From Charles Spurgeon:The Bible has passed through the furnace of persecution, literary criticism, philosophic doubt, and scientific discovery, and has lost nothing but those human interpretations which clung to it as alloy to precious ore. The experience of saints has tried it in every conceivable manner, but not a single doctrine or promise has been consumed in the most excessive heat. What God's...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
on the accuracy of our Bible
I take great comfort in the words of Rabbi Ishmael:"My son, be careful, because your work is the work of heaven; should you omit (even) one letter or add (even) one letter, the whole world would be destroyed" (b. Sot. 20a).Our Hebrew Bibles were copied with such care and precision that we can trust...
Eat the Book!
This week has been a preaching marathon for me and I've thoroughly enjoyed the hours I've spent with the Lord in His Word preparing these messages. Though I'm technically a full-time seminary student, I haven't devoted much time to my studies this week (which means double for this week!) but that's OK. Here's how my preaching schedule went last week:Tuesday - I did OT Survey with the youth group (Yep,...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
.encouragement
God knows what we need when we need it and God always provides what is best for us in His perfect time to bring Himself the greatest glory. (That's a mouthful.) At any rate, this morning, I received one of those emails from an individual in our church. The email expressed a sincere gratitude for Elizabeth...
Monday, January 19, 2009
Israel 2009 Update
We're well under way in finalizing plans for our trip to the Holy Land in just a few weeks. If you're interested in keeping tabs with us while we're there, you can download and/or print this calendar which tells you where we'll be on what days. We also had a brief Old Testament history and theology...
Friday, January 16, 2009
do I love the world?
In a conversation I had this week, the issue of the Christian's relationship to and love for the world surfaced again in my mind. I am convinced the Scriptures are clear in that the Christian life is not one of dichotomy or separationism for all life is to be devoted to Christ as "service of worship" (Rom 12:1-2). Nevertheless, the Bible abounds with references to abstain from the world and its manifold...
Monday, January 12, 2009
BEWARE--no easy way down.
This weekend was a much needed rest for me and Elizabeth. We traveled up to the mountains with her family and ate, played games, read Scripture, sledded, and skied down mountains I had no business being on (ha!).Psalm 148:8-13 8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; 9...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
do you love?
Agape, the Christian word used most often in the NT, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that no matter what a man may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation we will never seek anything else but his highest good. It is therefore a feeling of the mind as much as of the heart; it concerns the will as much as the emotions. It describes the deliberate effort—which we can make only with...
Sunday, January 4, 2009
consecrated to christ.
Let us this day consider how we can be consecrated to Christ. This Lord's day--for it is, indeed, day--remember that He saved us not because of deeds we have accomplished in the flesh, but rather because of His free salvation freely given to us through Jesus Christ. As you sing, as you pray, as you hear God's Word read and proclaimed from the pulpit, and as you apply and implement what you hear to...
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