Category: Bible Meditation
A Thousand Chapters from Thy Word. A Thousand Have been Read.
A few weeks before the year 2010 arrived I resolved to read my Bible with focus and discipline, with delight and eagerness. It has been 6 months since that time that I began reading the Word of God systematically, and I have been immensely blessed. I cannot put into justified words my indebtedness to such inexpressible grace. What a joy it is to be blessed able to read the Word of God. And yet what ...
A Thousand Chapters from Thy Word. A Thousand Have been Read.
A few weeks before the year 2010 arrived I resolved to read my Bible with focus and discipline, with delight and eagerness. It has been 6 months since that time that I began reading the Word of God systematically, and I have been immensely blessed. I cannot put into justified words my indebtedness to such inexpressible grace. What a joy it is to be blessed able to read the Word of God. And yet what ...
The Great End of All Theology!
The theological labor of Edwards exhorts us to study for the sake of heartfelt worship and for practical obedience. You recall what Mark Noll said: "Edwards' piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view. . ." The sweet marriage of reason and affection, of thought and feeling, of head and heart, study and worship that took place in the life of Jonathan ...
The Great End of All Theology!
The theological labor of Edwards exhorts us to study for the sake of heartfelt worship and for practical obedience. You recall what Mark Noll said: "Edwards' piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-entranced world-view. . ." The sweet marriage of reason and affection, of thought and feeling, of head and heart, study and worship that took place in the life of Jonathan ...
Don’t Get Your Vision of God Secondhand!
Don't get your vision of God secondhand. Don't even let Edwards or Packer be your primary source of divinity. This was the example Edwards himself sets for us. His early biographer Sereno Dwight said that when he came to his pastorate in Northampton, "he had studied theology, not chiefly in systems or commentaries, but in the Bible, and in the character and mutual relations of God and his creatures, from which all its principles are derived" ...
Don’t Get Your Vision of God Secondhand!
Don't get your vision of God secondhand. Don't even let Edwards or Packer be your primary source of divinity. This was the example Edwards himself sets for us. His early biographer Sereno Dwight said that when he came to his pastorate in Northampton, "he had studied theology, not chiefly in systems or commentaries, but in the Bible, and in the character and mutual relations of God and his creatures, from which all its principles are derived" ...