The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. (Pro 1:7-9 KJV) Men as fathers play […]
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O God we know a tender heart must come from Thyself. By nature our hearts are stony, and we are proud and self-righteous. Spurgeon, Charles. The Pastor In Prayer (pp. 1-2). GLH Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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Biblically, we must realize that the size of what our eyes see is rarely a good way to estimate the greatness of something in the eyes of God. Dever, Mark. Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Kindle Locations 385-387). Good News Publishers. Kindle Edition.
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Law is in every culture religious in origin. Because law governs man and society, because it establishes and declares the meaning of justice and righteousness, law is inescapably religious, in that it establishes in practical fashion the ultimate concerns of a culture. Rushdoony, R. J.. The Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. 1 (Kindle Locations 199-201). […]
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The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context of the biblical writers— the context that produced the Bible. 1 Every other context is alien to the biblical writers and, therefore, to the Bible. Yet there is a pervasive tendency in the believing Church to filter the Bible through creeds, confessions, and denominational preferences. […]
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The more you see the free and infinite love of God, the more will your heart be at rest and quiet within you. Bridge, William. A Lifting Up For The Downcast (Vintage Puritan) (Kindle Locations 292-293). GLH Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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We are incompetent in the ordinary things of life. We divorce more readily than we sell houses, yet for some reason we believe that we possess great wisdom as regards men and women that our benighted ancestors did not possess. We raise sons who are not weaned at age twenty-five, yet for some reason we […]
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Men have been saved without the Scriptures, but not without redemptive revelation. Waldron, Samuel E. A Modern Exposition 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (Kindle Location 440). Evangelical Press. Kindle Edition.
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Though all his ways and dispensations are ordered in infinite wisdom, yet we can but stand at the shore of the ocean, and admire its glory and greatness. Little it is that we can comprehend. Owen, John. John Owen On Hebrews: A Classic Puritan Commentary (Kindle Locations 1122-1123). . Kindle Edition.
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Many of us have grown up on the theology that accepts the Holy Spirit as a Person, and even as a divine Person, but for some reason it never did us any good. We are as empty as ever, we are as joyless as ever, we are as far from peace as ever, we are […]