The Long War

Foreword:  This is the last installment on the series  from Modern Reformation, Nov./Dec. Vol. 5 No. 6 1996 issue. To see the complete list and full articles, go to ‘Categories’ from the sidebar and choose the section on The Life of A Justified Sinner. – EmmausTrekker
 
By Dr. Michael S. Horton
Everyone knows St. Augustine , that fourth-century giant, as [...]

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What is Discipleship?

I have transcribed the introduction below from the White Horse Inn broadcast on December 6, 2009 regarding the subject – EmmausTrekker
 
What is Discipleship? by Michael Horton
Once we sit down and really become a disciple, a listener, a learner, once we really do, first of all, receive from Jesus the truth, the doctrine that He wants to teach us, [...]

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No New Revelation!

 
by John Calvin, from the Institutes of John Calvin and Calvin’s Commentary on Hebrews
“For in [Christ] ‘all treasures of knowledge and wisdom are hid’ (Colossians 2:3) with such great abundance and richness that either to hope for or to seek any new addition to these treasures is truly to arouse God’s wrath and provoke him [...]

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Book Review: Deserted by God?

Book Review: Deserted by God? by Sinclair Ferguson
Reviewed by Nathan Pitchford
Where do you go when you’re feeling depressed, disconsolate, overwhelmed by sin, discouragement, loneliness, painful afflictions, dark valleys of despair? For the believer, there is no source of comfort that can compare to the psalter, that blessed “anatomy of the soul,” an apt description of [...]

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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.  It [...]

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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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Book Review: Him We Proclaim

 

Foreword:  This is one of the books in my reading list since May of this year. The other two are Heroes and Heretics, and Why We’re Not Emergent. I have not finished Him We Proclaim till now because I want to make sure that I get the point of every section I am reading, realizing above [...]

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Hell: Trick or Threat?

Foreword:  Goblins, ghouls, witches and demons…these are but a few of the costumes that young kids (and adults too) in many countries around the world will wear on Halloween’s eve (Oct 31) and go around merrily trick or treating from door-to-door . It is also the eve of the day of the commemoration of 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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How Can Our Good Works Please God…God’s Work or Ours?

Foreword – This article was originally posted in Modern Reformation’s issue entitled The Pilgrims’s Progress – The Life of A Justified Sinner – Nov./Dec. Vol. 5 No. 6 1996. This issue is now out of print and one of the best volumes that rolled out of the press. It can be accessed electronically at Modern Reformation’s website [...]

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