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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?
You And God's Word
July 8, 2008
Spending time in God's word has fallen on hard times. The computer screams for attention, our schedule is packed with "necessary" things, and our Bluetooth has got to be obeyed! Meanwhile, we are slowly starving to death spiritually, for the food we get for our souls is meager, mostly secondhand, and sporatic. What to do?
Jonathan Edwards had some helpful words that speak to the delight that awaits us if we will set aside time to be in God's word.
"You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore do not be contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he says as you can.
God has made you all reasonable creatures; therefore let not the noble faculty of reason or understanding lie neglected. Content not yourselves with...divine truth...you accidentally gain in conversation; but let it be very much your business to search for it, and that with the same diligence and labor with which men are wont to dig in mines of silver and gold."
Charles Spurgeon, that great London preacher from the late 1800's, had this to say about his time in God's word: "Ah this book, as I turn it over, wakes up many a memory, its pages glow with a light which I cannot describe, for they are set with stars which in my many hours of gloom have been the light of my soul. I did not then read this divine volume to find a text, but to hear my Lord speak to my own hear; I was not then, as Martha, cumbered with much serving, but as Mary, who sat at the table with Jesus."
John Newton urged that when we read scripture, we read it "not as an attorney may read a will, merely to know the sense, but as the heir reads it, as a description and proof of his interest."
So go for it. Turn off all technology, get alone in a room with you and your bible, shut the door, and pray with the psalmist: "Open my eyes, that I may see wonderful things in your law." Psalm 119:18
Jonathan Edwards had some helpful words that speak to the delight that awaits us if we will set aside time to be in God's word.
"You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore do not be contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he says as you can.
God has made you all reasonable creatures; therefore let not the noble faculty of reason or understanding lie neglected. Content not yourselves with...divine truth...you accidentally gain in conversation; but let it be very much your business to search for it, and that with the same diligence and labor with which men are wont to dig in mines of silver and gold."
Charles Spurgeon, that great London preacher from the late 1800's, had this to say about his time in God's word: "Ah this book, as I turn it over, wakes up many a memory, its pages glow with a light which I cannot describe, for they are set with stars which in my many hours of gloom have been the light of my soul. I did not then read this divine volume to find a text, but to hear my Lord speak to my own hear; I was not then, as Martha, cumbered with much serving, but as Mary, who sat at the table with Jesus."
John Newton urged that when we read scripture, we read it "not as an attorney may read a will, merely to know the sense, but as the heir reads it, as a description and proof of his interest."
So go for it. Turn off all technology, get alone in a room with you and your bible, shut the door, and pray with the psalmist: "Open my eyes, that I may see wonderful things in your law." Psalm 119:18
