Books… Beware of the Pride of Reasoning; the True Guide to Knowledge Is Love 12 Feb 2016 Its Fénelon Friday! LETTER 30: Beware of the Pride of Reasoning; the True Guide to Knowledge Is Love Your mind is too much taken up with your circumstances, and this…
Love… The Reason Love Takes Grace 23 Jan 2016 This quote gets to the heart of why love without grace is little more than a shadow of the Real Thing. The kind of love God wants us to have…
What I've Been Learning Yup 22 Jan 2016 When you have no clear commitment to or understanding of truth, grace becomes little more than justification for preference. We end up mistaking the freedom we have in Christ for…
Books… False Positive 10—That Religious Affections Dispose Persons with their Mouths to Praise and Glorify God. 19 Jan 2016 Tuesdays with Edwards! For those who might be just joining us…. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections is one of Edwards' most widely read and influential works, and has come to…
Prayer Leaning into Grace (a Prayer) 17 Jan 2016 Gracious Father, We confess our weakness, brokenness, and darkness to You. We confess the same things every week. We fail to love one another. We constantly put ourselves and our…
Books… The Deeps (A prayer) 12 Jan 2016 One of my favorite books is The Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan prayers edited by Arthur Bennett and published by Banner of Truth. This is one of those…
Quotes Truth 5 Jan 2016 This is why grace, humility, and patience are so important when we are loving others.
Sovereignty… What I’ve Been Learning about Romans 8:28. 21 Dec 2015 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28, NIV). This is…
Grace… Loving Our Enemies 19 Dec 2015 David modeled what it means to love your enemy by sparing Saul's life in 1 Samuel 24. In yesterday's post we dug into the reality that the New Testament teaches…
Books… False Positive 8—That Comforts and Joys Seem to Follow Awakenings and Convictions of Conscience, in a Certain Order. Part 1. 9 Dec 2015 Yesterday was full of all sorts of unexpected surprises so I was not able to get my usual post on Jonathan Edwards up. Let's remedy that right now. It may…
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 