Soli Deo Gloria!

Seven Myths Single Women Believe

// December 4th, 2008 // Comments Off // Good Reads

Seven Myths Sin­gle Women Believe. — Bound​less​.org

Good stuff. I’ll prob­a­bly have to refer back to it at least once a month.

Good Reads: July 29, 2008

// July 29th, 2008 // Comments Off // Godly Living, Good Reads

“Imag­ine your­self as a liv­ing house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, per­haps, you under­stand what He is doing. He is get­ting the drains right, and stop­ping the leaks in the roof, and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and you are not sur­prised. But presently He starts knock­ing the house about in a way that hurts abom­inably, and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The expla­na­tion is that He is build­ing quite a dif­fer­ent house from the one you thought of — throw­ing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, run­ning up tow­ers, mak­ing court­yards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent lit­tle cot­tage: but He is build­ing a palace. He intends to come and live in it Him­self.”

- C.S. Lewis, Mere Chris­tian­ity (Lon­don: William Collins, 1970), 172.

“How dif­fer­ent is the God of the Bible from the God of mod­ern Chris­ten­dom! The con­cep­tion of Deity which pre­vails most widely today, even among those who pro­fess to give heed to the Scrip­tures, is a mis­er­able car­i­ca­ture, a blas­phe­mous trav­esty of the Truth. The God of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury is a help­less, effem­i­nate being who com­mands the respect of no really thought­ful man. The God of the pop­u­lar mind is the cre­ation of a maudlin sen­ti­men­tal­ity. The God of many a present-day pul­pit is an object of pity rather than of awe-inspiring rev­er­ence. To say that God the Father has pur­posed the sal­va­tion of all mankind, that God the Son died with the express inten­tion of sav­ing the whole human race, and that God the Holy Spirit is now seek­ing to win the world to Christ; when, as a mat­ter of com­mon obser­va­tion, it is appar­ent that the great major­ity of our fellow-men are dying in sin, and pass­ing into a hope­less eter­nity: is to say that God the Father is dis­ap­pointed, that God the Son is dis­sat­is­fied, and that God the Holy Spirit is defeated. We have stated the issue baldly, but there is no escap­ing the con­clu­sion. To argue that God is “try­ing His best” to save all mankind, but that the major­ity of men will not let Him save them, is to insist that the will of the Cre­ator is impo­tent, and that the will of the crea­ture is omnipo­tent.” —A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)

Good Reads: July 22, 2008

// July 22nd, 2008 // Comments Off // Bible Study, Good Reads

We must be con­stant wor­ship­pers — The Rebe­lu­tion

Which God do you wor­ship? –Part 8:  The Desert Pas­tor

“The doc­trine of irre­sistible grace is eas­ily under­stood. Once we under­stand the con­di­tion of man in sin, that he is dead, enslaved to a cor­rupt nature, inca­pable of doing what is pleas­ing to God, we can fully under­stand the sim­ple asser­tion that God must raise the dead sin­ner to life. That is all, really, the phrase means: it has noth­ing to do with sin­ners rebelling against God and ‘resist­ing’ Him in that way. It has noth­ing to do with the fact that Chris­tians often resist God’s grace in their lives when they sin against Him. No, irre­sistible grace means one thing: God raises dead sin­ners to life.”
–James R. White, The Potter’s Free­dom

The gospel of Satan is not a sys­tem of rev­o­lu­tion­ary prin­ci­ples, nor yet a pro­gram of anar­chy. It does not pro­mote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daugh­ter nor the father against his son, but fos­ters the fra­ter­nal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great “broth­er­hood.” It does not seek to drag down the nat­ural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advo­cates edu­ca­tion and cul­ti­va­tion and appeals to “the best that is within — It aims to make this world such a com­fort­able and con­ge­nial habi­tat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed. It endeav­ors to occupy man so much with this world that he has no time or incli­na­tion to think of the world to come. It prop­a­gates the prin­ci­ples of self-sacrifice, char­ity and benev­o­lence, and teaches us to live for the good of oth­ers, and to be kind to all. It appeals strongly to the car­nal mind and is pop­u­lar with the masses, because it ignores the solemn facts that by nature man is a fallen crea­ture, alien­ated from the life of God, and dead in tres­passes and sins, and that his only hope lies in being born again.

 

In con­tradis­tinc­tion to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches sal­va­tion by works. It incul­cates jus­ti­fi­ca­tion before God on the ground of human mer­its. Its sacra­men­tal phrase is “Be good and do good”; but it fails to rec­og­nize that in the flesh there dwelleth no good thing. It announces sal­va­tion by char­ac­ter, which reverses the order of God’s Word — char­ac­ter by, as the fruit of, sal­va­tion. Its var­i­ous ram­i­fi­ca­tions and orga­ni­za­tions are man­i­fold. Tem­per­ance, Reform Move­ments, “Chris­t­ian Social­ist Leagues,” Eth­i­cal Cul­ture Soci­eties, “Peace Con­gresses” are all employed (per­haps uncon­sciously) in pro­claim­ing this gospel of Satan — sal­va­tion by works.” —A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)

 

Taken from Another Gospel by A.W. Pink

 

HT: The Bororean

Good Reads: July 3, 2008

// July 3rd, 2008 // Comments Off // Good Reads

Half pills of poi­son? — The Desert Pas­tor

Reformed The­ol­ogy in One Verse — Sym­phony of Scrip­ture

What is Sal­va­tion? — Of First Impor­tance

Good Reads: June 30, 2008

// June 30th, 2008 // Comments Off // Good Reads

Quotes:

Apos­tasy poses real and present dan­gers today as always. Actu­ally, the threat may be more immi­nent and more dan­ger­ous than ever, because most Chris­tians nowa­days sim­ply don’t care about the preva­lence of false doc­trine, nor do they take seri­ously their duty to fight against apos­tasy. Instead, they want a friendly atmos­phere of open accep­tance for every­one, tol­er­ance of oppos­ing ideas, and char­i­ta­ble dia­logue with the apos­tates.

- John MacArthur

The god which the vast major­ity of pro­fess­ing Chris­tians love is looked upon very much like an indul­gent old man, who him­self has no rel­ish for folly, but leniently winks at the indis­cre­tions of youth. But the Word says, “Thou hat­est all work­ers of iniq­uity (Psalm 5:5). And again, “God is angry with the wicked every day” (Psalm 7:11). But men refuse to believe in this God, and gnash their teeth when His hatred of sin is faith­fully pressed upon their atten­tion.

- A.W. Pink

Good Reads

// June 27th, 2008 // Comments Off // Good Reads

Walk­ing in Light:  Inten­tional god­li­ness - Pos­sess­ing the Trea­sure

How will we pray — when we wake up the day after elec­tion day? - Con­ser­v­a­tive Reformed Mafia

Pray at the pump — As if we don’t have bet­ter things to pray about! — Jesus Shaped Spir­i­tu­al­ity