Thursday, October 29, 2009
How willingly do people go to hell?
Does anyone stand by the lake of fire and jump in? http://ow.ly/xdKq
Talking Back To Your Self
The main art in the matter of spiriual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: 'Why are thou cast down' -- what business have you to be disquieted? You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself 'Hope thou in God' -- instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must go on to remind yourself of what God has pledged Himself to do. Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil and the whole world and say with this man: 'I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is also the health of my countenance and my God.'
- Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Lessons from Psalm 42)
- Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Lessons from Psalm 42)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Worth quoting
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart or be roused to fear and obey him with sufficient fear until they properly understand how much they are indebted to his mercy.
- John Calvin
He is your friend who pushes you closer to God.
- Abraham Kuyper
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
- John Calvin
He is your friend who pushes you closer to God.
- Abraham Kuyper
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
Monday, October 26, 2009
What to Do if Revivial Comes
http://s3.amazonaws.com/tgc-documents/carson/2003_what_to_do_if_revival_comes.pdf
The above link is an article by D.A. Carson printed in Modern Reformation in 2003. Another great resource on revival is Iain Murray's book, Revival and Revivalism, Banner of Truth, 1994
The above link is an article by D.A. Carson printed in Modern Reformation in 2003. Another great resource on revival is Iain Murray's book, Revival and Revivalism, Banner of Truth, 1994
Prayer of an alien child
O, most merciful, holy Father --
my self. my real me is only before me when it is before You.
and i am always before You.
A self-confident religious world
tells me to pull off masks. to be authentic.
be real.
Before You, the only one who is True –
i have no mask. i have no authenticity.
realness for others is falseness before the Real.
The burning gaze of Your holy word
pays no heed to a shell. It sees me. me.
Exposing all. Missing nothing.
To call you my Father –
to call upon Your Name as progeny
calls into question the essence of fatherhood.
There are no identifying family characteristics
You of pure sight. i bored glance.
You of righteous right arm. i stealing hand.
You of merciful heart. i dead stone.
You of purposed mind. i distracted lust.
You of eternal holiness. i common death.
A True Son You have.
A True Son who is pure radiance of You.
A True Son in whom You are forever pleased.
A True Son in whom there is no need.
A True Son who speaks You. Who is You.
A True Son You have.
This alien calling you Father has no recognition.
i have Only a Mediator –
a bloody document of adoption.
Your True Son taking on what i am supposed to be.
Your True Son appeasing.
Your True Son made sin.
This alien calling you Father has no recognition.
i have Only a Mediator --
a bloody document of adoption.
Your True Son sent. By You.
Your True Son forsaken. By You.
Your True Son slaughtered. By You.
Your True Son raised. By You.
for me. me.
O, most merciful, holy Father --
My Mediator is only before me when I am before You.
and i am always before You.
Before You, the only one who is True –
Your alien child comes.
bringing My true sons.
Praying.
they will know.
You.
as alien children.
tedd mathis
october 2009
my self. my real me is only before me when it is before You.
and i am always before You.
A self-confident religious world
tells me to pull off masks. to be authentic.
be real.
Before You, the only one who is True –
i have no mask. i have no authenticity.
realness for others is falseness before the Real.
The burning gaze of Your holy word
pays no heed to a shell. It sees me. me.
Exposing all. Missing nothing.
To call you my Father –
to call upon Your Name as progeny
calls into question the essence of fatherhood.
There are no identifying family characteristics
You of pure sight. i bored glance.
You of righteous right arm. i stealing hand.
You of merciful heart. i dead stone.
You of purposed mind. i distracted lust.
You of eternal holiness. i common death.
A True Son You have.
A True Son who is pure radiance of You.
A True Son in whom You are forever pleased.
A True Son in whom there is no need.
A True Son who speaks You. Who is You.
A True Son You have.
This alien calling you Father has no recognition.
i have Only a Mediator –
a bloody document of adoption.
Your True Son taking on what i am supposed to be.
Your True Son appeasing.
Your True Son made sin.
This alien calling you Father has no recognition.
i have Only a Mediator --
a bloody document of adoption.
Your True Son sent. By You.
Your True Son forsaken. By You.
Your True Son slaughtered. By You.
Your True Son raised. By You.
for me. me.
O, most merciful, holy Father --
My Mediator is only before me when I am before You.
and i am always before You.
Before You, the only one who is True –
Your alien child comes.
bringing My true sons.
Praying.
they will know.
You.
as alien children.
tedd mathis
october 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
An indictment of goodness
Philippians 3:7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Philippians 3:7"
Notice now that he does not only say, But what was gain to me I later saw as indifferent, as unimportant -- no: as loss. To repent . . . does not mean to be liberalized, to become indifferent to what we formerly were, to the former objects of our devotion and the former conduct of our lives, but to be horrified by it all. . . . Recognition not of some imperfection but precisely of the guiltiness, perversity, and reprobateness of his glorious Pharisaism, irreproachable and upright as it was en sarki (in the flesh), recognition of the indictment not on his wickedness but on his goodness -- that is what came upon him dia ton Christon (for the sake of Christ), that was the meaning that Christ's work had for his attitude to these things."
Karl Barth, Epistle to the Philippians, page 97.
From http://christisdeeperstill.blogspot.com/
Notice now that he does not only say, But what was gain to me I later saw as indifferent, as unimportant -- no: as loss. To repent . . . does not mean to be liberalized, to become indifferent to what we formerly were, to the former objects of our devotion and the former conduct of our lives, but to be horrified by it all. . . . Recognition not of some imperfection but precisely of the guiltiness, perversity, and reprobateness of his glorious Pharisaism, irreproachable and upright as it was en sarki (in the flesh), recognition of the indictment not on his wickedness but on his goodness -- that is what came upon him dia ton Christon (for the sake of Christ), that was the meaning that Christ's work had for his attitude to these things."
Karl Barth, Epistle to the Philippians, page 97.
From http://christisdeeperstill.blogspot.com/
Monday, October 19, 2009
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