D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Revival
I have been reading the second volume of Iain Murray’s comprehensive biography on D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, having read the first volume last year. It is a bit tedious at times, but only because Murray made the conscious choice to include more, rather than less,...Augustine on Coercing People into the Kingdom
Does anyone doubt that it is preferable for people to be drawn to worship God by teaching rather than forced by fear of punishment or by pain? But because the one type of people are better, it does not mean that the others, who are not of that type, ought to be...Augustine on Sparing the Wicked
Augustine took the view that the Church should advocate in the secular realm on behalf of the wicked, that governments might not punish the wicked for what they deserve. This inspired a letter from someone claiming that to do so would, in effect, give approval to the...I believe in God the Creator…
For a class, I am reading Karl Barth’s Dogmatics in Outline, which comprises lectures he gave on the Apostle’s Creed. Today, we discussed Barth’s chapter on “God the Creator,” and my professor drew our attention to this paragraph: We are...Fear of the Lord and Being Scared
I’ve often struggled to describe the meaning of the phrase “fear of the Lord,” and I usually end up describing something that skirts around the word “fear.” To an extent, this is good–God does not want us to be terrified of him....Download My Free eBook
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