Crumbs from the Master's Table

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...

I'm reading through Ezekiel nowadays for my soul's breakfast most mornings. And I came across Ezek. 14:12-14 today: And the word o...

Leon Morris: The doctrine of final judgment . . . stresses man's accountability and the certainty that justice will finally triumph ov...

A brief Lutheran prayer of self-dedication to Christ, based on Rom. 14:7: “O Jesus Christ, I live to you; I die to you; living or dying, I a...

"One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner." —John Buynan, Pilgrim's Progress (New York: Penguin, 2008), ...

Consider Voltaire: "God will forgive; that's his business." Now consider the apostle Paul: "Because of your stubbor...

How does our notion of the separation of church and state stand up to Jer. 50:14 (and countless other places in the prophetic word)? Does th...

This Lord's Day sermon  at  NCC  should be compulsory listening in the evangelical world as a model of how Matt. 25:31-46 needs to be un...

"The highest end and happiness of men is to view God's excellency, to love him and receive expressions of his love; and that theref...

Speaking of trinitarian love toward us—the fountain of divine love in the Father's sending of the Son, the purchase of the benefits of t...

The following poem is called A Litany in Time of Plague : Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss; This world uncertain is; Fond are life...

All of us are imbalanced people.  None of us stays on the horse.  I believe it was Luther who pictured man as a drunk who is always falling ...

Is the man Messiah Jesus free?  Does he experience perfect liberty in his choices or not?  And is he capable of doing something sinful?  Is ...