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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 [...]

I turned 35 yesterday. What does this mean?
According to the very first line of Dante’s Inferno, it means that I am “Midway in the journey of our life,” a reference to Psalm 90:10.
According to the U. S. Constitution, it means I am now eligible to become President of the United States.
But in our household, it [...]

To make a man altogether a Christian, there must be light in the head and heat in the heart, knowledge in the understanding and zeal in the affections. Some have zeal and no knowledge - that is blind devotion. Some have knowledge and no zeal - that is fruitless speculation. But where knowledge is joined [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post on The Almost Christian Discovered, Shannon and I are reading through the book together. The other night, after Atticus was in bed and Mc was upstairs reading, we went out on the patio and finished the last of the introductory sections.
Yes, the book has multiple introductions:

Foreword, by John MacArthur
To [...]

Summer is upon us, and that means that activities shift while the kids are out of school for several months… One such shift is that our church does not hold home Bible Study groups for the summer, so to fill the gap, a friend and I have started a Puritans Book Club.
The first selection is [...]

I am reading through John Owen’s Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, and I ran across what I thought was an odd usage of the word superstition. I looked it up in the 1828 edition of Webster’s dictionary, and I was very fascinated by the primary definition listed there:
SUPERSTI’TION, n. [L. superstitio, supersto; super [...]

I’ve not been very good about posting lately to my blog, and I’ve been even more lax about having a Random Thoughts posting. So, without further ado…
Election Debate (No, Not for November…)
At this year’s Pastor’s Conference for the Southern Baptist Conference, there was a (friendly) debate on election between Albert Mohler and Paige Patterson. The [...]

There is a tendency in the church today to question everything, even the very foundations of our faith - the deity and lordship of Christ, the sovereignty of God, the inerrance of the scriptures.
But these things are indeed nothing new under the sun. Phil Johnson at Pyromaniacs regularly posts selections from Charles Spurgeon about how [...]