by John Owen – March 23rd, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 2). The way whereby we should know God We know little of God, because it is faith alone by which we know Him here. I shall not now discourse about the remaining impressions on the hearts of all men by … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
Question: “How is eternity in hell a fair punishment for sin?” Answer: Many people are uncomfortable, to say the least, with the idea of an eternal hell. This discomfort, though, is often the result of an incomplete understanding of three things: the nature of God, the nature of man, and the nature of sin. As fallen, … More Is hell fair?
Why Hell Still Belongs in a Christian Worldview by: John Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris If you think of American Christianity as a pendulum, we’re currently at the opposite extreme from the First Great Awakening. When Jonathan Edwards preached his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” ¹ he compared human beings with spiders, … More BreakPoint: A Lack of Judgment?
6 Let the one who is taught the word share all his good things with the teacher. 7 Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap, 8 because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the … More Do you A Sow?
by John Owen – March 22nd, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God d. Our unacquaintance with our end The apostle tells us in 1 John 3:2 that we know not what we ourselves shall be, what we shall find ourselves in the end. Much less will it enter into our hearts to conceive … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
JOHN NEWTON CONVERTED BY AMAZING GRACE DAN GRAVES, MSL To be at sea in a storm on an ocean liner can be thrilling. To face a storm in a sailing vessel that is not seaworthy can be terrifying. The boat in which John Newton sailed was in disrepair and its sails and rigging worn. A … More Today in Church History
SOURCE This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5 (KJV) I do not know about you but when I was a young child I did not like the darkness very much. It hid … More God is light
by John Owen – March 19th, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 8. Exercise Yourself to Meditate upon God The eighth preparatory direction for the mortification of sin is: Use and exercise yourself to such meditations as may serve to fill you at all times with self-abasement and thoughts of your own vileness. … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
I posted this not to be political commentary as much as a comment on Godly living. Kudos to Vice President Mike Pence. – Mike A firebrand Democratic senator is tearing into Vice President Mike Pence because he takes safeguards to protect himself and his marriage. One of the unwritten rules in the 2020 campaign is … More Hypocrisy on the Hill: Pence’s rule ‘ridiculous,’ says Kamala
by John Owen – March 19th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 6. Watch against Sin’s Advantages The sixth direction for mortification is: Consider what occasions, what advantages, your distemper has taken to exert and put forth itself and watch against them all. This is one part of that duty which our … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
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