In this article you’ll find the 3 functions of the heart according to the Bible, and how they relate to each other. This will help you. begin to see why you do what you do, so you can begin to confront the patterns of your flesh.
I just came across this, which I thought was well put (as many of Ryle’s thoughts are). See the Lord Jesus Christ despised and rejected of men, scourged, mocked, and insulted–look at Him bleeding on the cross of Calvary–hear Him crying in agony, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Note how the …
Jay Adams on reconciling God and evil. Simply this: God controls all things, even the existence and activity of evil. We must remove the word “allows” when speaking of God and evil. He doesn’t merely allow evil to occur. If so, there would be another power, or force, in the universe as great as (or …
Kris Lungaard spent some time reading John Owens work on the mortification of sin and shrunk it down into a book that all believers should read, The Enemy Within. This is a great book. In it he focuses on how the mind, affections and the will are all involved in sin. “Each of the faculties …
From “Instruments in the redeemers hands” by Paul Tripp, p39-41 (the entire book is assigned reading for this week). In explaining Genesis 1:26-28 Tripp makes the point that there is something unique about God stopping and actually speaking to the two humans he had just created. He hadn’t done this with other creatures; for previous …
Just a quick thought from a reading I did last week for one of my courses. Often the fact that God seeks His own glory is used as an example by unbelievers of God being less than perfectly good because he is self-seeking. However, the concept presented by the word of God is that the Trinity …
Note that this follows the previous post on propitiation (i.e. appeasement of wrath). We mentioned last time that propitiation means that the righteous wrath of God toward sinners has been appeased and that propitiation was done in Christ. It is this propitiation that glorifies God by making the exhibition of many of His attributes possible. …
While many in the west deny the supernatural altogether, we must be careful not to do the same. The Lord interacts with His creation supernaturally as well as through natural means. Moreover, there is a supernatural element at work today that we need to be aware of. One of the devils greatest achievements is convincing …