January 2010
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Waking Up to Find This - Pendleton, SC
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Reverence for the Sabbath - Author Unknown to me
Having lived not without habitual reverence for the Sabbath, yet without that attention to its religious duties which Christianity requires, [I resolve]: 1. To rise early and in order to it, to go to sleep early on Saturday. 2. To use some extraordinary devotions in the morning. 3. To examine the tenor of my life, and particularly the last week; and to mark my advances in religion, or recession...
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Timms Mill's Beaver Trail with the boys. Yes it is...
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Timms Mill (Pendleton, SC) Producing the Finest...
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Westminster Assembly Project Press Release →
Chad VanDixhoorn’s diligent labors on the Westminster Assembly Project will greatly benefit the church. Vandixhoorn, together with John Bower, has agreed to publish several important…
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Hidden - Thomas Watson
The saints of God are called His hidden ones - Psalm 83:3. Why so? Not only because they are hid in God’s decree, and hid in Christ’s wounds, but oftentimes God hides them in a time of danger and calamity. He reserved to Himself seven thousand that had not bowed the knee to Baal. The prophet knew not where there was one, but God knew there were seven thousand. Thomas Watson ...
How to organize your car and why →
How to organize your car and why
It’s a new year and that usually means there is a fresh list of resolutions ready to be tackled and possibly broken. While…
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Books, Books, Books, and Coffee Beans - Al Mohler
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Books I'm Reading
My brother posted a question at his ministry’s blog about What Books Are You Reading. For some reason, I could not “Comment” on his page, so I am going to comment here. 1776 by McCullough The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms (40 day challenge) George Whitefield biography by Dallimore, volume 1 and volume 2 Reading through the Bible using the ESV Study Bible plan ...
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The Finished Work of Christ - JC Ryle
“We rest our souls on a ‘finished work,’ if we rest them on the work of Jesus Christ the Lord. We need not fear that either sin, or Satan, or law shall condemn us at the last day. We may lean back on the thought, that we have a Savior who has done all, paid all, accomplished all, performed all that is necessary for our salvation.”~ J.C. Ryle Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John, volume 3,...
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Stonewall Jackson
this post originated at Pastor Jim Wilkerson’s blog. A hero came among us, as we slept, At first he lowly knelt, then rose and wept, Then gathering up a thousand spears, He swept across the field of Mars, Then bowed farewell, and walked among the stars In the land where we were dreaming. George L. Christian It is important that we remember those who have gone before us and especially on...
Amazing Story of Not Looking for Excuses Why One...
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Upcoming Christian Conferences
Ligonier Winter Conference (January 22-23, 2010)Desiring God Pastors Conference (February 1-3, 2010)The Nature and Sufficiency of Scripture (Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary – March 9-11)Ligonier West Coast Conference (March 26-27, 2010)Together for the Gospel (April 13-15, 2010)Scottish Reformed Conference (May 8, 2010)Banner of Truth Minister’s Conference (May 25-27, 2010)Ligonier...
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Genesis 4 - Matthew Henry
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” 2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And...
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Praise - Francis Schaeffer
One day all Christians will join in a doxology and sing God’s praises with perfection. But even today, individually and corporately, we are not only to sing the doxology, but to be the doxology. Francis Schaeffer Posted via email from Dei Gratia Rex | Comment »
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The Responsibility to Listen - Tim Challies
The Responsibility to Listen from Challies Dot Com Here is some food for thought as we prepare to hear the Word preached this Lord’s Day. These quotes are drawn from a book I just read (that will be released some time in the spring) titled Expository Listening. Do you know not only what a privilege there is in hearing the Word, but also what a responsibility? Here is what three Puritan...
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Nature
Nature: Revealing God Jesus taught men to see the operation of God in the regular and the normal - in the rising of the sun and the falling of the rain and the growth of the plant. - William Temple Posted via email from Dei Gratia Rex | Comment »
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The Westminster Standards' Challenge
For the 40 Day Challenge, (challenged by @joeholland of Mining Grace) I’ll be using this Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms originally prepared and published by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and currently adopted by the Presbyterian Church of America.\ If you tweet, use this hashtag #wcs40. Happy confessioning. WCS40.pdf (25 KB) View this on posterous Posted...
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Holy Plea - M'Cheyne
Make me as holy as a pardoned sinner on earth can be as I want to glorify Thee with all that is w/in me. - R. M. M’Cheyne Posted via email from Dei Gratia Rex | Comment »
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Holiness - JC Ryle
Holiness True holiness does not consist merely of believing and feeling, but of doing and bearing, and a practical exhibition of active and passive grace. Our tongues, our tempers, our natural passions and inclinations - our conduct as parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives, rulers , and subjects - our dress, our employment of time, our behavior in business, our demeanor...
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Return - Repentance - Revival - Reformation
Return - Repentance - Revival - Reformation All of these R’s require of me both a singular devotion to God through His word and the costly holiness that commands me to be different, not only from the world, but also from worldly people claiming to serve the cauase of Christ. Unless I am willing to stand alone with God, I risk betraying the Lord and sacrificing true revival and reformation...
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Be Resolved To Go For It
Those who do not want to embark on scientific investigation until they see the road by which we arrive at knowledge fully cleared will never start. Those who do not want to eat before they understand the entire process by which food arrives at the table will starve to death. And those who do not want to believe the Word of God before they see all problems resolved will die of spiritual starvation....
Play it Again sports
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If Edwards' Resolutions Were Prayed....
- Trevin Wax (adapted from the first 21 of Jonathan Edwards’ resolutions) Lord God Almighty, I understand that I am unable to do anything without your help, so I ask you to enable me by your grace to fulfill your will. Give me grace to do whatever brings most glory and honor to you, pleasure and profit to me, and life and love to others.Help me to number my days, spending my time wisely, living...
Brit Hume & Bill O'Reilly Regarding Tiger Woods
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A prayer of the saints - Samuel Heron
O good God, guide me by Thy holy hand, that I may keep myself within the lists of Christianity, being modest in apparel, moderate diet, chaste and temperate in speech, sober in fashion and my ordinary deportment, respective to my superiors, amiable to my equals, without pride and insolency towards these that are below me, courteous and affable and yet without vanity and popularity towards all. ...
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Revenge of the Cradle - Henry Smith
Parents: Revenge of the Cradle Well doth David call children “arrows”; for if they be well bred, they shoot at their parents’ enemies; and if they be evil bred, they shoot at their parents. Henry Smith Posted via email from Dei Gratia Rex | Comment »
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Stop Meddling
Charles Spurgeon: You are meddling with Christ’s business, and neglecting your own when you fret about your lot and circumstances.You have been trying “providing” work and forgetting that it is yours to obey. Be wise and attend to the obeying, and let Christ manage the providing. Come and survey your Father’s storehouse, and ask whether he will let you starve while he has laid up so great an...