It is vital to firmly ground the Christian faith in the objective realities of God’s work and yet these must be subjectively appropriated by individual people. J.G. Vos wrote a fine booklet (“Ashamed of the tents of Shem?”) on the promotion of the Psalms (and the singing of them!) in
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 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 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
Continue readingExperiential religion is knowing the Triune God personally. It is described by F.W. Krummacher in his sermons on the life of David in the sermon on David calling Mephibosheth to himself in 2 Samuel 9. Krummacher writes, Until that time he [the sinner awakened out of his death-sleep]] knew Him
Continue readingFrom the pen of Samuel Miller regarding the growth and development of false teaching and heresy, When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another
Continue readingThe calling of the believer in Christ while interacting with unbelievers and adherents to other religions is to strive to get to the conviction of sin, which only the Holy Spirit can work, but also should guide our approach. Stating it simply, in the unregenerate person’s religious life and efforts,
Continue readingThe end of the year of our Lord, 2024 is quickly approaching. “End-of-years” supply us with an opportunity to reflect on end-of-life. Numerous blessings are found in living lie “backwards” to have the days of our lives illuminated by the reality of our mortality. The Heidelberg Catechism, a 16th-century reformed
Continue readingAdolphe Monod was an eloquent and insightful French Pastor in the 1800’s. In his book on the incarnation, The Incarnation and Beyond, he wrestles through the importance of the incarnation of the Son of God for the accomplishment of redemption, but is not willing to only leave it at that. The
Continue readingThe accomplishment of redemption required that the Son of God take a human body – which He willingly did and rejoiced to do so! This, I think, is often undervalued – a believer’s interest in the body of the Lord Jesus. The 19th-century Scottish pastor Hugh Martin has provided edifying
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