Crumbs from the Master's Table

Commenting on how the man Christ Jesus spent the entire night in prayer before calling his twelve disciples as apostles (Lk. 6:12-13), Calvi...

1 Thess. 1:1: Grace to you and peace. 1 Thess. 1:2–3: We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayer...

In my previous  post  on 1 Cor. 11:17-34, I said I’d be considering the context of this text next. Considering the context carefully appear...

Now before getting into some of the details of the text (1 Cor. 11:17-34), I want to do two things. First, I want to make clearer the diffi...

I'm going to begin a series of posts, probably fairly short, on a text that ought to be far more controversial than it tends to be in mo...

"Far off, I heard your voice saying I am the God who IS . I heard your voice, as we hear voices that speak to our hearts, and at once I...

St. Augustin's God-besotted God-centeredness in the Confessions  is well known. Reading through the  Confessions , I'm struck also b...

Andrew Murray: When our repeated prayers remain unanswered, it is easy for our lazy flesh—maintaining the appearance of pious submission—t...

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

I'm enjoying thoroughly sitting at Professor Dan Block's feet in an exegesis class on Deuteronomy at Wheaton College. And one of the...

"Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true sp...

Murray on Edwards' God-intoxicated ministry: For Edwards, the reality of communion with God belongs to the very nature of redemptive C...

In the fifth chapter of Owen's work On the Mortification of Sin , he discusses what does not pass for truly killing sin. He refers to fi...

"Edwards' whole ministry, as that of the Puritans, was based upon the conviction that the usefulness of a preacher's work is in...

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It's that time when people are gearing up for the new year ahead with resolutions. In my judgment, this gearing up can be good, or it ca...

Commenting on Gen. 4:26, Edwards speaks to what begins to happen when God's Spirit moves among men: We see by experience that a remark...

From Edwards' Signs of Godliness notebook: The fruits of grace in the life must needs be the proper evidences of it. What can be the p...

Packer on inauthentic interpretation versus the real deal: Historical exegesis is only the preliminary part of interpretation; application...

With the polarization that's well underway in our country (which is not a good thing, of course, for a house divided against itself cann...