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Questioning God’s Greatest Commandment
by Pilgrim
Yesterday at 05:47 AM
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Curiosity Question
by Tom
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:52 PM
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Bruce Waltke: Another Theistic Evolutionist Comes Out of the Closet
by Pilgrim
Saturday, March 1, 2014 6:10 AM
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More Depravity
by Tom
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:06 PM
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Pat Robertson
by Tom
Monday, February 24, 2014 9:40 PM
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"The Tyranny of the Experts" - G.I. Williamson
by Robin
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:53 AM
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Beloved, ‘let the word of God dwell in you plenteously,’ Col. iii. 16. Do not give it a cold entertainment, as you would do to a stranger, and so take your leave of it; but esteem it as your best familiar and bosom friend: making it your chamber-fellow study-fellow, bed-fellow. Let it have the best room and the best bed; the parlour of our conscience, the resting-place in our heart. Neglected things are outside the door, less respected within, but near the door. The more worthy things are not trusted to the safety of one door, but kept under many locks and keys. Give earthly things little regard, preserve them with a more removed care. But this pearl of inestimable value, Matt, xiii. 46, this jewel purer than gold of Ophir, Ps. cxix. 127; lay it not up in the porter’s lodge, the outward ear, but in the cabinet and most inward closure of thy heart. Deut. xi. 18, ‘Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul.’ —Thomas Adams
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I conclude with a few words of advice to all in general, in some particulars, which are of great importance in order to the future welfare and prosperity of this church and congregation.
1. One thing that greatly concerns you, as you would be a happy people, is the maintaining of family order.
We have had great disputes how the church ought to be regulated, and indeed the subject of these disputes was of great importance. But the due regulation of your families is of no less, and, in some respects, of much greater importance. Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief of the means of grace. If these fail, all other means are like to prove ineffectual. If these are daily maintained, all the means of grace will be like to prosper and be successful.
Let me now therefore, once more, before I finally cease to speak to this congregation, repeat and earnestly press the counsel which I have often urged on heads of families, while I was their pastor, to great painfulness in teaching, warning, and directing their children: bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, beginning early when there is yet opportunity, and maintaining a constant diligence in labors of this kind. Remember that as you would not have all your instructions and counsels ineffectual, there must be government as well as instructions, which must be maintained with an even hand, and steady resolution, as a guard to the religion and morals of the family, and the support of its good order. Take heed that it be not with any of you as with Eli of old, who reproved his children, but restrained them not, and that, by this means, you do not bring the like curse on your families as he did on his.
And let children obey their parents, and yield to their instructions, and submit to their orders, as they would inherit a blessing and not a curse. For we have reason to think, from many things in the Word of God, that nothing has a greater tendency to bring a curse on persons in this world, and on all their temporal concerns, than an undutiful, unsubmissive, disorderly behavior in children towards their parents."—Jonathan Edwards
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This month's Article of the Month is quite sad, actually. The author, Dr. Paul M. Elliott exposes yet another alleged conservative "scholar" as being anything but conservative. I think it is extremely important that such revelations be widely known else the deception foisted by such men as Bruce Waltke and similar professors/teachers in purported conservative colleges and seminaries will lead many unknowingly astray. Doubtless, there are many who will simply bury their head in the sand and dismiss such reports as spurious or at best extremely rare and exaggerated. Such individuals think that 'all is well' and blindly support their favorite teacher, church, denomination or academic institution where heretical teachings are being promoted and those teaching them are never disciplined.
So... although the article is rather short in comparison to the typical Article of the Month, it is jam-packed with much to ponder.
Read it here: Bruce Waltke: Another Theistic Evolutionist Comes Out of the Closet.
In His service and grace,
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I am curious in finding out if anyone reading this has experienced what O am about to say.
I am a person who likes to share what I am learning from Scripture and other studies such as some of the articles that I have read on the Highway as well as other subjects.
The problem however, is that when I share some of these things in many cases, what I say goes right over the head of those who read what I have to say.
For example, I did a study about Charles Finney and mentioned in it that I was puzzled why he was so popular with the likes of many evangelicals. I provided information on heretical teaching of Charles Finney and asked for feedback.
Among the responses I received was that I was supporting Roman Catholism and another said they didn't understands I was saying.
My pastor read what I said and said I was very clear and said a lot more in support of what I was saying.
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