New eBook Reader from Adobe
I highly recommend you download Adobe's relatively new ebook reader: Adobe - Digital Editions. It makes reading pdf ebooks very easy on the eyes. I used to hate reading ebooks in pdf format because it...
View ArticleSuffering: An Answer to Prayer?
I have been reading an excellent book by the Puritan John Flavel (1630-1691), entitled Keeping the Heart. I've pasted below a little excerpt (help 6) from his list of 9 helps keep your heart amidst...
View ArticleHistory Has a Purpose
On 1 Chronicles: History is not accidental and without purpose...Of course, we can speak of history having purpose only if it has a purposer - a creator, director, and sovereign...That purposing ruler...
View ArticleQuote: Admiring Self For That Which Has Been Given
"What a monster of pride is man! How full of that cursed venom, is human nature! We cannot receive any grace or blessing from the Lord--but corrupt nature is prone to be proud of it--and to boast in...
View ArticleQuote: Zeal AND Informed Obedience
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 14-15, when after God had struck down Uzzah for touching the ark, David realized that they had not been transporting it and worshipping God rightly, D.A. Carson writes Here...
View ArticleQuote: Have Communion With God in the Doctrine You Contend For
Wise advise from John Owen on how we are to approach the controversy that may be necessarily involved in contending for the truth of the gospel, having communion with the God of whom the doctrine...
View ArticleText Selection: Freedom or Verse-by-Verse
From John Piper, commenting on how a pastor (or teaching church leader) must think about text selection. This was written in the first months of his pastorate at Bethlehem Baptist. It's a very good...
View ArticleReturn to the Word of God: The Commonality in Judah's Revivals
There were five revival periods during the times of the divided kingdoms of Judah and Israel. These were all identified by a return to the Word of God. They began with a return to the Word of God;...
View ArticleIncomprehensibility Means We Will Never Run Out of Things to Delight In
Consider heaven, an eternity with God, where our access to Him has been fully opened and where we no longer have the curse of sin tainting our ability and desire to delight in Him: Thus, we may know...
View ArticleBelief In a Sovereign God Shows Itself In a Commitment to Prayer
Belief in a sovereign God shows itself in a commitment to prayer Mark Dever Message of the Old Testament: Promises Made "Ezra" p. 397
View ArticleWhat Am I Most Aware Of?
When we live more aware of what we need to do than of what Christ has already done, we're drifting [from grace to self-effort]. Dave Harvey When Sinners Say "I Do" p. 146
View ArticleCome To God's Word Like It Was the Last Work I May Ever Hear
It may be the last time that God will ever speak to us in his Word; it may be the last sermon that we shall ever hear; we may go from the place of hearing to the place of judging. If people would...
View ArticleDistinct & Countercultural In Our Repentance -Dever
In a fallen world, so many things that come easy are not right; and so many things that are right, don’t come easy. So let’s pray for one another. Pray for our church, that we will be a community...
View Article"I Almost Never Go To Movies"
I almost never go to movies. The reason is very simple: there are almost no movies that don’t ask me to be entertained by attitudes, motives, and actions which Jesus died to eradicate. John Piper...
View ArticleShepherding My Heart From Pride & Anxiety
Piper, on 1 Peter 5:6-7 (Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxieties on Him for He cares for you), preached the...
View ArticlePrinted Word: Multiplying of God's Words
It is scarcely to be conceived how great a benefit has arisen to the Christian cause from the invention of printing. The word of God is that whereby the work of salvation is principally carried on in...
View ArticleReview: Hebrew Tutor Software (3/5 Stars)
Hebrew Tutor is a program that will basically give you the equivalence of a first semester seminary-level course in Hebrew. Beginning with the alphabet and ending by translating the book of Ruth,...
View ArticleThe Gospel and the Room of My Life
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood...
View ArticleThe One Thing We Need Most Urgently (Quote: DA Carson)
The one thing we most urgently need in Western Christendom is a deeper knowledge of God. We need to know God better. When it comes to knowing God, we are a culture of the spiritually stunted. So much...
View ArticlePlan to Pray (Quote: D.A. Carson)
Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we...
View ArticleDisobedience: An Acceptance of Athiesm
Disobedience always involves the acceptance of atheism, whether so stated in words or merely acted on in life (there is no significant difference between denying God's existence and acting as if God...
View ArticleLimited Atonement & God's Love
"It is necessary for believers to understand the special nature of God's love for them. 'The Son of God loved me and gave himself for me' (Gal 2:20), is not a statement that gives security to all. To...
View ArticleGospel Perspective in Trials
More than anything else I could ever do, the gospel enables me to embrace my tribulations and thereby position myself to gain full benefit from them. For the gospel is the one great permanent...
View ArticleNine Inch Nails Helping Me Concentrate While Reading Even the Bible: Ghosts I-IV
Without a word on the entire 4-disc album, Ghosts I-IV is an excellent instrumental album, ranging in feel from gentle and smooth and hard and grating. Unlike much in the ambient, industrial,...
View ArticleJohn Newton on Being Gracious in Controversy
Excellent gospel-informed advice from John Newton that I must read, consider, and live by whenever in controversy: As to your opponent, I wish, that, before you set pen to paper against him, and...
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Review: LiquidAUX iPod/iPhone Remote Control for Your Car
I have fallen in love with the Kensington LiquidAUX. It is ingeniously designed and is an inexpensive option for safely using your iPod while in the car. If you want the aesthetically most pleasing...
View ArticleDiscerningReader & Choosing What to Read
First on the list of ways that John Piper chooses what to read is Recommendations. There are thousands upon thousands of books out there, most of them garbage, many worthwhile, and a few precious...
View ArticleAt The Cross and Nowhere Else (Quote - Leahy)
If you would have eternal life and go to heaven when you die, then remember that you cannot by-pass the cross. It is here you see your Saviour. It is here your sins are forgiven. It is here you are...
View ArticleThe Clothes Christ Lost
"Ah, the shame of crucifixion as God's well-beloved Son was stripped naked, according to custom, and nailed to a cross, exposed to public view. Think of that! you do not want to look. One's instinct...
View ArticleRepentance Must Be the Goal (Quote: Leahy)
Repentance was a dominant note in apostolic preaching. this has been equally the case in tiems of revival and spiritual awakening. People begin to see sin as god sees it - Rebellion agaisnt God. They...
View ArticlePoisoning Yourself from the Gilded Pill of Popular Entertainment-Spurgeon
Writing of London's Christian's undiscerning consumption of the media of the day (opera), Spurgeon writes the following. How much more applicable is this to us today. Have you exposed yourself to any...
View ArticleNever Once Has He Pardoned An Unpunished Sin
God “will not acquit the wicked;” how prove I this? I prove it thus. Never once has he pardoned an unpunished sin; not in all the years of the Most High, not in all the days of his right hand, has...
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Amazon Gift Cards, Hantla.com, & My Birthday
This blog is my corner of the web where through writing I force myself to to diligent in thought. It acts as a diary of sorts, documenting through quotes what I'm reading, through essays what I'm...
View ArticleA Baby Preaching: Less Content; Less Error; More Excitement!
In what was described by his brother as a "powerful move of God" a baby, the son of the preacher, takes the mic and begins to "preach". It is far better than what the congregation was used to and...
View ArticleWe Are All Very Committed and Gifted Self-Swindlers (Quote: Paul David Tripp)
Sin lives in a costume; that why it's so hard to recognize. The fact that sin looks so good is one of the things that make it so bad. In order for it to do its evil work, it must present itself as...
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Review: Amazon Kindle for Christians
After one month and a dozen books of using my new Amazon.com Kindle, I can recommend it most enthusiastically. The Kindle is basically an electronic book reader with wireless connectivity. Using...
View ArticleApologetics for the Glory of God by John Frame (Review)
I have read almost a dozen apologetics texts over the last year, and in my estimation, Apologetics for the Glory of God by John Frame should be the first book you read on the subject. Let John Frame...
View ArticleTimothy Brindle: Killing Sin
I have been loving Timothy Brindle's second album Killing Sin, for many months now. You know a cd's gonna be good when it's based on mortification of sin making frequent use of John Owen Tracklist...
View ArticleDon't Lead Your Church Into Religious Busy-ness (Quote: A.W. Tozer)
Don’t for one second let the…bustle of religous activity, a surge of religious thinking fool you into thinking that there is a lot of spirituality…Actually, our craze for activity brings few enriching...
View ArticleCarbonite Online Backup Saved the Day Once Again
Thank God for Carbonite! I have had Carbonite online backup software installed on my computer for two years now. In that time I have had two catastrophic computer failures (practically all data lost...
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Review: Michael Logozar - Coming Into View (Get it FREE through Noisetrade)
I have had Michael Logozar's album Coming Into View for only a few days and have played it a half dozen times. It is an all-instrumental piano album. For 48 minutes and 10 tracks, Logozar manages to...
View ArticleReview: Warchild by Emmanuel Jal; And How You Can Help
Born in Tonj, South Sudan in approximately 1980, all that Jal Jok (later renamed Emmanuel Jal) knew was civil war. By the time that most children around the world are learning to swing on monkey bars...
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Merry Christmas From The Hantlas
Merry Christmas from the Hantlas...all three of us. A highlight of this year, and an answer to many years of prayer, was the addition of Elianna Joel to our family on May 17. Her name means "My God...
View ArticleFree CD: Lampmode Grassroots
This morning, I was reminded of God's consuming holiness before which I could never hope to stand...apart from the cross. In an excellent devotional, I had the holiness of God expounded to me, making...
View ArticleMy Heart Must Be Affected
I just started reading Edwards' "Treatise Concerning Religious Affections" and this paragraph summarizes well the reasons why I must never be content to leave my heart and affections unaffected when...
View ArticleSinners in the Hands of an Angry God: How Does God Relate To You Apart From...
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is the text of a sermon that Jonathan Edwards preached to his congregation. I know of no author/preacher who is more consistently captivated by God's glory in his...
View ArticleReview: Norton Antivirus 2009
I have been protecting my PCs and those of my family members with Norton Antivirus for about 10 years now. None of those computers have ever gotten a virus. Not one. That speaks volumes to me of the...
View ArticleReview: Philips NP2500 Network Music Player
The Philips NP2500 Network Music Player is a device that connects wireless (or via ethernet) to your home network and internet connection. It uses this connection to access and play music files. The...
View ArticleReview: Is Christianity Good For the World by Hitchens & Wilson
Christopher Hitchens, an outspoken atheist and anti-theist, entered into a written debate with the witty pastor and theologian, Douglas Wilson. The debate was sponsored by Christianity Today. The...
View ArticleTemporary Quasi-Hiatus in Blogging
It is obvious I'm not blogging as much. This is due to an increasingly busy schedule. I have now just begun school for the next 2-and-a-quarter years. I am now planning on only very minimally...
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