I just got off a phone call with my wife, telling me about an accident in the family. Then, almost immediately, I read on facebook of another accident to a friend, and looked back at the past few weeks and all that has happened to other friends in terms of illness and accident, and this…
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Whatever Happened…
Sometimes a good book hits home. Here are a couple of quotes from one I’ve been working through lately. From the chapter “Grace Alone”, page 119: “(M)any people…use justification theology to excuse their failure to care for others practically. They use knowledge of predestination to excuse their failure to evangelize. They use perseverance as an…
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This Is What I Know!
If only Job had known that his words would be inscribed in a Book, and would last so long, outlasting him by thousands of years! Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! For…
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Help My Unbelief
I got a new book in the mail today, “The Hymns of Philip Doddridge”, which contains over 300 hymns written in the early to mid-18th century (Doddridge was born in 1702 and died in 1751). As I paged through it this morning I found this hymn which ties in to my previous post. It turns…
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Faith On Trial
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a preacher for most of the 20th century, with most of his time at the Westminster Chapel in London. Many of his sermons have been transcribed into books, including an outstanding series on Romans, which should be in every pastor’s library. Recently, I’ve been reading his book on Psalm 73, entitled…
