Thoughts on Scripture and life
for the glory of Jesus Christ
Noteworthy Christian Blogs, Part 1
The Cripple Gate, Albert Mohler, Challies, Grace To You, and Ligonier Ministries
Arrived - Enfield
Arrived by Enfield
Article Roundup: 2018.11.26
The Theology of Thanksgiving
Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery - Matt Boswell and Boyce College Choir
Live recording of "Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery", a powerful new congregational worship song by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa.
Article Roundup: 2018.11.19
Floral artist to Washington Supreme Court, , UC Berkeley campus senator abstains from a vote. Now students want her out, Soul Diagnostic: How to Know If You Are a Christian, Conversion: The Experience of Salvation
The Incarnation of the Triune God - John MacArthur
At Christmas, we are confronted again, and I’m sure you’re aware of it, with the sometimes very difficult task of separating the reality of Christmas from the clutter that surrounds that reality. There is so much confusion that sometimes you feel like the real Christmas story is like a diamond lost in a haystack. It just seems impossible to find. Christmas has really become a hopeless muddle of confusion.
A Mighty Fortress - HeartSong Cedarville University
Article Roundup: 2018.11.12
The Deceitfulness of Riches: 3 Lies Money Tells, Should I Tell My Spouse about Struggles with Sexual Purity?, Discipling a Generation Who Grew Up With Porn, The best of best for Psalm 119
His Mercy is More - Matt Boswell and the Boyce College Choir
Article Roundup: 2018.11.05
Ammai - Mother and Missionary, Leaving a Church, Churchless Christians, and Four Implications of Martin Luther's Theology
A Letter from the Editor: Echo of Glory is now The Art of Godliness!
What Makes Me A Christian
Christian knowledge, experience, doctrine, morality, deeds, etc. are indeed good. But they are the fruit, the results, and the evidences, not the substance. They are the harmonies and riffs, the tempos and the rhythms of the Christian song, but not the melody. Or, to put the question more bluntly, what is the sine qua non of Christianity?
Ten Years a Christian
Ten years ago this day, the Lord made me a Christian. If God had given me only salvation, and then misery and death the rest of my life, it would have been abundant grace and far more than I deserve.
But He has given me so much more.
Sayonara, 2017!
As I reflect on the year, the overwhelming sense is one of content satisfaction; it has been a good year. And thus, I must give all praise to the sovereign God, who has been exceedingly kind to me.
Calloused to the Word of God
This is terrifying. How does a man turn into a mere hearer? After all, he listens to the same word as the doer. He sits in the same church building, sees the same preacher, hears the same preaching, and might even take the same notes. He hears the points, the applications, the exhortations, and yet, he is a mere hearer; he does not do what the Word of God says. Why? Or rather, how?
Bible Study During a Revival
I was the first to leave, sometime between 12:30 and 1:00 A.M., as I still had some preparation to do for my class at 8:00 A.M. the next morning. The pastor assured me that this was a fairly normal Wednesday evening."
To Neglect To Pray
To neglect to pray is to neglect to breathe. To neglect to pray for His glory is to extinguish the fire in my soul. To neglect to pray for God’s favor and grace upon the day is to rely on my own wisdom and strength apart from Him. To neglect to pray for His people in my church is to ignore the saints He has given me to love. To neglect to pray that He would send His people into the plentiful harvest is to scorn His glorious name. To neglect to pray for God to save sinners is to surrender my yet-to-be-saved brothers and sisters to hell. To neglect to pray is to sin.
Do More Better - Book Review
Do More Better is Tim Challies' Christian answer to the productivity gurus of the business world. But, unlike them, his goal is not to help you get ahead, how to beat the system, or put in minimal effort to get maximum gains. Instead, as he says in the introduction, "I don’t want you to do more stuff or take on more projects or complete more tasks. Not necessarily. I don’t want you to work longer hours or spend less time with your family and friends. I want you to do more good. I want you to do more of what matters most, and I want you to do it better" (5).
What is Christian Contentment? (Part 2)
Contentment is chosen freely, in that "you will not only be content and quiet your hearts after a great ado, but as soon as you come to see that it is the hand of God" your heart will be content. It is not a forced submission, a "must" of duty. Rather if you are content you will say, "Readily and freely I will be content." And thus, contentment does not come through ignorance or an inability to feel or comprehend, but through eyes that understand and yet with sanctified judgment still chooses to be content.
What is Christian Contentment? (Part 1)
Burroughs he defines contentment as such: "Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition."