Reformation Day
Here are a few Luther-related links to enjoy in honor of Reformation Day 2009. Download for free Max McLean’s reading of Martin Luther’s speech: HERE I STAND – MARTIN LUTHER Watch this clip from the the 2003 movie “Luther” starring Joseph Fiennes. This scene portrays Luther’s famous speech at the Diet of Worms in a brilliant...
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George Müller’s theology was shaped by an experience in his mid twenties when he “came to prize the Bible alone as THE standard of judgement”. He records in his autobiography that “It was at this time that God began to show me that his word alone is our standard of judgment in spiritual things; that it can be explained only by the Holy Spirit; and that in our day, as well as in former times, he is the teacher of his people. The office of the Holy Spirit I had not experimentally understood before that time. Indeed, of the office of each of the blessed persons, in...
read moreAs kingfishers catch fire…
by Gerard Manley Hopkins As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves-goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came. Í say móre: the just man justices; Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is- Chríst-for Christ plays in ten...
read moreQuarry Me Deep
The Deeps Lord Jesus, give me a deeper repentance, a horror of sin, a dread of its approach. Help me chastely to flee it and jealously to resolve that my heart shall be Thine alone. Give me a deeper trust, that I may lose myself to find myself in Thee, the ground of my rest, the spring of my being. Give me a deeper knowledge of Thyself as saviour, master, lord, and king. Give me deeper power in private prayer, more sweetness in Thy Word, more steadfast grip on its truth. Give me deeper holiness in speech, thought, action, and let me not seek moral virtue apart from Thee. Plough deep in me,...
read moreHow do you feel about the Prosperity Gospel?
How do you feel about the “Health, Wealth and Prosperity Gospel”? Do you feel about it the way God feels about it? I’ve heard so many people speak to me about different prosperity preachers on TV with warm terms, saying such things as, “Well, at least they’re bringing people to Christ” or “Who are we to judge, they get it close enough”. It makes me sick to my stomach. When I think about the Prosperity Gospel, more than any other false gospel out there, I get really, really angry. If you don’t get angry, then you don’t know the...
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