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From First to Last Jesus Does All Things Well

—Daily Devotion

March 13, 2010 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Christian Living, Devotion, Octavius Winslow, The Sovereignty of God

Starting today I will be posting "Daily Devotions" from various saints of old, Lord willing from the present as well. I hope that in some small way you would be able to find spiritual help in posts like this. I found this particular one from a ...

Frailty of the Human Soul

—On Christian Living and the Pilgrim's Progress

March 13, 2010 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Christian Living

What is it in the human soul that causes it to forget His redeemer in the first breathe of the closing of His Bible? How tragic it is that our hearts immediately wander away just minutes after closing a prayer. Frailty. Such is the condition ...

New Demonstration Version 3.0 Launch!

—Quick Brief Update on Things to Come

March 7, 2010 // 2 Comments

Filed under: Random

It's been 2 months since I've last written, and if it's not that obvious to you yet one reason is my blog redesign of N.D. for the New year of 2010! A lot has happened in the past few months that I want to share ...

New Year Prayers of a Weak and Broken Soul

—Prayers for the New Year

January 2, 2010 // 3 Comments

Filed under: Prayer

1830 Be pleased, dear Lord, to grant me during the present year--more of Your gracious presence, more tenderness of conscience and fear of offending You; more humility, stronger faith, and more entire devotedness to Your cause. Enable me to leave my temporal concerns entirely with You, ...

Evangelicalism Stands or Falls with Calvinism

—On Reformation Theology and the Gospel

December 28, 2009 // 2 Comments

Filed under: Doctrines of Grace, James Boice, Reformed Theology

'The world should realize with increased clearness that Evangelicalism stands or falls with Calvinism.' ((B. B. Warfield, quoted in Arthur C. Custance, The Sovereignty of Grace (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1979), 83-84.)) The great princeton theologian Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield wrote those words a century ago. ...

Thinking of His Birth Reminds me of His Death

—A Christmas Day Post

December 24, 2009 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Gospel of the Lord Christ Jesus

Let us spend this moment, as Christmas day comes, in reflection of God's infinitely tremendous condescending grace by sending His Son to take up the flesh of sinful man to live among us on this earth, to fulfill the law that we never can and ...

Grace Greater Than Our Sin

—Lord's Day Hymn

December 20, 2009 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Lord's Day Hymn

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ---Romans 5:20 Marvelous grace of our loving ...

A Prayer Anticipating the Lord’s Day Morning

—A Puritan Prayer

December 19, 2009 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Prayer

O Maker and Upholder of all things, Day and night are thine; they are also mine from thee – the night to rid me of the cares of the day, to refresh my weary body, to renew my natural strength; the day to summon me to new activities, to give me opportunity ...

Sin’s Painted Pleasures and Sugared Poisions…

—On Overcoming Sin and Temptation

December 18, 2009 // 0 Comments

Filed under: John Owen, Mortification of Sin

As the Scriptures often call attention to the “heart” or “soul” of a person, Owen argues that such references tend to be shorthand for the various faculties, and thus to deal with sin the whole person must be engaged. Although Owen gives ample attention ...

The Law not for Condemnation, but Sanctification

—On The Law and Gospel: The Third Use of The Law

December 16, 2009 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Law and Gospel

For the law indeed says that it is God’s will and command that we walk in new life. However, it does not give the power and ability to begin or to carry out this command. Instead, the Holy Spirit, who is given and received not ...

N.D. is a blog whose sole purpose is the glorification of God, that, through the smallness of our minds, the feebleness of our hands, the frailty of our beings, the Lord our God would find pleasure through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe and to strengthen those already in the faith.

We take hold and stand firm on the Christ-exalting truths of the Reformation such as the five solas, the doctrines of grace, monergistic regeneration, and the redemptive historical approach to interpreting the Scriptures.

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