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This Lord’s Day, Go Hear Christ Preach

I highly recommend Iain Murray's lecture "Conditions for Powerful Preaching," the first installment in his series "Preaching in History," which you can download and listen to for free from Sermon Audio. Right after the 36:20 mark, Iain Murray says: Jeremiah Burroughs,...

John Owen: the Holy Spirit Speaks By the Word

A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life in a Year: [John] Owen explains that the [Holy] Spirit does not speak to believers in an outward or inward vocal testimony. In other words, the Spirit does not speak to believers "of the Word, but by the Word." When the Spirit and...

Lloyd-Jones: How Big is the Problem of Man?

From the D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermon on James 4:1, "From Whence Come Wars" right after the 32:00 mark: The problem is man himself--why he lives as he does; why he is irrational; why he is a fool; why he has wars and rumors of wars. Simple problem? It's the...

The Jealous Love of the Holy Spirit in James 4

The Jealous Love of God in the Old Testament From beginning to end, the Old Testament proclaims the great love of God for his people. Anyone who caricatures the God of the Old Testament as a God of wrath simply has not read the Old Testament carefully enough. But at...

Why the Written Word is Better than Direct Revelation

A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life in a Year: Revelations from God, such as that given to Abraham, commanding him to sacrifice his only son, had a "divine power and efficacy" that infalliby assured Abraham that the words came from God. Nevertheless, God required...

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