“If I had to bring even one ‘sigh’ to my salvation, then I would be lost forever.” In a conversation with Hendrik de Cock, a founder of the Separatist church in Holland; Ron Gleason, Herman Bavinck: Pastor, Churchman, Statesman, and Theologian (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2010), 436.
December 17, 2010
“. . . in the Gospel and in faith the divine will is revealed and realized. This is the reason why the religious conception of the Gospel and of faith is with the Reformers most intimately connected with their belief in predestination. We in our time no longer understand this. We have lost the habit… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
“He discovered that man in his fundamental need of a changed relation to God had not changed at all: ‘All the changes about which men boast so much are external,’ he observed. ‘They are not changes in man himself, but merely in his mode of activity, in his environment.’” Lloyd-Jones commenting on what he saw… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
”Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one has some little immortal spark concealed about him. You would not think it, to look at them. There is no a priori probability about it. A strange enigma is man!” “Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal,” I suggested “Winwood Reade is good upon the subject… [Read more…]
August 3, 2010
“Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about ‘man’s search for God.’ To me, as I then was, they might as well have talked about the mouse’s search for the cat. . . . [God was] Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet.” C. S. Lewis (Surprised by Joy); cited in Dick Keyes,Seeing Through Cynicism:… [Read more…]
March 2, 2010
“I was in some degree affected with a sense of my enormous sins, but I was little aware of the innate evils of my heart. I had no apprehension of the spirituality and extent of the law of God; or of the hidden life of a Christian, as it consists in communion with God by… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
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