GOSPEL DELTA

Fighting Sin by Awakening Affections

The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will. So the path forward is not to decrease one’s affections but rather to enlarge them and fill them with “heavenly things.” Here one is not trying to escape the painful [...]

Missional Church Made Simple

This is a helpful introduction to the difference between missional and attractional models of being the Church. However, this understanding of missional church is a tad individualistic. The Church should be doing mission as a community, locked arm-in-arm, and living everyday lives together with Gospel intentionality. One of the pitfalls of the missional model is [...]

The Gospel in 3 Words

“Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be adoption through propitiation, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.”
—J.I. Packer, Knowing God

The Cure for Cold Religion

I came across this quote today by Thomas Watson and it got me thinking about a study I just did on Romans 8:1-11, about life in the Spirit and being spiritually minded. Watson writes:

The reason our affections are so chilled and cold in religion-is that we do not warm them with thoughts of God. Hold a [...]

Resolved…To Study the Bible

From Jonathan Edwards’s “Resolutions“:

28. Resolved: To study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive, myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

Excuses For Not Praying - D.A. Carson

Excerpt from “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers” by D.A. Carson
I Am Too Busy
Lillian Guild tells an amusing story of an occasion when she and her husband were driving along and happened to notice a late-model Cadillac with its hood up, parked at the side of the road. Its driver [...]

Suffering and Surrender

HT: Ray Ortlund