Hope in God Alone, Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: An Appeal to Be Heard

In this week’s lessons we learn how to approach God in prayer, how to address evil, and the need for thanksgiving.

Scripture: Psalm 28:1-9

At the end of the last study I wrote about waiting for the Lord, which is where Psalm 27 ends and what we must learn to do better, since God does not usually respond to prayer according to our timetable. We do not expect to have to wait for God forever, of course. But what should we do while we are waiting? The answer is that we need to keep praying, to persevere in prayer. Significantly, this is the point to which Psalm 28 takes us. It is about importunity.

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A Better Way

Posted on Sunday, September 3, 2017 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

We can do better when it comes to talking about race.

 

I was happy to pass along some links to African American voices we ought to be hearing. But because they will sometimes ask inconvenient questions or come to conclusions not sanctioned by the elites they are slandered and ignored.

 

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You Know You're Preaching When...

by Stephen Thomas Burch • September 01, 2017

Preaching is a combination of certain elements. Preaching contains teaching or truth, but it is more than information dissemination. Preaching is a combination of spirit and truth, light and heat. Preaching informs the mind and stirs the heart. So, how do you know when you’re preaching?

Preaching is an important gift from God. How important is preaching? Jesus is a preacher.1 The truth that Jesus is a preacher should point you to the weight of preaching. You can see the value Jesus placed on preaching when in His earthly ministry He said to His disciples, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out” (Mk. 1:38). Christ is the example for preachers in all things. Christ went out to preach. Have you come into the pulpit to preach like Christ?

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In which I chat to Tony Payne and talk about Robert Burns

Posted on Friday, September 1, 2017 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

I recently had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Tony Payne, of Moore College, Sydney, in which we talked about the piety of the Reformation and Reformers.  You can find it here.  We also chatted briefly about the greatest literary description of the impact of Protestant piety upon the households of ordinary, rural people: Robert Burns's great poem,

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My Light and My Salvation, Part 5

By James Boice

Theme: The Soul’s Prescription

In this week’s lessons we are reminded of the need to confidently wait upon the Lord to answer our prayers.

Scripture: Psalm 27:1-14

2. We seek to be heard. Sometimes children talk to us only because they want to be listened to, not really caring what we say in response, and unfortunately many parents are too busy to listen. Is God ever too busy to listen when we speak to him? Never! Why don't we do it more often then? The reason is that we are too busy, not God. Or perhaps the reason is our sin or unbelief. Perhaps we do not really believe that God is a true listening parent, a parent who says: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matt. 7:7).

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My Light and My Salvation, Part 4

By James Boice

Theme: The Soul’s Prayer

In this week’s lessons we are reminded of the need to confidently wait upon the Lord to answer our prayers.

Scripture: Psalm 27:1-14

The latter half of Psalm 27 begins with verse 7, as I pointed out earlier, and it is here that we find the abrupt change of language, structure and tone I also mentioned. The verbs change from the first or third person to the second. The earlier affirmations become prayers. The mood changes from confidence to earnest entreaty.

The latter half of Psalm 27 begins with verse 7, as I pointed out earlier, and it is here that we find the abrupt change of language, structure and tone I also mentioned. The verbs change from the first or third person to the second. The earlier affirmations become prayers. The mood changes from confidence to earnest entreaty.

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My Light and My Salvation, Part 3

By James Boice

Theme: The Soul’s Desire

In this week’s lessons we are reminded of the need to confidently wait upon the Lord to answer our prayers.

Scripture: Psalm 27:1-14

The second stanza of the psalm (vv. 4-6) expresses David's one great desire, which is to "dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of his life" (v. 4). This sounds a great deal like Psalm 23, which ends with David dwelling "in the house of the LORD forever." But there it has to do with heaven, while here, in Psalm 27, the reference is to the earthly tabernacle. Indeed, David seems to be ransacking the Hebrew language for nouns to describe it: "the house of the LORD" (v.4), "his temple" (v. 4), "his dwelling" (v. 5), "his tabernacle” (vv. 5, 6).

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A Few Questions About the New CBMW Statement

Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

And looking back after one year of pleading for change.

I see that CBMW has a new document named the Nashville Statement, calling the church to faithful witness to God’s purposes for human sexuality. I share their concerns for speaking out against the damage and pain caused by the sexual revolution. I share their zeal for promoting holiness and to make known the good news of redemption in Christ available to all. But as I read the 14 articles, I had some serious questions still unanswered.

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My Light and My Salvation, Part 2

By James Boice

Theme: Three Things God Has Been

In this week’s lessons we are reminded of the need to confidently wait upon the Lord to answer our prayers.

Scripture: Psalm 27:1-14

In addition to Psalm 27:1, we have to go to the New Testament to find a good parallel between God and light. When we do we find that there "light” is a name for Jesus Christ: "The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. . . . The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world" (John 1:5, 9). John, who makes this identification, also says, "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

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A Little Ol' Fashioned Diversity

Posted on Monday, August 28, 2017 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

Because there is more than one voice...

 

It seems that in the Reformed(ish) world there is only one approved narrative regarding race and racial reconciliation. Indeed, any voice which dissents even mildly from the approved message is ignored and/or vilified by the great and the good.
 

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