Well meaning Christians can focus their efforts on the spiritual concerns of their own heart. Richard Baxter addresses this nicely in the following excerpt, One, and the better, is some religious people who think that their business is only with God and their own hearts, and that if they could
Continue readingI am a pastor and view the calling of being a “physician of souls” very highly. We must not, however, allow a high view of the ministry to lead us to denigrate the physical and material needs of people. In the words of Richard Baxter, Do as much good as
Continue readingRevisiting Girolamo Zanchi and his The Spiritual Marriage Between Christ and His Church he unpacks the duties of husbands and wives and emphasizes the demand of submission for the wife. The spiritual side of submission is expounded with regard to faith and repentance in the following paragraphs. With regard to the submission
Continue readingAn interesting book on marriage and its correlation to the union believers have with Christ is The Spiritual Marriage Between Christ and His Church and Every One of the Faithful written by Girolamo Zanchi, Concluding his chapter on “Duties of Husbands and Wives” Zanchi includes this gem of a thought that I
Continue readingOur congregation emphasizes a believer’s spiritual experience – the way a person comes to Christ, loves Christ, and lives out of Christ. This is relatively uncommon in the confessing church today where there tends to be more of an emphasis on programs and social action. While emphasizing spiritual experience is
Continue readingOur nature recoils from shame – even though it is an expected result of sin. This is true in evangelism as much as in any area of our lives. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress includes an account described by ‘Faithful’ of his interaction with a certain man ‘Shame’. …he objected
Continue readingThe realities of heaven and hell are not able to be compared. The beautiful description of Christian (in The Pilgrim’s Progress) to the possession of the eternal kingdom and what things that will be there… [In response to the nature of the place] There is an endless kingdom to be
Continue readingJohn Bunyan, in The Pilgrim’s Progress captures Christian’s response to the revelations of Interpreter’s house in a simple way, “Yea, and they put me in hope and fear.” To which, Interpreter responds, “Well, keep all things so in thy mind that they my be as a goad in thy sides,
Continue readingI have been reading through John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress again and have enjoyed footnotes by a Rev. Mason that set forth the beauty of salvation by Christ and His righteousness imputed freely to believers. Please read the three quotations below and be edified! Mr. Worldly-wiseman prefers morality to Christ the
Continue readingThe following two excerpts are from F.W. Krummacher’s “David: King of Israel” in the part of chapter 12 of 2 Samuel when the LORD chastises David. I appreciated the singular purpose of glorifying the LORD in this first quote, where Krummacher is expounding on verse 14, “given occasion for the
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