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Matthew 7:1-2

7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. (ESV)

Thus saith the Geneva Reformers:

We ought to find fault one with another, but we must beware we do it not without cause, or to [...]

Some good stuff in the blogosphere lately…

Dan Phillips answers, What if someone claims an angelic visitation [today]?
David Kotter at CBMW responds to Luke Timothy Johnson on homosexuality and the church
Paul Lamey tackles the tough subject of applying Old Testament law (and principles) today
John Piper posts an amazing poem from his son, Karsten (do yourself a [...]

I finished up Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism last night. (Review coming soon… Probably. ;-)) I’m following it up with Thomas Boston’s The Art of Manfishing, a short book from a Scottish Puritan on evangelism, from around 1700. Here’s a crumb (emphasis added):
O my soul, then see that gifts will not do the business. [...]

Our Puritan Book Club is currently working through Thomas Watson’s The Godly Man’s Picture. And so, I present to you some choice quotes from my reading thus far… (Boldface is mine in the quotes below.)
The soul being so precious, and salvation so glorious, it is the highest point of prudence to make preparations for another [...]

Faith and fear go hand in hand. Faith keeps the heart cheerful, fear keeps the heart serious. Faith keeps the heart from sinking in despair, fear keeps it from floating in presumption.
Thomas Watson, All Things For Good, 1663

For some reason, an old post from Paul Lamey at Expository Thoughts showed up in my RSS reader this morning. No worry, it’s a good one:
While preparing a sermon on Jude 5 i came across a great quote by Pastor Matthew Henry. This comment reflects Jude’s thought in a fresh way (Jude 1:5 “Now I [...]

No doubt you’ve all seen about the massive bridge collapse in Minneapolis (check your favorite news site for details). John Piper and Albert Mohler have both weighed in on the tragedy, with some very poignant pastoral perspectives.
First, Piper, in Putting My Daughter to Bed Two Hours After the Bridge Collapsed, observes:
The meaning of the collapse [...]

A Christian complains he cannot pray. ‘Oh, I am troubled with so many distracting thoughts, and never more than now!’ But has he put into your heart a desire to pray? Then he will hear the desires of his own Spirit in you… God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry [...]

Men must not be too curious in prying into the weaknesses of others. We should labour rather to see what they have that is for eternity, to incline our heart to love them, than into that weakness which the Spirit of God will in time consume, to estrange us…
Where most holiness is, there is most [...]

The Almost Christian Discovered
by Matthew Mead.
Soli Deo Gloria Books, 1997. 166 pages.
ISBN 1877611727
If you call yourself a Christian, how do you know for sure whether you really are? How do you know whether you really are saved? That is the question confronted by Matthew Mead in The Almost Christian Discovered. Scripture commands us [...]