To Lady Kenmure - Ill Scholars in Christ’s School
Madam,
Grace, mercy and peace be to you. I received your Ladyship’s letter. It refreshed me in my heaviness. The blessing and prayer of a prisoner of Christ come upon you.
Nothing grieveth me but that I eat my feasts my lone, and that I cannot edify His saints. [...]
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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, Obedience, Old Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Psalm 1, Psalter, Sacra Scriptura, Sola Gratia, tagged exegesis, Hebrew on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
(To see the Hebrew text you need the free Ezra SIL SR unicode font.)
Psalm 1:3a, Part 2
We have seen that the blessed man is like a tree. Now the text invites us to explore further into the nature of the blessings attained by “treeness.”
שָׁת֪וּל עַֽל־פַּלְגֵ֫י מָ֥יִם
Specifically, the blessed man is like a tree which “was [...]
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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 Book Reviews, Christology, Contra Pelagianism, Ecclesiology, Ephesians, Ephesians 2, Hebrews, Mortification of Sin, Obedience, Pilgrim Praxis, Sacra Scriptura, Sanctification, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, tagged Christian life, healing, historia salutis, ordo salutis on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life
by Dan Allender; Paperback; ISBN: 1578563917
Thesis: God even uses hurts to sanctify Christians
Positioning himself in a long line of Christian tradition that seeks to draw Christians onto the “way of life” (i.e. Didache 1:1-2; c.f. Deut. 30:19, Psa. 1:1-2; [...]
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Posted in Colossians, John Piper, Mortification of Sin, Obedience, Pilgrim Praxis, Sanctification, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Sola Scriptura, Soteriology, tagged Christianity, freedom, guilt, Justification, porn, pornography, repentance, shame on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Although the Gospel’s light shines into our deepest darknesses, giving God’s people freedom from sin’s slavery, the dread blackness of shame, especially shame from sexual addictions, constantly deceives Christians into shutting their eyes. Sexual sin leaves one awash in an ocean of guilt, feeling as if the True Light is not already shining. Is the [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Mortification of Sin, Obedience, Old Testament, Pilgrim Praxis, Psalm 1, Psalter, Sacra Scriptura, Sanctification, tagged exegesis, Hebrew, sin on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Psalm 1:1b1
וּבְדֶ֣רֶךְ חַ֭טָּאִים לֹ֥א עָמָ֑ד
“…and in the way of sinners [he] does not stand”
As we enter the next phrase of v. 1, we begin to see a pattern in the Hebrew text. The person who is blessed by God is the one who (a) avoids a fealty-motivated, loving (i.e. loyal) action within (b) a [...]
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Posted in Obedience, Pilgrim Praxis, Psalm 1, Psalter, Sacra Scriptura, Sanctification, Sola Gratia, tagged Gospel, grace, law on October 18, 2007 | No Comments »
How can Christians truly sing Psalm 1:2, “But his delight is in the law of the Lord,” when it still feels like the law condemns, shames, and accuses us? The answer is by understanding the Christian’s new relationship God’s law (or the law’s third use, as Reformed speak would put it.) Listen to Steve Brown [...]
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Peter, the one whose cross-shaped calling was unfolded to him through the ebbs and flows of sinning, repenting, believing, and walking with the Master, exhorts us that to follow the footsteps of Jesus is to walk the way of the cross: For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, [...]
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John Piper’s latest book, When the Darkness Will Not Lift, is available as a free PDF download .
(HT: Triablogue)
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