Next Wednesday I leave with my family for the youth summer camp of Faith Bible Church in Canton, OH. I’ll have nine sessions to re-preach the series from this past Snow Retreat on The Religious Affections of Jonathan Edwards.
Then the week immediately following camp I have the opportunity to re-preach the Reformation messages […]
Happy birthday to the PyroManiacs blog. I’m looking forward to all their terrible twos flame-throwing.
UPDATE [June 5 | 2:28PM]: My (almost annoyingly) brilliant wife pointed out to me that PyroManiacs are actually in their “ornery ones” and not yet in their terrible twos. Stink.
Jonathan Edwards was born on October 5, 1703, in East Windsor, Connecticut. His parents were Timothy and Sarah Edwards, who already had four daughters, and were to have six more daughters after Jonathan. Since all 10 of his sisters grew close to six feet, people spoke of Timothy Edwards’ “sixty feet of daughters.” […]
It’s been too long since I’ve linked to my good friend Dave Cleland. He’s written some classic blogs about student ministry over the past few weeks and I wanted to point you to them if you’re not already a regular reader of Some Words from Dave.
Here’s a beauty on the vanity of youth (and I […]
Tuesday morning at 4:30AM Chuck Weinberg and I left Marysville on our way to Clovis, NM where we delivered a 5,000lb. granite monument for the Soldier of the Year.
We started in Marysville, dropped off a few memorials in Coeur d’Alene, ID, drove to Billings, then down to Denver, then to Las Vegas (New Mexico), […]
Jonathan Edwards was center stage in the Great Awakenings and his book The Religious Affections defined the nature of genuine religion while protecting the church against the dangers of counterfeit Christianity.
But why should we listen to Edwards? What qualifies him? And what, if anything, can we learn about him and from his […]
I recently converted to Google Calendar. I am also a (somewhat) recent convert to the ESV. And, I also like reading the Bible every day. So imagine my delight at this week’s announcement that the ESV One Year® Bible is available for Google Calendar! Can life get any better than this? […]
If you would have told me that Phil Johnson wrote a blog for homeschool moms about the connection between McDonalds and Goths I would have said “Piffle.” I would have been wrong.
Billing his post as A Few Ethics Short of a Happy Meal®, the original Pyromaniac has given a gift this holiday that […]
If you would have told me piffle was a word, I would have said, “Nonsense.” I would have been right.
piffle
definition
noun: something that does not have or make sense: “nonsense, foolish talk.” verb: 1. to chatter incessantly about unimportant matters; 2. to act in a trivial or futile manner. informal […]
The Religious Affections was Edwards’ attempt to clarify the characteristics of genuine Christianity from counterfeits. Clearing away confusion on this issue is crucial:
It is by a mixture of counterfeit religion with true, not discerned and distinguished, that the devil has had his greatest advantage against the cause and kingdom of Christ…. p.17
That is no […]
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