Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment, p. 13: Self-examination; for a man to take his heart, as a watch, all in pieces, to set up a spiritual inquisition, or court of conscience, and traverse things in his own soul; to take David’s candle and lantern (Ps. 119.105) and search for sin; nay, as judge, ...
Here’s today’s helpful hint: take notes during the sermon . . . It’ll help you stay awake. It’ll help you remember what was said. And, for heads-of-households, it’s a great way to make sure that everyone understood the sermon by going over the notes later with the family. Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz ...
If we are to use the term “separation between Church & State,” we must do so honestly, remaining faithful to the original context: Thomas Jefferson was writing to Baptists who were being persecuted by an officially Congregationalist state government. Thus, he was not calling for a wall that protected the government from the church, but ...
WELCOME TO THE CONTINUING COLLAPSE!Exposing Government Schools: The Youth Ministry of the State Churchof Secular HumanismJune/July, Anno Domini 2010"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."(Groucho Marx) ? ?"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents,he would promise them missionaries for dinner."H.L. Mencken"Surrender is essentially an ...
From Great Commission Publications . . . “What’s going on here?” That’s the question the teacher asks when she returns to find her classroom in chaos, or the parent when he sees his children misbehaving. “What’s going on here?” my also be an appropriate question to ask many congregations as they assemble week after week ...
A few months ago I had the privilege of speaking to a few classes at Southern Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. During a Q&A, someone asked me what things we can do to keep our meetings from becoming dull, rote, and routine. Although there are probably a number of ways to answer that question, what ...
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 283: “Honest as a Huguenot” was as proverbial in the seventeenth century as the respect for law of the Dutch which Sir. W. Temple admired, and, a century later, that of the English as compared with those Continental peoples that had not been through ...
A simple comparison/contrast of the characteristics in Romans 6 with those in Romans 7 reveal some rather stark differences. After reading and comparing these passages, are they really referring to the same spiritual state? There’s actually one set that does refer to the same condition…can you find which one? Compare Romans 6:6 with Romans 7:14 ...
Thomas Taylor (1576-1632), English Puritan, wrote a commentary on Titus (described by Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans, p. 579, as “the most famous and safest guide on Titus”), in which he speaks of the types of grace bestowed by God upon man, p. 280 (1612, 1980): By “grace” in scripture are sometimes ...
Many Postmodern thinkers have taken to denying the law of non-contradiction. This law of thought states that A cannot be non-A at the same time and in the same sense. Despite their protestations, Postmodern-types violate this law when they claim that truth cannot be known. Since they mean for this claim to be taken as ...