February 2011
14 posts
Hope For the Hopeless
From an interview with Bob Kauflin:
I would read Scripture. It didn’t make sense to me. It didn’t affect me. I remember lying at bed at times just reciting the Lord’s Prayer to myself over and over and over, hoping that would help. I couldn’t sleep; then at times all I wanted to do was sleep. I remember saying this early on: “God, if you keep me like this for the rest of my life but it means...
“Looking at both digital memory and analog devices, the researchers calculate...”
– (Justin Taylor -> Joe Carter)
“Comfort your soul with three plain conclusions:
(1) Every event is the product...”
– William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor
““To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*1018 instructions per second...”
– from The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information
“Better is the little that the righteous has
than the abundance of the wicked....”
– Psalm 37:16-17
“It sounds backward, but the path to holiness is through (not beyond) the grace...”
– Dane Ortlund
2 tags
“…the real litmus test, if I may be so bold, is to manage to be accused...”
– Doug Wilson
“Apparently, reporters can “journalistically” offer their opinions about Super...”
– Lauren Uhrich (via Z)
January 2011
10 posts
3 tags
“There is no compelling or even reasonably decent argument for supposing that the...”
– Alvin Plantinga (Warranted Christian Belief, ch. 12)
“The alternative to resisting the passive pleasures of sin isn’t religious...”
– Sam Storms (For the Fame of His Name, 54)
“The greatest single benefit from working with John the last four years is that I...”
– David Mathis, John Piper’s assistant (For the Fame of His Name, 45)
New Year Resolution
1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
-Psalm 1:1-3
To delight in...
October 2010
1 post
“I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand...”
– Dr. Mildred Jefferson, first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical
(Al Mohler) (New York Times)
September 2010
4 posts
“Ah, I might sometimes imagine I was too bad to be forgiven; my own heart...”
– J.C. Ryle, “Calvary”
“But we love to dwell upon this transcendent truth, this glorious mystery: that...”
– Charles Spurgeon, Morning & Evening, September 21 (HT: OFI)
The Goodness of the Groaning of the Sons of God
“This is the posture of their minds who have received the first fruits of the Spirit in the most eminent degree. The nearer any one is to heaven, the more earnestly he desires to be there, because Christ is there. For the more frequent and steady are our views of him by faith, the more do we long and groan for the removal of all obstructions and interpositions in our so doing. Now the...
August 2010
11 posts
Lament →
Would You Reign With Christ, Or With This World?
“Some would reign here in this world; and we may say, with the apostle, ‘Would you did reign, that we might reign with you.’ But the members of the mystical body must be conformed to the Head. In him sufferings went before glory; and so they must in them. The order of the kingdom of Satan and the world is contrary to this. First the good things of this life, and then eternal...
“Virtue and vice, in their highest degrees, are not more diametrically opposite...”
– John Owen, The Glory of Christ, p.83
God's Love Is Not a Response to Our Worth
And because it is not a response to our intrinsic value, it heightens his love, it frees his love. For then he is no longer obligated to love us, but he does it out of joy, from the infinitely deep well of his own goodness, as a reflection of his worth, and to the praise of his glory.
“If it be inquired, whence this compassion and delight in him should arise, what should be the cause of...
WatchC.S. Lewis, calling it “the miserable idea that God should in any sense need, or crave for, our worship like a vain woman wanting compliments”…
Oprah, describing it as, “something struck me. I was 27 or 28, and I was thinking God is all, God is omnipresent, God is … also jealous? A jealous God is jealous of me? And something about that didn’t feel right in my...
You Don't Go to Heaven if You Don't Want Him Now
“It is impossible that he who never meditates with delight on the glory of Christ here in this world, who labours to behold it by faith as it is revealed in Scripture, should ever have any real gracious desire to behold it in heaven.”
John Owen, The Glory of Christ, p.83
What Can Be Seen in This Book
“And we are in the best frame of duty, when the principal motive in our minds to contend earnestly for retaining possession of the Scripture against all that would deprive us of it, or discourage us from a daily diligent search into it, is this, that they would take from us the only glass in which we may behold the glory of Christ. This is the glory of the Scripture, that it is the...
Do Christians Have to Obey the 10 Commandments?
In the sense that most people understand it— no.
From Spurgeon:
“But there is a doctrine, too often perverted, which is, nevertheless, a blessed truth, and ought to dwell in your hearts. ’Ye are not under the Law, but under Grace [Romans 6:14]’ hence you do not obey the will of God because you hope to earn heaven thereby, or dream of escaping from divine wrath by your...
July 2010
12 posts
On Wisdom, Worldview, and Joy →
Ray Ortlund once again shares a thought that dispels all “superstition, asceticism, and religious grumpiness”.
WatchA college kid from an atheist family; a coworker who moved away from a best friend; a bowling league buddy that lost his job… But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his” (2 Timothy 2:19 ESV).
