Guitar

I don’t believe I’ve ever met anyone who doesn’t appreciate the sound of good guitar playing. In fact, mediocre guitar playing (My style) is often worth listening to. Guitars are great instruments for worship songs and I don’t know why I haven’t featured a Guitar Category before now since it’s something that I enjoy and I know others enjoy as well.

Friday Fun

Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don’t “HAVE” them, you “PITCH” them.
Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up “a mess.”
Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of “yonder.”
Only a [...]

Sunday's Sermon

By the term federal, we mean that there was an official oneness existing between the Mediator and those for whom He mediated or, in simpler language, that there is a legal union between Christ and His people. “When, in he Old Testament, the elect are spoken of as the party with whom God makes a [...]

Church

Mark Dever has posted an excellent article concerning things that he can and cannot live with as a pastor.
Here is a portion of his list and some thoughts on why he writes such an article:
…organs, female elders, universalism, altar calls, humor, multi-site campuses, drums, the KJV, stained glass, racism, infant baptism, no formal membership, sermons [...]

Theology

An Exposition of the Assembly’s
Shorter Catechism
by John Flavel
Q: What is sanctification?
A: Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace,1 whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God,2 and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.3

2 Thessalonians 2:13. God hath from the beginning chosen [...]

Bible Study

The Word and God

John 1:1-2
The opening words, “In the beginning”, are probably a conscious reminiscence of the first words of the Bible. The first book of the Hebrew Bible was named “In the beginning” (from its opening words) so the expression would be widely known. John is writing about a new beginning, a new creation [...]

Quotes

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.

Classics

June 18th marks the date that we will begin reading/posting on The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs. This is a group endeavor sponsored by Challies.
I will post my weekly chapter reviews here. Everyone is welcome to read along and post their comments.