Book Review: Wired for Intimacy

WIRED FOR INTIMACY How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain Reviewed 03/01/2010 by Tim Challies. Recommended. An investigation of the brain’s role in pornography addiction without the “my brain made me do it” defense. I read recently of a researcher who wanted to study the effects of pornography on young adult males. He carefully built the [...]

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Simul Iustus et Peccator

(Original post at Monergism)   To one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness” – Romans 4:5 How is the Christian to see himself in this world? “Simul iustus et peccator” – “At the same time righteous and a sinner”. Justification is forensic. In Christ, [...]

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What Have You Done?

  To view original article, please click on the following link: http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/what-have-you-done/   by David VanDrunen Get a group of conservative Christians together and before long someone will probably express shock at the latest evidence of cultural decline: “Can you believe what they did?” It’s not nearly as common in such settings for someone to [...]

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Sesame Street and Yoga

Foreword:  I have a 35-year old sister with Down’s Syndrome and her childhood years have been a very happy one. She went to a special school and learned a lot. However, a major influence to her learning is Sesame Street where she learned to identify muppets by names, sing songs about A-B-C, words and numbers. Her [...]

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Keep the Fork

Foreword: A couple of years a go, I encountered a story that  tickled my thoughts and I have used it once as part of a sermon because it was relevant to the text of the message. I have not forgotten that story since. In the original article by Roger William Thomas, there was no mention of any Scripture [...]

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Sanctify Them By Your Truth

Foreword:  This is the 3rd installment on our series on “The Life of a Justified Sinner” from the Modern Reformation magazine Nov./Dec. Vol. 5 No. 6 1996 issue. For articles uploaded earlier, click the series title on the sidebar under ‘Categories’. EmmausTrekker *     *     *     *     * By Michael S. Horton   Sanctify them by [...]

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Heresies

by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (*) We have seen that the devil is never quite so subtle, and never quite so successful, as when he succeeds in persuading people that he does not exist at all! That, as we have suggested, was his supreme masterpiece, and it is certainly a part of our problem at the [...]

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How Spurgeon Learned of Grace

Well can I remember the manner in which I learned the Doctrines of Grace in a single instant. Born as all of us are by nature, an ‘Arminian,’ I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the Grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, [...]

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It’s Well Past the Time to Get Ready

  IT’S WELL PAST TIME TO GET READY By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 20, 2009 * “The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired [Jesus] that He would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for [...]

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The Well-Read Christian

THE WELL-READ CHRISTIAN: Why Bible Lovers Should Be Bibliophiles by Rick Ritchie   His accusing questions to the Pharisees begin with the words “Have you not read…?”, suggesting that his hearers were readers who should have read with more diligence. The well-read life was the aspiration of bygone saints. No, not the life that was [...]

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