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In sports, debate rages as to whether some great team from a certain era could defeat a powerful team from another decade. What if we applied the same test to faith matters? How would this generation fare, when compared to the faithful of the past?
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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?
What Would Moses Think?
June 4, 2009
These were all commended for their faith... Hebrews 11:39
Geerhardus Vos, in a sermon titled RUNNING THE RACE, called for a comparison of the faithful in his day, with those who had already finished the race:
In natural relations, we are not slow to take pride in our descent from those who have left an honorable record behind them in the annals of history, and we feel the obligations which such a connection imposes on us.
Why should it be different in the religious sphere? In the exercise of faith as well as in that of the natural virtues, we ought to feel the force of the principle noblesse oblige.
Sometimes we are altogether too much concerned with what the present world will say about us - whether it will regard us as progressive, enlightened and liberal; while too seldom considering what would be the historic judgment passed upon us by the church of the former ages if its great figures could gather around us and review the part we take in the making of the history of the present - whether they would be shamed or gladdened by our doings.
So let us, sometimes at least, endeavor to view our condition and performance in this light, and ask ourselves whether we can without shame and self-reproach allow the soundness of our faith, the purity of our life and the consecration of our service to fall below the attainments of any earlier generation in the church of God.
And on the other hand, thought the world may look down upon us as reactionaries and antiquated people, if we can conscientiously say that we have remained faithful to the principles which God himself stamped with his historic approval in the past, let us derive comfort from the thought that we do not walk alone, but are encompassed about on every side by an innumerable host of friends who will honor us as God has honored them.
Geerhardus Vos, in a sermon titled RUNNING THE RACE, called for a comparison of the faithful in his day, with those who had already finished the race:
In natural relations, we are not slow to take pride in our descent from those who have left an honorable record behind them in the annals of history, and we feel the obligations which such a connection imposes on us.
Why should it be different in the religious sphere? In the exercise of faith as well as in that of the natural virtues, we ought to feel the force of the principle noblesse oblige.
Sometimes we are altogether too much concerned with what the present world will say about us - whether it will regard us as progressive, enlightened and liberal; while too seldom considering what would be the historic judgment passed upon us by the church of the former ages if its great figures could gather around us and review the part we take in the making of the history of the present - whether they would be shamed or gladdened by our doings.
So let us, sometimes at least, endeavor to view our condition and performance in this light, and ask ourselves whether we can without shame and self-reproach allow the soundness of our faith, the purity of our life and the consecration of our service to fall below the attainments of any earlier generation in the church of God.
And on the other hand, thought the world may look down upon us as reactionaries and antiquated people, if we can conscientiously say that we have remained faithful to the principles which God himself stamped with his historic approval in the past, let us derive comfort from the thought that we do not walk alone, but are encompassed about on every side by an innumerable host of friends who will honor us as God has honored them.
