Follow the leader

Seeing my friend Chris jump ship to wordpress got me thinking and I checked it out for myself. Have to say, I find it to be superior myself, so see you later as I follow the leader. You can follow me too if ya like

How far is too far in the war against drunk driving?

Check this out, must have been late nights in the marketing department.

Blessedness In Practice: Gratitude

"To you that have any good hope through grace that you have a title to blessedness, let me say as the Levites did to the people, 'Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever' (Nehemiah 9:5). What infinite cause have you to be thankful that the lot of free grace is fallen upon you! Though you had forfeited all, yet God has provided a haven of happiness, and he is carrying you thither upon the sea of Christ's blood, the gale of his Spirit blowing your sails. You are in a better condition through Christ, than when you had robes of innocency upon you. God has raised you a step higher by your fall. How many has God passed by and looked upon you! Millions there are who shall lie under the bitter vials of God's curses, whereas he will bring you into his banqueting-house and pour out flagons of wine and feast you eternally with the delicacies of heaven. O adore free grace; triumph in this love of God. Spend and be spent for the Lord. Dedicate yourselves to him in a way of resignation, and lay out yourselves in a way of gratulation. Never think you do enough for that God who will shortly set you ashore in the land of promise."
THOMAS WATSON

A favorite puritan of mine, he has always been encouraging to me, perhaps he will be to others as well.

The Escape From Our Inner Child, Narcissus

Heidelberg Catechism 60

Question: How are you righteous before God?

Answer: Only by true faith is Jesus Christ. Although my conscience accuses me that I have grievously sinned against all God's commandments, have never kept any of them, and am still inclined to all evil, yet God, without any merit of my own, out of mere grace, imputes to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ. He grants these to me as if I had never had nor committed any sin, and as if I myself had accomplished all the obedience which Christ has rendered for me, if only I accept this gift with a believing heart.

A reminder that our confidence, our assurance is not found inward, it is not found in the piety or theological savvy we may display. No, rather it is found in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. It is an accomplished, historical act; we can add nothing, we must only accept this gift with faith.

A Day of Reckoning

Yet another example as to why ecclessiology is so important. Check the story out in Christianity Today here.

Dr. Kim Riddlebarger has an excellent response to this issue of a malformed or altogether absent ecclessiology here.

I think that at some point that we have all wanted to do this.

http://iparklikeanidiot.com/

Late night ramblings

Yet we must insist that the Divine speech both heralds and provides the necessary interpretive framework for redemption. Apart from his speech as the referent of his actions, the purpose of God in history would be unintelligible, supervised by the autonomous subjectivism of the creature rather than a unified, objective construct provided by the Creator.