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Below is how George Muller recorded he determined the will of the Lord: I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter.  Nine-tenths of the trouble with people generally is just here.  Nine-tenths of the difficu... [More]

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Logos 4.0 hit the streets today.  So what is it like? I like it. A lot.  Here are just a few reasons why. Welcome home In the old Logos 3 days the user experience paradigm that was offered by Logos and other vendors was very much the same – sure there are feature differences &ndash... [More]

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Our reading group is currently reading Henry Scougals “The life of God in the soul of man”. This is a remarkable book, which I recommend every follower of Jesus Christ read. Col 3:1-4 says “If then you’ve been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right h... [More]

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In this Psalm David has in mind those who are working against him to topple him from the throne. He asks of them "How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?" The great contrast is firstly in where David is saying this from - a position of strength and secondly where these attackers are coming from - a position of misunderstanding about the world they live in [More]

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A few months ago, I began memorizing scripture – I started with Psalm 32.  Today, I had the opportunity to take what I’ve learned from memorizing and meditating on this Psalm and share it in a sermon. More...

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This follows this post and this post dealing specifically with Jehovah’s witnesses. Both Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses have been brainwashed thoroughly.  The secret to this brainwashing is not only their different translations of the Bible, but the additional church sanctio... [More]

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This post follows my previous one which focuses on who Jesus claimed and demonstrated himself to be. Why does the New World translation take pains to switch words? Obeisance rather than worship (Matt 14:25-33, Luke 24:52, Matt 28:16-17, John 9:35-39)?  Nobody uses the word Obeisance ... [More]

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A couple of nights ago, I went to see a couple from our church to talk with them about a Jehovah's Witness friend they have who has been trying to convert them to their church (or rather their cult or religion). We talked at some length and looked at a number of scriptures and I thought I might record some of what we talked about here. [More]

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The story of David and Bathsheba is well known, but not known well enough.  We will often read it and not really check our own hearts as we ought and so we dont always take out everything that we can. Last weekend we went through this in our church and while we covered what God thinks of adult... [More]

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If you are saved by Gods grace through the justification that is given by trusting Jesus Christ for salvation – how do you describe your conversion? [More]

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The term “mastering the Bible” is a hat tip to a very good little book by James Grey called “How to Master the English Bible”. Which while it is a difficult book to purchase, it is a little book well worth purchasing. [More]

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Devotional reading is purposeful reading that is focused on allowing scripture to help us interact with the Lord. This is well described by George Muller of Bristol [More]

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There are several ways to read the Bible that I’ve used over the years and there may be others that you can think of, but in the next few posts I’m going to explore a few of thee and where and when I’ve used them – and where you might like to use them too. The first of these I’m calling “hunger based” [More]

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As previously noted I’m reading through Martin Luther’s Bondage of the will at the moment. Along the way several of his thoughts have jumped out at me on various subjects (not the least of which is his stinging assessment of Erasmus’s book (Bondage of the will was written as a response to a book by... [More]

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You probably know that more Christians are killed for their faith in Jesus today than ever before. There are many countries around the world where people who turn to Christ for salvation don't live very long after doing so. There are many countries where this is the case.  For instance North K... [More]

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