Hand Over to Christ the Burden of the Ebb and Flow of Feeling

Our feelings are as changeable as April weather.  They are affected by an infinite number of subtle causes – our physical health, the state of the atmosphere, overweariness, want of sleep – as well as by those that are spiritual and inward.  No stringed instrument is more liable to be affected by minute changes than we [...]

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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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Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist View of Saving Grace

The Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist Views of Saving Grace by John Hendryx (from www.reformationtheology.com) Recently I had am exchange on a message board regarding the particulars of Calvinism. Hopefully you find it helpful: Visitor #1: I gave up on Calvinism a long time ago. My response: You mean you gave up on the [...]

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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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QnA: Is the Sovereign God to Be Blamed in the Unbelief of Men

Foreword:  This is a new section on this blog entitled Question and Answers (QnA).  I will post from time-to-time questions from brothers and sisters that I am in regular communication with concerning biblical topics, and followed by my response. Firstly, the answers are not extensive. Second, anyone can put in his views on the topic via comments, whether [...]

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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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Unhindered Reception

13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Truly, I say to you, [...]

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Preaching The Gospel To Ourselves

In a comment by a recent visitor to my weblog, he said in part, “People who talk to themselves and hear some sort of messages as Dr. Sproul said, as an advised to those who experience such, will better consult the counsel of Psychiatrists to the earliest possible time.” This was his quick response to my statement [...]

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