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Posted on Monday, February 13, 2017 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

God Has Spoken

There is still time to register for the Blue Ridge Bible Conference on March 31-April 1, 2017.

 

It promises to be a wonderful time.

 

The theme is God Has Spoken and our speakers are Greg Beale, Johnathan Master, Carl Trueman, and Aimee Byrd.

 

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An Evening Psalm, Part 1

By James Boice
Theme: From Distress to Confidence
 
In this week’s studies we see how by God’s grace David was able to rise above his enemies, trusting the Lord to hear his prayer and be merciful to him.
 
Scripture: Psalm 4:1-8
 
It is tempting to seek a historical setting for Psalm 4, just as for Psalm 3, but there is little justification for it. The title says merely: "For the director of music. With stringed instruments.

Contrary to what we find in Psalm 3, in this psalm the problem is one of malicious slander and lies. It is the psalmist's reputation rather than his person that is being attacked, and what he needs is a sense of the presence and approval of God rather than physical deliverance.

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New Day Dawning: A Morning Psalm, Day 5

By James Boice
Theme: A Confident Cry for Deliverance
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
The last section of the psalm is a confident cry for God's deliverance, because the psalmist knows that God has heard him and will provide deliverance. 
 
David's words are actually a war cry, as I suggested earlier.

The last section of the psalm is a confident cry for God's deliverance, because the psalmist knows that God has heard him and will provide deliverance. 

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New Day Dawning: A Morning Psalm, Day 4

By James Boice
Theme: “Though This World with Devils Filled”
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
To many people the most appealing part of this psalm is the third stanza, the part in which David tells how he was able to lie down and sleep even in the midst of the sudden great danger occasioned by Absalom's rebellion (vv. 5-6).

To many people the most appealing part of this psalm is the third stanza, the part in which David tells how he was able to lie down and sleep even in the midst of the sudden great danger occasioned by Absalom's rebellion (vv. 5-6). It is a beautiful picture of one so trusting in God that he is able to sleep soundly even while the treacherous seek his life.

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New Day Dawning: A Morning Psalm, Day 3

By James Boice
Theme: The Psalmist’s Confidence in God
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8 
 
Much happens in this psalm in the space between the first two stanzas, marked out by selah. The first stanza is an expression of the crisis that has come into the psalmist's life because of the enemies who have risen up against him.

Much happens in this psalm in the space between the first two stanzas, marked out by selah. The first stanza is an expression of the crisis that has come into the psalmist's life because of the enemies who have risen up against him. The second stanza is a quiet expression of his confidence in God. What has produced this abrupt but obvious change? The answer is that he has turned his attention from his enemies to God.

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What John Calvin Taught Me About Parenthood

by Christina Fox • February 07, 2017

There is much to learn from Calvin about justification, soteriology, and God’s sovereignty, but there are also a few lessons we can learn from him about our responsibilities as parents.

Have you ever played a word association game? Let’s do one now. What’s the first thought that comes to mind when you think of John Calvin? Perhaps you thought of the words predestination, reformation, and theology. I doubt you thought of parenthood.

Calvin on Psalm 78

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New Day Dawning: A Morning Psalm, Day 2

By James Boice
Theme: A World of Foes
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
A second reason for taking the title of the psalm literally is that the images of the psalm are military, which fits the situation in 2 Samuel well.4 Both the examples of military language as well as the general correspondence between the psalm and the condition of David described in 2 Samuel
So the psalm is not speaking of some vague problem or disappointment but rather of a specific danger David faced that specific morning. I am sure that many people can identify with that. Perhaps you are one. You may not be facing an imminent military battle when you wake up most mornings, but you are facing a battle.

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Trueman on the Reformation

Posted on Monday, February 6, 2017 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

Well worth the time...

 

When you get a chance watch or listen to the lectures from Carl Trueman delivered at The Master's Seminary during this year's January term. You can access the Youtube channel HERE.

 

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New Day Dawning: A Morning Psalm, Day 1

By James Boice
Theme: What a Morning!
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
After Psalms 1 and 2, which are foundational psalms—the first stressing the importance of the law of God in one’s life, and the second the ultimate triumph of the Messiah—there are a number of psalms dealing with various circumstances that come into the godly man's life in which he

After Psalms 1 and 2, which are foundational psalms—the first stressing the importance of the law of God in one’s life, and the second the ultimate triumph of the Messiah—there are a number of psalms dealing with various circumstances that come into the godly man's life in which he must trust God. Psalm 3, which heads the list, describes a person who is in danger as a new day dawns.

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How John Owen Proposed to His Wife

Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2017 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

A little weekend fun

A Treatise Concerning the Necessity of Marriage*
 
The purpose of the discourse laid out – The major points therein established – The sundry benefits of marriage discussed – The vices thereby abstained from much derided
 
Bearing in mind that the covenant of marriage is not to be entered into, as the Scriptures tell us, unadvisedly or lightly, but rather with all reverence, according to the sundry commandments given for the mutual benefit of all persons, yet which can bind no man but that he take upon him

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