Posted in Christian Living, Covenant Theology, Law/Gospel, Puritans, Worship on Feb 28th, 2009 4 Comments »
I have posted on the Sabbath and the Law of God a lot recently, as it is been a particular area of my study as of late. But whenever I’m infatuated with any particular study of theology, whether that be the Law, or eschatology, or thematic Biblical Theology, I always come to a point where [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Puritans on Feb 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
Grace Abounding To The Chief of Sinners
by John Bunyan
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 159
Publisher: Evangelical Press
ISBN#: 0852344384
Summary: A powerful and vivid read on the true nature of conversion; a ‘must read’ for Christians of all walks.
“These things may seem ridiculous to others, even as ridiculous as they were in themselves, but to me they were most [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Church, Puritans, Worship on Jan 19th, 2009 5 Comments »
The Worship of the English Puritans
by Horton Davies
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
ISBN#: 1573580430
Summary: A largely academic approach in examining the history of Puritan worship, but very thorough and informative on several critical issues surrounding worship and the Word of God. This is a much needed work in our day.
On the [...]
Posted in Puritans on Oct 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
The Puritan Obadiah Sedgwick, in the highly commendable work Christ’s Counsel to His Languishing Church, gives 7 general directions concerning our attempt to discern truth from false doctrine.
How are we to know truth from error in matters of doctrine?
…true doctrine may be discerned from false doctrines:
By the unity of them
…There is but one way (said [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Puritans on Oct 9th, 2008 14 Comments »
Obadiah Sedwick, in his most excellent work Christ’s Counsel to His Languishing Church, an exposition of Revelation 3:2-3, lists 8 causes why Christians find their love of Christ growing cold. They had such an effect on me that I list them below (edited) for your edification.
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Puritans on Sep 16th, 2008 6 Comments »
In the excellent work, Precious Remedies for Satan’s Devices, Thomas Brooks lists 8 ‘devices’ or ’schemes’ Satan uses to hinder people from religious services and duties, and he then he follows up with several ‘remedies’ to combat each lie.Regarding Satan’s attempt to hinder our obedience to the faith, I found the 8th device and 4th [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Puritans on Sep 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
Biblical Theology
by John Owen
The History of Theology from Adam to Christ
Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 911
Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
ISBN#: 9781877611834
To review this book in detail would require much more space than is allotted here. Biblical Theology covers such a broad topic in such great detail, that pretty much any review this size will fail [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Church, Puritans, Worship on Aug 28th, 2008 11 Comments »
I found this John Owen excerpt proper considering yesterday’s post about church gimmicks and boosting attendance:
“…evangelical theology insists that the glory of religious worship is its internal and spiritual nature…To the natural man, therefore, no religious worship is pleasing unless he can see something of glory and splendor.”
“Notional religion must ever devise new rites, novel [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Church, Puritans on Aug 25th, 2008 14 Comments »
It should be widely agreed upon that the American church is largely in a state of apostasy. The evidence for such a statement should be obvious: false doctrine and heresies abound, blatant sins are often casually overlooked, and more people than ever profess Christ and maybe even attend church on occasion –but clearly without evidence [...]
Posted in Puritans, Worship on Aug 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve heard it said that John Owen affirmed that to take away the Regulative Principle of Worship would be to take away the entire foundation of Puritanism. To this I would agree, but would add to it that a true denial of the RPW would be to undermine Christianity in its entirety, not simple [...]
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