1
Rain
The drops danced across the glass in gleeful disarray, slipping and sliding in every which way, hurrying to go everywhere and yet with nowhere to go. An ever-morphing constellation, spheres of crystal bending and shattering across the canvas of the window, they were at one moment companions of many, and the next rogue wanderers alone; their number was impossible to count, their pattern indecipherable, their beauty incomprehensible.