Crumbs from the Master's Table

"All God's commandments, one of which is, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery,' and all those precepts which are not commandmen...

"Zeal is a mixed affection, a compound of love and anger; it carries forth our love to God, and our anger against sin in an intense deg...

Our baby boy is going to be baptized next weekend at College Church in Wheaton. We're looking forward to his being baptized into Christ ...

Edwards: The emanation or communication of the divine fullness, consisting in the knowledge of God, love to God, and joy in God, has relat...

Calvin: The final goal of the blessed life, moreover, rests in the knowledge of God. Lest anyone, then, be excluded from access to happine...

Chesterton: Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and ...

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

"Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's Majest...

In " Charity Contrary to an Angry Spirit ," preached in 1738, Edwards speaks of what God-centered anger looks like: If men's...

"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 ...

Why do I languish thus, drooping and dull,                     As if I were all earth? O give me quickness, that I may with mirth        ...

"In the new life which follows repentance the absolute supremacy of God is the controlling principle. He who repents turns away from th...

"The kingdom is a conception which must of necessity remain unintelligible and unacceptable to every view of the world and of religion ...

Edwards: Now God's internal glory, is either in his understanding or will. The glory or fullness of his understanding is his knowle...

Jonathan Edwards: All that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works, is included in that one phrase, t he ...

What follows comes from a paper I produced for Professor G. K. Beale in 2010 for his New Testament Theology class (one of the best classes ...

Edwards speaking of the supreme regard due God as an exceedingly fitting thing: To determine, then, what proportion of regard is to be all...

Toward the end of his life, Jonathan Edwards wrote one of his most important works— The End for Which God Created the World . The bare bon...

"Sin is trying to quench our unquenchable soul-thirst anywhere but in God. Or, more subtly, sin is pursuing satisfaction in the right ...

Defining in what the image of God consists has proven more challenging than might be expected.  I think this definition given by John Piper...