lloyd-jones on j. edwards
Indeed I am tempted, perhaps foolishly, to compare the Puritans to the Alps, Luther and Calvin to the Himalayas, and Jonathan Edwards to Mount Everest! He has always seemed to me to be the man most like the apostle Paul. Of course, Whitefield was a great and might preacher as was Daniel Rowland but so … Read more
Quote
It is right to feel we should like to know we are forgiven; it is right to feel we should like to be delivered from that sin – all that is perfectly legitimate – but if those things come before desiring to know God, then our whole attitude is very wrong and faulty. Could it … Read more
assurance
Then there are those who are unable to say [that they are children of God] because they fear that it will be claiming too much. The feel that it would be a kind of presumption. They say, “As I see and know myself it surely would be wrong for me to claim that I am … Read more
quickly…
Jan 27, 2009 Oakland, CA I’m procrastinating… or finding it hard to catch up with work. The part of my brain that handles rush orders is sorta dysfunctional so it might be better just to take some time and just get things done at a moderate pace. ♦ I’ve been reading a bit of Martyn … Read more
We are not natural men…
We must not think of ourselves as ordinary people. We are not natural men; we are born again. God has given His Holy Spirit, and He is the spirit “of power and of love and of a sound mind”. Therefore to those who are particularly prone to spiritual depression through timorous fear of the future, … Read more
Well, stop looking at yourself…
Today, as it’s been so far this week, was beautiful up in Berkeley. It was a clear warm autumn day. I had to return some library books, so I took a stroll down Benvenue towards Ashby and took a few pictures. After seeing some Cezzanne and Pissaro paintings, I figured I’d try taking different types … Read more
