Thoughts on Scripture and life
for the glory of Jesus Christ
Reflecting On Death During the Holidays
Surrounded by merry tunes and twinkling lights, the sadness of the season is like a bitter taste that refuses to be undone. Why do cars crush the life out of their passengers? Why do infections invade the heart and the lungs and the brain? Why do college students die with no explicable cause?
Seeing Heaven in the Face of Death
Thus, eternal life is the end and fulfillment of all good things, for which God has purchased us through his Son. This is the goal on which our gaze should be fixed throughout our earthly pilgrimage. This is the treasure that we should unceasingly desire. This is the hour and the blessing to which all the plans and efforts of our lives should be inclined. ...This is our true country, our permanent city, in which our citizenship has been acquired by the merit of the death of Jesus Christ. This is the home that we long for, amidst the banishments, the weariness, the dangerous fears of this valley of misery and the shadow of death. This is the safe refuge and the beautiful harbor toward which we sail amidst so many waves and storms that constantly trouble the world. This is the blessed land where we will dwell by means of death.
Weekly Roundup: Reading the Bible, the Best Productivity, Facing Death, and Sacramental Confession
When Christians just don’t read the Bible, the best way to be productive, facing death with help from Dr. David Powlison, and the foolishness of requiring confession to a priest.
To a Saint on the Edge of Heaven
Article Roundup: September 2016
Doctrine & practice, reading more, faithful wounds, living in the light of dying, Spurgeon on sin and shame, Ligonier poll.
To Every Man Who Will Die
Let us not have to say in a hesitating way one to another, "I trust he is happy; he talked so nicely one day; and he seemed so pleased with a chapter in the Bible on another occasion; and he liked such a person, who is a good man."