Category Archives: Notable and Quotable
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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Notable and Quotable — Peter Grainger on Preaching
Perhaps the greatest beneficiary of the sermon is the preacher himself, for only the message which is first of all addressed and applied to me will carry any real authenticity when preached to others. In order for this to happen, … Continue reading
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Notable and Quotable – Kevin DeYoung
FOREWORD Writing a foreword is funny business. Even though I’ve asked plenty of people to write a foreword for my books, now that I’m writing one for someone else I have to stop and think what they’re for. I suppose … Continue reading
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Notable and Quotable — R.C. Sproul on Satan
16 “The Angel of Light“ One of the things that’s most often overlooked about the nature of Satan is his metamorphic character. When we speak of metamorphosis, we speak of that which changes in its outward appearance. For instance, the … Continue reading →
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