By God’s grace I’ve just started my final semester in seminary. I am taking Gospels and Puritan Theology and History. Our first assignment for Puritans was to read Richard Sibbes’ The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax. This book has been timely and soul stirring. You can find it online here. This is a great quote [...]
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C.S. Lewis on the Perfect Church Service
“The perfect church service would be one that we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.”
~ C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer, p. 4
I Love This Quote
“My conviction is that if one is willing to keep his Hebrew Bible before his eyes, a congregation of God’s people next to his heart, and the struggle of hermeneutics (i.e., what does this writer intend to proclaim to God’s people in his time, and how do I faithfully hold on to that intention and [...]
Sometimes Our Sinful Desires May Be The Least of Our Worries!
This is a good word from Ken Sande of Peacemaker Ministries:
It is often not what we want that is the problem, but that we want it too much. For example, it is not unreasonable for a man to want a passionate sexual relationship with his wife or for a mother to want to stay at [...]
Our Greatest Privilege
“I beseech, I entreat, I charge you to begin and continue the worship of God in your families from this day to the close of your lives… Consider family religion not merely as a duty imposed by authority, but as your greatest privilege granted by divine grace.†- Samuel Davies
(HT: Bryan Gaines)
Good Friday
From Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening (April 3rd):
Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce Him guilty; God Himself imputes our sins to Him, “the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all;†“He was made sin for us;†and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon [...]
John Calvin on the Cross
Calvin from his commentary on Galatians 6:14:
To glory in the cross of Christ, is to glory in Christ crucified. But something more is implied. In that death, — so full of disgrace and ignominy, which God himself has pronounced to be accursed, and which men are wont to view with abhorrence and shame, — in [...]
John Owen on the Cross
John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, p. 332:
Labor to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ. Consider the sorrows he underwent, the curse he bore, the blood he shed, the cries he put forth, the love that was in all this to your souls, and the mystery of the grace of God therein. Meditate [...]
Charles Simeon on the Cross
“Let all your joys flow from the contemplation of his cross.”
The Cross and Criticism
This article by rapper Curtis Allen has been circulating the blog and is a great example of humility in the face of criticism. In it Allen mentions this article by Alfred Poirier that is available here on the Peacemaker website. It is a great article that puts criticism in the right perspective - namely, in [...]
