Crumbs from the Master's Table

"Here indeed is pure and real religion: faith so joined with an earnest fear of God that this fear also embraces willing reverence, and...

In these uncongenial days in which we find ourselves, "religion" is routinely tarred and feathered and set on fire. I understand w...

"Backbite (vt): To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you" (Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary , 12...

Here's my present attempt at a definition that embraces the whole enterprise of theologizing. It aims at making clear that doing...

A covenant is a "relationship involving an oath-bound commitment" (Gentry and Wellum,  Kingdom through Covenant , 132).

"A covenant, in its normal sense, is an elected, as opposed to natural, relationship of obligation under oath" (Hugenberger, Marri...

"A childlike fear differs from a slavish fear in this, that a slavish fear has no love in it." —Jonathan Edwards,  Ethical Writi...

"True thankfulness is no other than the exercise of love to God on occasion of his goodness to us." —Jonathan Edwards,  Ethical ...

In " Grace Tends to Holy Practice ," preached in 1738, Edwards says this of true humility's tendency: True Christian humili...

Edwards, from " Charity Contrary to an Angry Spirit ," preached in 1738: Persons sin in their anger with respect to the occasion ...

Here's a definition of anger, slightly modified from Jonathan Edwards: "An intense, earnest, and passionate opposition of one...

"There are [those] who in their love to their own happiness place their happiness in good things which are confined and limited to them...

In the sixth sermon of his famous sermon series on 1 Corinthians 13— Charity and Its Fruits —Jonathan Edwards preached on verses 4–5 and hum...

Edwards: Envy may be defined, a spirit of opposition to others' comparative happiness, or to the happiness of others considered as com...

"To read is to fraternize with the great minds of the past" (Kevin Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in This Text ? 46).

In The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross , Leon Morris argues cogently concerning the redemption-language background for the usage in the Ne...

"Love of benevolence is that disposition which a man has who desires or delights in the good of another. And this is the main thing in ...

"To be kind is to have a disposition freely to do good. Whatever good is done, it is no proper kindness in the doer of it unless it be ...

Amid much confusion in the modern world about what it means to be a Christian (yes even, lamentably, in "Christian" churches), I o...

"In the ancient world, philosophy means something like what we mean by 'worldview.'" —D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo, A...