Matthew Henry writes on Ex. 22.5: We should be more careful not to do wrong than not to suffer wrong, because to suffer wrong is only an affliction, but to do wrong is a sin, and sin is always worse than affliction. The Scriptures teach plainly what our choice ought to be between the one ...
Let the most Blessed be my Guide,If’t be his blessed Will,Unto his Gate, into his Fold,Up to his Holy Hill:And let him never suffer meTo swerve or turn asideFrom his Free Grace, and Holy Ways,Whate’er shall me betide The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz ...
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. Prov. 18.1 James Ussher, A Method for Meditation: In the words above recited, if you compare them with the words that follow after, you have Solomon’s wise man, a man of understanding, and Solomon’s fool, who is destitute of wisdom. Solomon’s wise ...
Nobody wants to peer too deeply into Job’s story. I know I don’t. The fear is that, if I consider and contemplate for too long what happened to Job, some of what happened to him might happen to me. Silly? Maybe. Truthfully, though, it goes against our natural bent to think that someone who was ...
Welcome to a full month of ridiculously low prices on Sovereign Grace music and books. We call it our February sale. For the past two years during the month of February, we reduced the prices of all the resources we produce. The response has been overwhelming. So we decided to repeat the lunacy. Here’s the ...
“STRENGTH AND DIGNITY ARE HER CLOTHING”ByJasmine BauchamLast summer, I spent a week in Louisiana with a dear friend of mine who was there for the summer nannying for her aunt and uncle. I had never been to New Orleans before, and hadn’t seen my friend for several weeks; also, it was my first time away ...
Daniel Dyke, Michael and the Dragon, or Christ Tempted and Satan Foiled, pp. 10-11: A Double Comfort in Crosses Here is double comfort then in our crosses. 1. On our part. That we have received of God’s Grace which is more comfortable than the cross discomfortable, and that therefore we shall not be tempted above ...