Justin Taylor is posting important snippets of David Powlison’s book, Seeing with New Eyes. The first post introduces the lusts of the flesh, and the second explores how the New Testament describes what is wrong with us. You should read these two posts. This is important material for counseling ourselves and others in the fight …
Category Archives: Spiritual Discipline
Are You Ready to Meet God?
John Piper’s account of the last moments of his father, and his response to those moments, is a must read. HT: JT
With One Voice, by Alex Chediak
Alex Chediak has done a great service for anyone seeking guidance on how to handle singleness, dating, and marriage for the glory of God. If you’re a parent thinking about how to guide your kids through the dating years or a single person navigating those waters, the one voice of this book speaks with sanity, …
Prayer of the Month: 2 Corinthians 13:7-9
2 Corinthians 13:7-9 (NAU) Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we rejoice when we …
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Suffer Hardship . . . as a Good Soldier of Christ Jesus. . .
In these words of 2 Timothy 2:3 Paul exhorts Timothy to bear up under suffering for Christ the way that soldiers stand in battle. A beautiful picture of a soldier standing in battle is given today in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal essay by Daniel Henninger, “The Real American Idol.” Henninger describes the Medal …
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The Beauty, Dignity, and Comfort of Formality
This is a helpful meditation on the funeral deportment of a casual pastor as compared with the dignity of the Marines who also had a part. HT: Ray Van Neste
Why Preach?
Here’s a great question that beatifully describes the Word given us to proclaim: What if you were led to believe, as profoundly as you believe yourself to exist, that God has spoken . . . that within the covers of the Bible there on your table, incarnate in the syllables of our own language, throbs …
Sexual Purity
Here’s a great word from NT Prof. Dr. Rob Plummer of SBTS on the dangers of sexual sin.
5 Paths to the Love of your Life
I am so glad to be married. That was the sentence resounding in my head as I looked through 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life, edited by Alex Chediak. In God’s kindness and providence he gave me a wife even though I didn’t have the benefit of a book such as this. If …
Prayer of the Month: Jude 24-25
Jude 24-25 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Is the Bible Sufficient for Those Who Are Depressed?
What do you read when you want to help someone who is depressed? What do you suggest they read to help themselves out of their melancholy? John Piper has thought as carefully about these things as anyone in our day, and he gives us his conclusions in When the Darkness Will Not Life: Doing What …
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The Hope of Our Calling: Rewards Promised by Jesus to Those Who Overcome
Paul prays for the Ephesians that they will have the eyes of their hearts enlightened to know the hope of their calling in Ephesians 1:18. It seems that God wants us to be motivated by the astonishing things promised to those who are called. So what awaits them, what is the hope of their calling? …
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“Rejoice”, by Todd Twining
Far and away my favorite new Christmas song this year is on the Savior CD I was given this past week. Here are the lyrics to the song “Rejoice” by Todd Twining: Ve Verse 1 All the earth rejoice Your Creator reigns As the only awesome God The Alpha and the Omega Who was, is, …
Overcoming Sin and Temptation: A Suggestion for Pastors
Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor have blessed us with a new edition of John Owen’s three classic works on overcoming sin and temptation. You can read the commendations here. For my part, I have a suggestion that I hope at least some pastors and ministers will take up. I’ve said before that I think every …
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Prayer of the Month: Ephesians 1:16-19
ESV Ephesians 1:16-19 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know …
Prayer of the Month: 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
ESV 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, …
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Inscribe Them on the Tablets of Their Hearts. . .
As we’ve read books to our little ones over the last couple years, we’ve become so familiar with some of these children’s books that we can practically recite them. There’s a great little book by Susan Hunt called My ABC Bible Verses that will make the memorization of your children’s literature an edifying experience. The …
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Prayer of the Month (3 weeks overdue)
1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 (ESV) Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you, 12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, 13 so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before …
Why Do I Have to Go to Chapel?
If you’ve asked that question, maybe this post will help. HT: Michael Haykin
Books Every Seminary Graduate Should Have Read
Let me first say that I did not have all the books listed below read by the time I finished seminary (either time, that is, some I didn’t read until after I was out of school altogether). Let me also say that I have not read every word of all of the books listed below. …
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