Crumbs from the Master's Table

"Oh to have done with all glory but glorying in the cross! . . . I am so sure about the whole matter, that if I were left alone in the ...

Augustin on grace: Saint Paul teaches that he who sees ought not to boast as though what he sees, and even the power by which he sees, ha...

Some have offered critique of how stylized or superstitious or otherwise faulty is the "conversion" of Augustin (e.g., Adolf von H...

My stock lies dead, and no increase Doth my dull husbandry improve: O let thy graces without cease                                       ...

From Calvin's will, made on his deathbead: I give thanks to God who had mercy on me. . . . He delivered me out of the deep darkness of...

From his  Signs of Godliness notebook, Edwards commenting on Gen. 22:12: God would teach us this by it: that that is a sign of the truth o...

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...

Jonathan Edwards gives the most profound explanation I've ever read or heard for the interplay between divine sovereignty and human will...

Commenting on the language of Rom. 5:17, 20, John Owen speaks of the natural tendency of the language, which natural tendency supports under...

A snapshot of D. M. Lloyd-Jones as pictured by J. I. Packer: He was a saint, a holy man of God: a naturally proud person whom God made humb...

Augustin on God's demands in the face of human inability: The Pelagians think that they know something great when they assert that ...

No doubt many are aware that Luther's addition of the word "alone" in his translation of Rom. 3:28 caused quite a row. And to ...

From J. I. Packer's classic Knowing God (pp. 63-64): We talk glibly of the "Christmas spirit," rarely meaning more by this tha...

Yesterday's Lord's Day  sermon  on Eph. 2:1-10, preached by NCC pastor Andrew Fulton, provided liberating food for the dull duty-bou...

A while back I made a beginning at poking away at John Owen's  Pneumatologia . On account of pressing responsibilities and unforeseen ci...

I think I've put my finger upon something about middle class and upper middle class conservative Christian society, not least of the Whe...

In Ps. 40, we see the faith of David in action.  Amid his trials and tribulations, set before our eyes are two essential ingredients of genu...

"In the receiving of grace from God, we have not communion with Christ, who is yet the treasury and storehouse of it, unless we look up...

I really like this song.  You can listen to it at  Vimeo. I once was lost in darkest night Yet thought I knew the way. The sin that pro...

Thomas Brooks on true grace: "The objects of true grace are supernatural.  True grace is conversant about the choicest and the highes...