A Puritan Prayer

O Lord,Help me never to expect any happiness from the world, but only in thee.Let me not think that I shall be more happy by living to myself, for I can only be happy if employed for thee,and if I desire to live in this world only do and suffer what dost allot me.Teach me [...]

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Satan’s Six Strategic Assaults on the Christian Faith

Some evangelical leaders have been joyfully announcing there is a great spiritual revival taking place in our country. However, a closer and more discern¬ing look reveals there is a countless mfiltra¬tion of deceivers masquerading as messen¬gers of Christ who are counterfeiting the Christian faith. “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel [...]

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Thomas Watson said…….

“It will be a great comfort in a dying hour, to think we have glorified God in our lives. It was Christ’s comfort before his death: ‘I have glorified thee on the earth’ (John 17:4). At the hour of death, all your earthly comforts will vanish: if you think how rich you have been, what [...]

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An Interview with Paul Washer

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White Horse Inn- The State of Today’s Church

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New Song……Tenth Avenue North- My Love Is Over

I discovered this band by sheer chance (or was it chance??!) one day when I was browsing the net. I proceeded to purchase their album and I have to say I’m always listening to it now! When I first listened  to this song i just connected with it straight away. I [...]

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Talking ’bout the Revvvvolution……..

“From the moment you pull into the parking lot, it is our desire for you to see friendly faces and well-marked signs pointing you in the right direction.  Whether you need childcare or a hot cup of coffee, someone will be close by to get you where you are heading.  Don’t worry about not knowing [...]

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The Generation that the Church is in danger of failing………..

When Jesus asks Peter to “feed my lambs” after he’s been resurrected (John 21:15), he’s not talking about engaging them in a Bible study. Very few people were ever able to read back then, and there were very few copies of Scripture.
When Jesus told Peter (who is a type of medieval Everyman – a [...]

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Mark Driscoll- Emergent Church critque!! Great!!

Pastor Mark Driscoll, of Mars Hill Church Seattle, addressed the students/pastors at the Convergent Conference of the Southeastern Baptist Convention in September 2007, regarding the Emergent church. For quite some time now I have been wary of the Emergent church for more reasons than one. I have friends who would read and listen to a [...]

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My thought for today……..

“A prositute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick,unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter. Through sobs and tears, she told me she had been renting out her daughter – two years old!-to men interested in kinky sex. She made more renting out her daughter for an hour than she could earn her [...]

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Thomas a Kempis said……

“What can the world offer you without Jesus? To be without Jesus is hell most grievous , to be with Jesus is to know the sweetness of heaven. If Jesus is with you , no enemy can harm you. Whoever finds Jesus , finds a rich treasure , and a good above every good. He [...]

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Jerry Bridges on Holiness

“Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own “Victory” over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieves the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented , not [...]

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Christless Christianity

Michael Horton has influenced my life for the good in so many ways that if I could meet him in the flesh I would most probably just want to shake the man’s hand off of him or embrace him with a brotherly hug (for all you wise-guys out there you can save the gay jokes [...]

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“Red-Letter Christians”: A Bad Idea with a Bad Name, Alas

Being a “red-letter Christian” sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Tony Campolo, professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University, activist, pundit, and provocateur, tells us that he wants to obey the very words of Jesus, those words that in previous generations of Bible publishing were printed in red.

His comrade Jim Wallis of the Sojourners [...]

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The Marks of Manhood- Dr. Albert Mohler

When does a boy become a man? The answer to this must go far beyond biology and chronological age. As defined in the Bible, manhood is a functional reality, demonstrated in a man’s fulfillment of responsibility and leadership. With this in mind, let me suggest thirteen marks of biblical manhood. The achievement of these vital [...]

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Our Culture; What’s Left Of It- Theodore Dalrymple

I have recently developed an interest in gaining an understanding of why society is the way it is today. I’ve always found history fascinating, and whilst my bone-idleness during school was not an accurate reflection of this (a C in History and an E in Ancient History are not exactly grades that give an indication [...]

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J.C. Ryle said……

 “The consequences of this widespread dislike to dogma are very serious in the present day. Whether we like to allow it or not, it is an epidemic which is just now doing great harm, especially among young people. It creates, fosters, and keeps up an immense amount of instability in religion. It produces what I [...]

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T.D. Jakes

“Some people may wonder, “Why do you guys worry so much about what bookstores are selling? So they sell TD Jakes’ books. What’s wrong with that? A lot of people like TD Jakes!” So, what IS wrong with TD Jakes? (Actually, the easier question to answer is “What ISN’T wrong with him?)
Here are a few [...]

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The Holiness of God

              
The Holiness of God is something the 21st Century world just doesn’t get. In fact, I think using the phrase ‘the 21st Century’ is too broad a generalisation. I would change that to 21st Century contemporary western Christianity. Many Christians in China or Africa for instance totally get it. Their zeal for the Lord [...]

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A Christian view on singleness

   Had I any vague premonition of my present plight when I was six, I would have demanded that Stephen Herbison (incontestably the catch of the second grade) put his marriage proposal into writing and have it notarized. I do want this piece to be practical, so to all you first-graders: carpe diem.
     Over the past [...]

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Monthly Focus- Doctrine of Election

Two weeks ago I returned to my old University in England to visit some of my friends who are still in attendance and to speak at the Christian Union I attended whilst I was there. It was great to receive this invite, and a real privilege to be able to spend a lot of time [...]

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Steve Camp’s Blog- Check it out

The Below articles are taken from Steve Camps’ blog Camp On This and I just HAD to put all three on. Some wonder why I blog, and such articles as those below answer that question. I don’t blog to build a reputation or seek the applause of men. Rather I blog because it keeps me sharp. It [...]

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J.C. Ryle said it well……..

     “It may be that a certain profession of religion has become so fashionable and comparatively easy in the present age that the streams which were once narrow and deep have become wide and shallow, and what we have gained in outward show we have lost in quality. It may be that the vast increase [...]

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Paul Washer said……..

 
“In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one’s hand, walk an aisle, or pray a “sinner’s prayer.” As a result, the majority of Americans (read Westerners) believe that they’ve been “born again” (i.e., regenerated) even though their thoughts, words, and deeds [...]

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Here comes Muslim Europe

Further to my post yesterday by Voddie Baucham in relation to Islam, I thought this article was quite interesting and worth sharing. Before I begin though let’s establish that this is not “hate” blogging. In no way, shape or form should hate blogging be tolerated. However, a presentation of the geographical and demographical landscape of Europe is somewhat [...]

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A.W. Tozer- The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing

 ”The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things……….The world said, ‘Abraham is rich,’ but the aged patriarch only smiled. He could not explain it, but he knew that he owned nothing, that his real treasures were inward and eternal. There can be no [...]

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Charles Spurgeon- Repentance Unto Life

By “Repentance unto life,” I think we are to understand that repentance which is accompanied by spiritual life in the soul, and ensures eternal life to every one who possesses it. “Repentance unto life,” I say, brings with it spiritual life, or rather, is the first consequent thereof. There are repentances which are not signs of life, [...]

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Book Review- Who are You to Judge? Erwin Lutzer

I had heard the name here and there but never actually read anything by him or listened to anything preached by him. But now, after reading “Who Are You to Judge?” I can safely say that Erwin Lutzer will be someone whose teaching I will return to in the future. Lutzer is the Pastor of [...]

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Mormons are NOT Christians and Mormonism IS a CULT

Has anyone noticed the increased Mormon propaganda and advertising on the internet these days? The Mormon church is advertising like wildfire on prominent websites such as Hotmail and Thesauras Online. What are they advertising? Happiness. How to find happiness. Seems like they have gotten on board with the church marketers just like the seeker-sensitive movement [...]

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The Islamisation of Europe

I recently received a copy of the Barnabus Fund magazine which keeps me up-to-date with the persecuted church. Within this edition there was an article on the Islamisation of Europe. I plan to add to this post in due course with more on what the article had to say, but for the meantime I thought [...]

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