For the Lords’ Day, August 26, 2017 Dear Saints, We are so thankful to have returned from our 5-week trip to the Land Down Under! We missed you terribly, and though we are still settling it is so goooooooooooood to be home! As you can imagine, I’ll be up late on sermons so I can’t […]
For Lord’s Day, May 14, 2015 Dear Saints, This week, in this blog, I saw this cartoon: This reminded me of this cartoon I saw on the wall while visiting Isaac’s doctor recently: These just seem to go together and invite serious meditation. I’ll let them speak for themselves, and close with this: See then […]
For Lord’s Day, April 2, 2017 Dear Saints, Here is our next installment of Jeremiah Borroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment to supplement our Wednesday Night study of Thomas Watson’s, The Art of Divine Contentment (both based on Philippians 4:11). Having described what Christian contentment is, Burroughs begins to help us look at it […]
For Lord’s Day, February 26, 2017 Dear Saints, Our next installment of Jeremiah Burroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment deals with being content through affliction (which we saw from our recent Wednesday night studies with Watson’s book on the topic is the main classroom of learning contentment). Burroughs writes: So far as your heart sinks […]
Dear Saints, While I was caring for Abraham while he was sick this Lord’s Day, I was afforded time to finish my reading of William S. Plumer’s, Jehovah-Jirah: A Treatise on Providence. The book has been a dear friend to me and covers a surprising range of things. Before I close the covers of this […]
For the Lord’s Day, February 19, 2017 Dear Saints, Here is our next supplemental installment to Watson’s, Art of Divine Contentment on Wednesday nights from Burroughs’ Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Chapter 1, “Christian Contentment Described.” His starting point for the book is the same as for Watson’s study on the same subject, Philippians 4:11, […]
For Lord’s Day, February 12, 2017 Dear Saints, Having begun our Wednesday Night study with Thomas Watson’s, The Art of Divine Contentment, let us begin our supplemental e-devotions with Jeremiah Burroughs’, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. Before we actually get to his own words, I’d like to take a look at what was said […]