Journey of Cross and Quill
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RSS 2.0How to Answer the Fool: A Presuppositional Defense of the Faith Review and Giveaway
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7 In How to Answer the Fool: A Presuppositional Defense of the Faith, Sye Ten Bruggencate of Proof that God Exists, exerts that, “All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ. You cannot know anything at all unless you start with …
May 17, 2013 Friday at 12:00 pm
Praise You in This Storm: Part Two
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 When I wrote Praise You in This Storm not even a week ago I had no idea that God would yet again test me. My youngest son, Josiah, will be 15-months-old later this week. …
May 14, 2013 Tuesday at 10:23 am
The Education of Our Children
There is a phrase in Francis Schaeffer’s book, The Great Evangelical Disaster, that I believe succinctly addresses the heart of the matter of which I am about to write: “Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation: loving confrontation, but confrontation nonetheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of truth involved, there is something wrong.”[1] …
May 12, 2013 Sunday at 10:25 pm
Praise You in This Storm
On my way home from my oldest son’s yearly visit with his neurosurgeon, I was listening to K-Love and the song, Jesus Bring the Rain by Mercy Me, came on. I can count a million times People asking me how I Can praise You with all that I’ve gone through The question just amazes me Can circumstances possibly Change who …
May 10, 2013 Friday at 3:08 am
The Standard
Greg L. Bahnsen, in his book, By This Standard, writes “Will your life be founded upon the sure rock of God’s word or the ruinous sands of independent human opinion? Will your ethical decisions be crooked and inaccurate, following foolish and lawless standards, or will you wisely employ the yardstick of God’s revealed word?” [1] This is the antithesis governing …
May 8, 2013 Wednesday at 4:29 am
Quotable: J. R. Miller (1840 – 1912)
We have only successfully acquired the art of living a Christian life—when we have learned to apply the principles of true religion, and enjoy its help and comfort in our daily life. It is easy to join in devotional exercises, to quote Bible promises, to extol the beauty of the Scriptures; but there are many who do these things—whose …
April 29, 2013 Monday at 4:20 pm
Why We Homeschool: The Heart of the Matter
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you …
April 15, 2013 Monday at 1:59 am
Reflection: Confessions in Parenting
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, …
April 9, 2013 Tuesday at 10:57 pm
The 2012 Presidential Election and the Sovereignty of God
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they …
October 25, 2012 Thursday at 2:27 am
Quotable: A.W. Pink (1886-1952)
The Lord God omnipotent reigneth. His government is exercised over inanimate matter, over the brute beasts, over the children of men, over angels good and evil, and over Satan Himself. NO revolving of a world, no shining of a star, no storm, no movement of a creature, no actions of men, no errands of angels, no deeds of the Devil—nothing …
October 19, 2012 Friday at 4:46 pm
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