The Characteristics of the Divine Decrees

I am fascinated with Oshea Davis’ take on the sovereignty of God and the issue of evil in one of the forums at Facebook. He was kind enough to synthesize his comments, which I later understood to be a portion of the discourse in the book ‘Divine Decrees’ based on the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards.  Davis is the [...]

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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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Hand Over to Christ the Burden of How to Grow in Grace

  This is a very great burden to some earnest people. They go from convention to convention, from one speaker to another, notebook in hand, so eager to get the blessing (as they term it) and often thinking more of the rapture of the gift than of the person of the Giver.  And because they [...]

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Does God Hate Haiti?

By Dr. Albert Mohler The images streaming in from Haiti look like scenes from Dante’s Inferno. The scale of the calamity is unprecedented. In many ways, Haiti has almost ceased to exist. The earthquake that will forever change that nation came as subterranean plates shifted about six miles under the surface of the earth, along [...]

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Book Review: The Truth About Man

Book Review: The Truth About Man, by Paul Washer At the beginning of his classic Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin heads his very first paragraph thus: “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God”. This observation is strikingly true, and if one would take the time to discuss the gospel in [...]

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How Can God Be Loving and Yet Send People to Hell?

Foreword: The question above was answered briefly by Donald A. Carson and the original videoblog can be accessed here.  I have transcribed his response and appended it below. EmmausTrekker *     *     *     *     *   That’s a very good question. Right on the top, when we have to say that many of those who have fought [...]

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Cartooning the Word — R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis”

Foreword: Here is another interesting article by Albert Mohler concerning R. Crumb’s project of cartooning the narratives in the book of Genesis.  You can reach the original article through this link. My very first encounter with the Bible wherein I had very vivid memories has to do with a cartoon-style frame by frame presentation of main narratives of the Bible.  [...]

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Foreword: One of the most significant sermons preached during the Great Awakening. It pleased the Holy Spirit to use this preaching to prick the hearts of the hearers to repentance. May it ever be so again today as this, once more, is available below to be read by every visitor to this weblog. Verses below are [...]

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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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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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