Gleaning #3: The Bible’s Theology of the Heart

While American marketing and the larger pop culture advertises the human heart as the seat of foolish, comedic and temporary lust (culturally synonymous with love), the Bible reveals a more comprehensive understanding.  The heart, while remaining tied to the affections, is the seat of the person’s thought life, his or her inner life, the character, [...]

Give Thanks In All Circumstances

Really?  This is what Paul writes to the church at Thessalonica in his first letter (5:18).  It is part of a rather incredible triad of amazing “really?” verses.  ”Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”  So, yes, really!
This morning as [...]

Spurgeon’s Conversion

Mark Dever, commenting on the importance of a reference to Numbers 21:8-9 cf. John 3:14-15 in the conversion of Charles Spurgeon, writes and, then, quotes:
The great preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon came to a saving knowledge of Christ when, during a snowstorm, he stumbled into a primitive Methodist chapel and heard a laymen expounding on another [...]

Death is not Dying: A Faith that Saves – The Testimony of Rachel Barkey

In the midst of her cancer, she speaks to the surpassing greatness of God in and through Jesus Christ: and in doing so displays the true power of the Gospel – a transformed life that rejoices in the supremacy of Christ . . . even when dying.  A powerful message.  Go here to view here [...]

An Outline of “Why is God a Stranger in the Land?” by Robert Murray M’Cheyne

“O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?  Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save?  Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst [...]

The God-Centeredness of Joseph

In a recent reading of Genesis 37-50, I noticed that Joseph lived with a relentless God-centeredness.  The following are some of the passages and related themes where the Israelite hero exhibited his godly worldview – a worldview, an entrancement we should pray to have, having now more fully seen the glory of this God in [...]

Are We Old or Are We New?

The following is a post by my dear friend, Todd Morikawa.  In the providentially ordained amount of time that I have had to come to know Todd, I have been supremely convinced that he believes what he here writes, not because he can explain it so well, but because his manner of life is lived [...]

A Model of Puritan Evangelism

All of Christ is accepted by the sincere convert.  He loves not only the wages but the work of Christ, not only the benefits but the burden of Christ.  He is willing not only to tread out the corn, but to draw under the yoke.  He takes up the commands of Christ, yea, the cross [...]

The Nature of Conversion and Biblical Evangelism

From Matt Click’s site.

In Honor of John Richard Mahon

The following is the manuscript and eulogy that I delivered this past Thursday at my grandfather’s funeral (worship) service.  I post it here in hopes that the Christ in this man may be an encouragement to your own soul, and that you may walk likewise in a manner worthy of the Lord.  It is with [...]