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—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 ...

A Christless Gospel is No Gospel at All

—Weekly Dose of Spurgeon

December 15, 2009 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Weekly Dose of Spurgeon

Every week, in the tradition of Daily or Weekly dose of Spurgeon's all around the blogosphere, we in New.Demonstration would like to present our own version of it. Every week, once a week, I will be reading chronologically from Charles Spurgeon's Sermon Archive. I will ...

The Dark Night of the Soul

—The Crisis of Faith

December 15, 2009 // 0 Comments

Filed under: Dark Night of the Soul, R.C. Sproul

The dark night of the soul. This phenomenon describes a malady that the greatest of Christians have suffered from time to time. It was the malady that provoked David to soak his pillow with tears. It was the malady that earned for Jeremiah the sobriquet, ...

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