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Plenty and Variety in God Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:35:15 +0000 I used to have a sense of God as being one-dimensional. Big, strong, perfect--but more like a big, strong, perfect statue. I imagined that once I saw him, I would see all there was to see, and I couldn't really imagine getting to know him throughout the course of eternity. Maybe this kind of thinking [...] Item Category: Theology Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=279#comments
Emotionalism and Worship Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:17:34 +0000 I linked yesterday to a Chuck Colson column that opened with criticism of contemporary worship music and led into warnings regarding increasing anti-intellectualism in the church today. This morning I read a response to the criticism of contemporary worship by Sam Storms (via Justin Taylor), and it has me thinking. When people object that certain styles [...] Item Category: Church Life Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=278#comments
Apply Your Heart to Instruction Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:54:12 +0000 Charles Colson writes in a Christianity Today column entitled "Soothing Ourselves to Death": But the gospel above all else is revealed propositional truth'-truth that speaks to all of life. Yes, the gospel is simple enough for a child to understand. Yet if you want to study doctrine and worldview, you need the capacity to think. You [...] Item Category: Theology Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=277#comments
The Preacher, Psalm 29, and Calvin Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:02:08 +0000 It is essentially necessary, if we would fortify our minds against temptation, to have suitably exalted views of the power and mercy of God, since nothing will more effectually preserve us in a straight and undeviating course, than a firm persuasion that all events are in the hand of God, and that he is as [...] Item Category: Scripture Reflections Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=276#comments
George Mueller and the Bible Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:38:05 +0000 George Mueller, nineteenth-century founder of orphanages in England, is best known for his unshakeable trust in God's provision for the needs of his ministry. The short biographies I have read point to his faith and his prayer life, as well as his compassion for the needy. But I have also read that in his lifetime [...] Item Category: Scripture Reflections Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=275#comments
Bible Reading, Memorizing, Meditating Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:29:07 +0000 Our adult Sunday school class is considering spiritual disciplines this quarter. The past two weeks have been on the topic of Bible intake, surely a foundational discipline. I have been thinking a lot about Bible intake in the past couple years, and a few comments in yesterday's class struck a nerve with me. Last week when [...] Item Category: Scripture Reflections Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=274#comments
Laws Concerning Leprosy Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:45:44 +0000 As I opened my Bible this morning to my next chapter of Leviticus, I was dismayed to read the heading "Laws About Leprosy." I was also dismayed by the length of the chapter--over three columns of text barely interrupted by footnotes. I suspect this is a familiar feeling among people reading through the Old Testament. [...] Item Category: Scripture Reflections Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=273#comments
Pursuing Instruction Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:13:40 +0000 Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. (Proverbs 19:27)Why should this be true? When I was six years old, I went off to first grade and began to learn phonics. I no longer hear that instruction, but I haven't strayed from the principles I learned there in [...] Item Category: Scripture Reflections Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=272#comments
Our God, a Consuming Fire Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:06:09 +0000 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared [...] Item Category: Scripture Reflections Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=271#comments
A.W. Pink on the Wrath of God, Spurgeon on the Grace of God Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:22:27 +0000 The wrath of God is a perfection of the Divine character on which we need to meditate frequently. First, that our hearts may be duly impressed by God's detestation of sin. We are ever prone to regard sin lightly, to gloss over its hideousness, to make excuses for it. But the more we study and [...] Item Category: Theology Item comments: http://blog.honeypot-hollow.com/?p=270#comments
