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Exclusivity of Jesus
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)
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God? Who Needs Him?May 31, 2013
Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Imago Dei
September 12, 2012
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
August 18, 2012
The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
July 23, 2012
To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
April 10, 2012
These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
February 11, 2012
What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Why God Will Not Tolerate Idolatry
October 15, 2008
You shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. Acts 17:16
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb
Of late conceived, and brought forth nothing ill)
Is now degenerated, and become a base adulteress
Whose false births do fill the earth with monsters,
Monsters that do roam and rage about, and make a trade to kill,
Now gluttony paunches; lust begins to spawn;
Wrath takes revenge, and avarice a pawn;
Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.
Francis Quarles EMBLEMS
“Idolatry is man’s device to shield himself from the living God. The religious instinct in man does not allow him to shake off all reference to the authority of God; hence the resort to idolatry, which allows men to appear to themselves religious at the same time that it enables them to follow their own inclinations.
The frightful representations of God found among the heathen do not prove their ignorance of God, but their unwillingness to have to do with the living and true God.”
"Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
Magic is full of superstition, and, after a fashion, full of the quasi-supernatural, but it is void of true religion. Because it lacks the element of objective divine self-communication from above, it needs to create for itself material means of compulsion that will bring the deity to do its bidding." George Bowen, missionary to Bombay (now Mumbai)
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb
Of late conceived, and brought forth nothing ill)
Is now degenerated, and become a base adulteress
Whose false births do fill the earth with monsters,
Monsters that do roam and rage about, and make a trade to kill,
Now gluttony paunches; lust begins to spawn;
Wrath takes revenge, and avarice a pawn;
Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.
Francis Quarles EMBLEMS
“Idolatry is man’s device to shield himself from the living God. The religious instinct in man does not allow him to shake off all reference to the authority of God; hence the resort to idolatry, which allows men to appear to themselves religious at the same time that it enables them to follow their own inclinations.
The frightful representations of God found among the heathen do not prove their ignorance of God, but their unwillingness to have to do with the living and true God.”
"Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
Magic is full of superstition, and, after a fashion, full of the quasi-supernatural, but it is void of true religion. Because it lacks the element of objective divine self-communication from above, it needs to create for itself material means of compulsion that will bring the deity to do its bidding." George Bowen, missionary to Bombay (now Mumbai)
