“As we must turn keenness of mind toward God, so affection of heart has to follow.” -John Calvin
This probably isn’t a huge secret but I must say that Timothy Brindle’s Killing Sin and Shai Linne’s The Atonement albums are awesome. In my option there is no other artists that gives the truth of the gospel, God, and man as straight as they do. I’ve probably listened to each of these albums every day at work for the last two weeks……and I usually don’t care for hip-hop/rap. Don’t take my word for it check out their music in the above links.
Ch. 10 - God Records The Piety Of His People
From The Great Gain of Godliness, by Thomas Watson
“We may be losers for him, but we shall not be losers by him.” -p. 106
“God will not upbraid his people with their former offenses.” -p. 107
“A mother may sooner be unnatural than God forgetful.” -p. 109
Ch. 11 - God Rewards The Piety Of His People
“It is better to lie prostrate at God’s feet, and to meet him with tears in our eyes rather than weapons in our hands. We overcome God, not by resistance, but by repentance.” -p.116
Ch. 12 - God Rewards His People By Owning Them
“Many failings do not invalidate the covenant of grace. I grant the least sin makes a trespass upon the covenant, but it does not cancel it.” -p. 119
“The Lord may give a man riches and not love him.” -p. 121
“We are not free from God’s anger as a Father. but as a Judge.” -p. 122
“Indeed if salvation has no better pillar to rest upon than man’s will (as the Arminians hold) no wonder if there is falling away; but a Christian’s stability in grace is built upon a surer basis, namely, God’s ‘everlasting (or inviolable) covenant.” -p. 123
“A star may sooner fall out of its place than a true believer be plucked away from God.” -p.123
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“Any religion that becomes the religion of the majority and slowly turns into a social habit tends to grow humdrum and flat, regardless of its original glow of enthusiasm.”
Bruce Shelley in his book Church History In Plain Language (p.325) says this of Lutheran Germany in the 17th century but I find the quote quite fitting for what I have seen of the religious South where I have grown up. It is disappointing to see many friends and acquaintances fall away from their childhood ‘faith’, or at the very least subscribe to a thin veneer of Christianity. I wish that pastors would preach a strong, big, and just God, who will not be stopped and will crush anyone who does not submit since grace is for only those who bow to him. Perhaps once God becomes big and man small then Christianity will become exciting. No one wants to work for or especially worship someone who they can manage and are merely friends with.
Check out these overdubbed videos of parts of old Jesus movies, they are hilarious. They were made by Vintage21, which is a Acts 29 Network church in North Carolina.
While boring myself watching ‘Kong’ tonight I decided to get on the web and browse around when low and behold I found a really interesting fact. A Baptist minister named Elijah Craig, who founded Georgetown College here in Kentucky, is credited with inventing bourbon. He even has a bourbon named after him. Check it out here.
Perhaps he can this year’s Heritage Week Baptist minister to focus on and learn how to emulate.
I found this browsing the internet today and thought it was pretty funny, considering the current resolution. You can get the full article on the sign here.
In Romans 12:19 God says that vengence is mine but didn’t say that we couldn’t mock them.
Well the semester is finally over (which means no more forced Greek though it by no means is a negative reflection on my greek teacher it’s just that I’m sick of studying vocab and parsings) and tomorrow I’m going to ‘South Asia’ for two weeks through the seminary. It won’t be a vacation but a change of venue for a short time will feel good to see a country I have never been to and share with Muslims and help teach some of the church leaders there.
When I get back I plan to put some pics from the trip up here on the site.
