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Archive for May 24th, 2010
Dad Rod Likes It!
Rod Rosenbladt, who early in White Horse Inn history was given the moniker “Dad Rod,” sent over this piece from Mark Galli that was featured on the Christianity Today website on April 15. Mark Galli is the senior managing editor of Christianity Today, and his recent writing gives us goosebumps. We’re only sorry that it ...
Horton on Hannity.com
Mike Horton made a surprise guest appearance on Hannity.com Sunday night. On the “forums” section of political commentator Sean Hannity’s website, a discussion about “Reasonable” Christianity vs. Revivalism in America broke out and someone posted a link to Horton’s Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 1995) article, “The Legacy of Charles Finney.” In addition to reading the article, ...
Was John Calvin a Murderer?
Was John Calvin responsible for the execution of Michael Servetus? That’s the question Jim McClarty answers over at Reformed Voices. Here’s how it begins . . . This is a question that shows up in my email from time to time. It’s a claim that is leveled by those who seek to besmirch Reformed Theology. ...
Meditation When We Go to Bed
William Hunnis, A Handful of Honeysuckles (1585): Meditation When We Go to Bed O Lord my God, I wandered haveAs one that runs astray,And have in thought, in word, and deed,In idleness and play,Offended sore thy Majesty,In heaping sin to sin,And yet thy mercy hath me spar’d,So gracious hast thou been!O Lord, my faults I ...
There Were Giants In Those Days
As Methodist minister Samuel Dunn once wrote concerning those Puritan divines who preached the famous “Morning Exercises,” “There were giants in those days.” He is the author of a remarkable biographical work entitled Memoirs of seventy-five eminent Divines whose Discourses form the Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and Southwark (1844), which was recently digitized ...
A Church in the House
Matthew Henry, “A Church in the House, A Sermon Concerning Family-Religion”: This way of instruction by catechising does in a special manner belong to the “church in a house;” for that is the nursery in which the trees of righteousness are reared, that afterwards are planted in the courts of our God.…There are family blessings ...
Four Last Things
The Puritans were noted for pressing upon sinners and saints thoughts of the “four last things”: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. Eternal life and death, a question that modern society would gloss over or avoid confronting altogether, was an important theme of Puritan preaching and teaching, because human nature has not changed too much since ...
Totam Applica
In his Preface to the smaller Greek text of the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel wrote a rule to be followed by the student of scripture (which, as Edwards A. Park wrote in 1873, “To a layman as a well as a clergyman is the maxim applicable”): “Te totam applica and textum; rem totam applica ...
Gathering Honey
William Bates, “On Divine Meditation,” in Works, Vol. 3, p. 116: Consider the end of meditation. It is in order to practice. There are many persons that fly over a garden of flowers, (I mean over many spiritual objects) their thoughts run and they gather no honey, they bring no fruit to their souls; but ...