Category Archives: Notable and Quotable
Wishing all of our readers a blessed Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers. In honor of this special day, we wanted to share this quote from Stephen Charnock. It reminds us of the love and thankfulness due God for our crucified Redeemer. Evidence of His Love We love … Continue reading
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Robert Murray McCheyne on the Song of Solomon
On 14 August 1836, a young man, who was later to have a remarkable ministry, preached a sermon as a candidate for the position of minister in a new congregation. He chose to expound a passage from the Song of … Continue reading
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Notable and Quotable – Carrie Sandom
The growing feminisation of our society has had a huge impact on the workplace, but it’s our families and our churches that are feeling it the most. ‘Having it all’ may be the dream of many twenty-first century women, but … Continue reading
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Why Doesn’t God Intervene?
19. Why doesn’t God Intervene? As I look at the violence and persecution of the world today, at the ethnic and sectarian strife, I long for God to intervene. Surely he could put these things right at a single stroke. … Continue reading
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Dale Ralph Davis on Finding God in the Darkness by Irene Howat
A decade ago I was browsing in the bookstore of the seminary where I was teaching. On the used book shelves I spied a copy of Irene Howat’s Finding God in the Darkness. I bought and read it. Not long … Continue reading
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Notable and Quotable – J. I. Packer
J. I. Packer J. I. Packer is Professor of Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada and was named by Time Magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals alive. The Bible meant nothing to me at all as a child. … Continue reading
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Notable and Quotable — Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Gratitude
Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers. In honor of this special day, we thought this quote by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones would be especially appropriate. It reminds us that being grateful is evidence that God has opened our hearts and minds … Continue reading
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Notable and Quotable – Thomas Goodwin on Christ’s Continual Saving Work
…the whole work of our salvation, first and last, and every part of it, every step and degree of accomplishment of it, should be so ordered as he should continue still to have as great and continual a hand in … Continue reading
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Linda Finlayson on How to Make a Book in Ancient Times
How to Make a Book in Ancient Times: The first ‘books’ were written on surfaces that people had to hand: flat stone, large wooden tablets and tablets made of clay. To write on those surfaces people used a variety of … Continue reading
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Noel Due on Worship in the Biblical Prologue
Chapter 2 Worship in the Biblical Prologue (Genesis 1–11) Introduction Having seen something of the dimensions of the battle for worship in the previous chapter, we are now about to embark on a brief, but necessary, overview of the matter … Continue reading
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