In Faith he Dy’d; in Dust he lies But faith foresees that Dust shall rise When JESUS calls, while Hope Assumes And boasts her joy among the tombs from the grave of Alexander Peronneau, 12 year old boy, died 1747, found in the graveyard of the Circular Congregational Church Charleston, South CarolinaHope, from the grave of a 12-year-old
In Faith he Dy’d; in Dust he lies But faith foresees that Dust shall rise When JESUS calls, while Hope Assumes And boasts her joy among the tombs from the grave of Alexander Peronneau, 12 year old boy, died 1747, found in the graveyard of the Circular Congregational Church Charleston, South Carolina
Richard Baxter, from The Reformed Pastor, chapter 1: The most holy men are the most excellent students of God’s works, and none but the holy can rightly study them or know them. His works are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein,” but not for themselves, but for him that made them. Your study of physics and other sciences is not worth a rush, if it be not God that you seek after in them. To see and admire, to reverence and adore, to love and delight in God, as exhibited in his works—this is the true and only…
Today (July 7) in 1878, Francis Grimké was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He was born in Charleston, SC to a white father (a slaveholding planter) and an enslaved mother (of European and African descent). He would eventually move North, graduate from Princeton Theological Seminary (studying under the Hodges and other leading Old School Presbyterian lights) and become the Pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. To learn more about Grimké, read Thabiti Anyabwile’s The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing…
This day in 1962 (July 5) the famous American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr died. He wrote an important book Christ and Culture and in his work The Kingdom of God in America he criticized liberal social gospel teaching, describing its…
A Prayer for Hope. For those in desperate need of it. Heavenly Father, My hope is faint today. Help me. Help me to endure when I feel no hope. Forge a hope-producing character in me. Do not let me be ashamed.
Kevin DeYoung, Al Mohler and I recently sat down to talk about the importance of inerrancy for preaching. Here’s a short clip of the video. We will be part of an Inerrancy Summit at The Shepherd’s Conference, March 3-8, 2015. For more…
Archibald Alexander has some fascinating observations in his chapter “Imperfect Sanctification.–The Spiritual Warfare” in his famous book Thoughts on Religious Experience (1841) that are relevant to current discussions in the Reformed family on…