To Robert Gordon of Knockbrex - Seeing Christ more clearly through tribulation’s lens
My Very Worthy and Dear Friend,
Grace, mercy, and peace be to you. Though all Galloway should have forgotten me, I would have expected a letter from you ere now; but I will not expound it to be forgetfulness of me.
Now, my dear brother, [...]
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Posted in Ecclesiology, Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, Pilgrim Praxis, Providence, Sacra Scriptura, Samuel Rutherford, Sola Fide, tagged Christianity, religion, suffering on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To Mr. Robert Blair - The Other Half of Our Ministry
Reverend and Dearly Beloved Brother,
Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, be unto you.
It is no great wonder, my dear brother, that ye be in heaviness for a season, and that God’s will (in crossing your design and [...]
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Encouragement in the Power of the Gospel
For any Christian involved in Muslim ministry, Afshin’s testimony of believing in Jesus Christ as the Way, Truth, and Life (John 14:6) is highly encouraging.
Intriguing Perspective for ACW Research
Furthermore, in light of my present research into the A Common Word initiative, listening to Afshin’s story forces me to think [...]
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Letter #6
Well-Beloved Sister,
I have been thinking, since my departure from you, of the pride and malice of your adversaries; and ye may not (since ye have had the Book of Psalms so often) take hardly with this; for David’s enemies snuffed at him, and through the pride of their heart said, ‘The Lord will not [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Book Reviews, Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, Mortification of Sin, Obedience, Old Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Psalter, Sanctification, Sola Scriptura, tagged Christian life, Christianity, prayer, soul care, spirituality on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Out Deepest Questions About God by Dr. Dan Allender & Dr. Tremper Longman, III
NavPress, 1999; 270 pages; ISBN 1576831809
A Welcome Surprise To My Low Expectations
Though I had pretty low expectations for reading a Christian book on emotions, I was encouraged by the reassuring word in the [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Ecclesiology, John, John 17, Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, New Testament, Sacra Scriptura, Semper Reformanda, Sola Ecclesia, tagged prayer, Reformed on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
The November edition of the OPC’s New Horizons has a helpful exhortation to Gospel unity by applying Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer in John 17, asking:
What does the Lord pray for?
Why is this unity important?
How is this impossible task accomplished?
Free New Horizons Articles
“That They Might Be One”
by Philip T. Proctor
Helps for Worship #23: Old and New [...]
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Calvin’s estimation of the importance of the Psalter carries weighty implications for those seeking to know God: “In short, as calling upon God is one of the principal means of securing our safety, and as a better and more unerring rule for guiding us in this exercise cannot be found elsewhere that in The Psalms, [...]
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Why is it so hard to pray?
Jesus is the balm for sin’s wretched wound. He is the Savior, the Victor, the Son of Man–all of these He is to me. Furthermore, my Father has adopted me as His son, and my Lord calls me His brother. Yes, I know all of these truths. So why [...]
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