Posted in some thoughts on Sep 15th, 2004
Jim Elliot Sermons, 1951 I listened to ‘resurrection,’ a sermon he preached at age 24. He makes a very insightful point, that the simplicity of the gospel is in the resurrection of Christ Jesus. The idea of resurrection seems also to be behind a lot of the letters of Paul. “Dead, thou shalt die.” Very [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 14th, 2004
I do not buy that some people, when discussing their disagreement with the doctrine of election, “don’t understand it.” The propositions set forth are quite intelligible: “Jacob have I loved; Esau have I hated.” “It is not of him who wills or runs, but of God…that his purpose according to election might stand.” I think [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 13th, 2004
It seems a vicious circle: the holy spirit doesn’t speak today so we must rely only on the finished bible for direction. The finished bible tells us that the holy spirit has ceased speaking, so we mustn’t look for guidance elsewhere. doesn’t looking only into scripture for the answer to the question ‘does God lead [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 12th, 2004
“Surely there is more to preaching Christ crucified than saying ‘Christ was crucified’!” – Martin Luther, De Servo Arbitrio (Or, The Bondage of the Will)
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 11th, 2004
Finished John Owen’s Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity today (appendices excepted). It was very helpful–very clarifying of the real issues: i) what does the bible say? ii) do I believe it? Jesus was crucified for blasphemy. They took up stones to kill him because in his words they heard “I [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 9th, 2004
Just had a wonderful time with the Hiltzes. Without question a God-honoring conversation–all three of us have been greatly encouraged and edified and humbled at what the Lord has done in our lives. I am also greatly encouraged at what he is doing and will do in my own. I shared–at length–my testimony and am [...]
Posted in ONELIFE on Sep 9th, 2004
If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. [1 Corinthians 15:19] I read this verse the other day and I thought: “Why?” Why, if this Christian life is a blessed life, and if it is filled only with ease, comfort, health, safety, security, prosperity, [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 8th, 2004
Yesterday I had my phone trial to decide whether or not I would lose my right to operate a motor vehicle in the State of Maine for 15 days (due to point accumulation). I think I may have made it appear that giving teens rides was part of my job requirements rather than something subsidiary. [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 7th, 2004
I don’t know if I noted it here or not, but one of the things I was most impacted by in Elisabeth Elliot’s Passion and Purity was how they both so rigorously studied and applied scripture to their lives. It was the application of scriptural principles they’d gleaned out of rigorous study that was so [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Sep 2nd, 2004
Cessationism | Grace Online Library. If Spiritual Authority is placed in a book, then the study of that book becomes absolutely vital to the world and life view of every Christian. And that study should be in the original autographs–or at least as close as possible. This view would undermine and destroy outright any ideas [...]
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