Posted in Administrative, Church, Puritans on Jul 23rd, 2009 5 Comments »
I’m somewhat partial to the doctrine of church discipline. I see it as absolutely vital to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I was not converted until the age of 21, but I had grow up all my life in several Baptist churches, one of them a very prominent SBC mega-church I attended 10 years. During these [...]
Posted in Calvinism, Puritans, Theology on Jul 9th, 2009 No Comments »
I am currently reading the classic puritan work, The Marrow of Theology, and will be posting little excerpts from it here over the next few weeks. Part 1 can be found here. Feel free to ask for further clarification if needed, for the argumentation in this treatise is all based upon a long, interlinked line [...]
Posted in Puritans, Theology on Jul 7th, 2009 4 Comments »
I am currently reading the classic puritan work, The Marrow of Theology, and will be posting little excerpts from it here over the next few weeks. Feel free to ask for further clarification if needed, for the argumentation in this treatise is all based upon a long, interlinked line of reasoning.
“[There is nothing] in theology [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Misc, Puritans on Apr 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
As I have mentioned before, I have joined Twitter now and am so far enjoying it. One of the things I like about it is that I can share quotes that I come across while reading and get instant feedback from those following me.
Today, I’d just like to collect and share the various quotes that [...]
Posted in Church, Puritans, Worship on Apr 13th, 2009 4 Comments »
Have you ever wondered why many modern-day churches have an ‘altar’?
From my 20+ years in Baptist churches, I can always remember special services (usually on a Sunday night, or a revival/evangelistic service) when the preacher would invite people to come down to the ‘altar’ to pray. There, at the foot of the pulpit, in front [...]
Posted in Puritans, Shepherding, Witnessing on Mar 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
I have argued here before that ’shepherding’ is the highest duty of the Christian. Yes, all Christians, in all stages of life and maturity, have a duty before God to be shepherding somebody. Some will be responsible for shepherding their children, some the flock of God in the local church, some their brothers and sisters, [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Devotional, Puritans on Mar 21st, 2009 3 Comments »
It was 6 years ago this month that the Lord first worked grace and repentance in my heart. Before I was converted, I was, like all the unconverted, an exceedingly wicked and profane person. But unlike some others I had little restraint in my outward manifestation of my wickedness. So upon my conversion there was [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Puritans on Mar 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Hope
by Jeremiah Burroughs
Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 150
Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
ISBN#: 9781573581714
Summary: A warm, devotional exposition of 1st John 3:3, “everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.”
Though Jeremiah Burroughs is personally not my favorite Puritan to read, I find him to be one of the the very easiest of Puritans to [...]
Posted in Puritans, Witnessing on Mar 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Have you ever had one of those discussions as has happened to me before when sharing the Law with the unbeliever to demonstrate sinfulness, ‘Oh, are you telling me that you don’t sin, that you don’t also break these commandments? I try not to live an upright life; why are you better or different than [...]
Posted in Devotional, Jesus Christ, Puritans on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear…” – Col 3:4″
Life here is, by a metonymy, put for the author of life.
We have shewed that Jesus Christ, He is first the author of a believer’s spiritual life… “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
Secondly, Jesus Christ, he is the matter of a believer’s [...]
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