Holding Fast

I’ve told you about my friend, Lisa, who was such a strong encouragement to me.  How can we learn to help each other continue to follow Christ in obedience?  How do we help each other in areas in which there are struggles?  How can we hold fast to Christ in our temptations to sin?  In […]

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Reflections on 2 Corinthians 1:1-11

The heart that hears and understands With tenderness the pain, In caring, shares revealing scars To help me bear the strain. Compassion’s mark is found on those Who suffering have met; I trace their kindness in their words, As well as courage set. Those who have been through fire’s blaze Shine bright to those who […]

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Organizing Love

I want to tell you a story about a friend of mine named Lisa. Over ten years ago I was quite ill to the point of being almost bedridden. My husband, who at the time had a very understanding boss, would help get the day started with our children and then go to work about […]

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Truth In The Heart

John Owen was an English pastor and brilliant Puritan theologian who lived during the 1600s.  He was a contemporary of John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, and labored to have Bunyan released from his imprisonment for preaching without a license.  I’ve quoted Owen in Steerage, Perspicuity and in Songs, because I find his words […]

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Fruit

But as for me,
I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.

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Cutting It Straight

“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.”

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Pursuits

In True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer writes: “Intellectual pursuits can be to the glory of God.  But today much intellectual pursuit is not a pursuit of truth, or a search for truth, but a game—and the best game one can play…Theology today is often a superior game, just like the game of general intellectual thinking….If I […]

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Treasure For The Heart

In Psalm 19, David writes not only about God’s revelation in His creation and in His Word, but he also writes about the response of his own heart. “7The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8The precepts of the LORD are […]

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Songs

Over the past week I’ve given just an introduction to some of the great doctrines regarding the Word of God.  I’ve done it to provide some help for you to grow in your understanding of what the Bible is. B. B. Warfield speaks so eloquently on revelation: “…we do not see in revelation man reaching […]

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Hitting The Mark

In archery an arrow is carefully fletched with feathers at the end of its shaft. When real feathers are used, they must all be from the same wing of a bird—if you mix feathers from both wings on the same arrow, it won’t fly correctly because feathers from the left wing cause it to spin […]

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Perspicuity

“You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:14-15 R. C. Sproul: […]

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