Site Updates
I’ve made some changes to the site recently, and tonight I did a bunch. So here we are, in no particular order… No more Google Reader links or Del.icio.us links – I got bored with having these in the sidebar. I fixed the search results page on the new theme, so when you search, you no longer just see title, you actually see the text that your search hit on. Here’s an example. I updated some of the software that runs the site (WordPress plugins for you techie types) so that it runs faster. (Again, for techie types – changed some of the plugins that built dynamic scripts, CSS, etc. based on configured options, to static pages. I don’t change the configuration enough to pay the performance hit.) I now have a “Now...
Gurnall on Secret Sins
More from The Christian in Complete Armour… Here, William Gurnall describes how Satan argues with us on behalf of our secret sins, hoping that we will cling to them… Thou mayest keep me and thy credit also; I will not be seen abroad in thy company to shame thee among thy neighbours; shut me up in the most retired room thou hast in thy heart, from the hearing of others, if thou wilt only let me now and then have the wanton embraces of thy thoughts and affections in secret… Here the valiant swordsmen of the world have showed themselves mere cowards, who have come out of the field with victorious banners, and then lived, yea, died slaves to a base lust at...
Gurnall on Trusting God
In The Christian in Complete Armour, William Gurnall talks about trusting God not only when you think he is absent (withdrawing), but even when he seems to be against you, as in the case of Job or the Canaanite woman: The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God, Isa. 50:10. Let him that walks in darkness, and sees no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. This requires a holy boldness of faith indeed, to venture into God’s presence, as Esther into Ahasuerus’, when no smile is to be seen on his face, no golden sceptre of the promise perceived by the soul, as held forth to embolden it to come near, then to press in with this noble resolution, “If I perish, I perish,” Est. 4:16. Nay, more, to trust not only in a...
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