I recently read Dabney's Principles of Christian Economy and was deeply impressed by its practicality and biblically derived principles. Since there is much wisdom in in this article, and it is out of copyright, I have elected to share it in its entirety. It can be found in his 5 volume work reprinted by Sprinkle [...]
Genesis 4:9, "Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” [Cain] said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”" Cain asks the rhetorical question trying to hide his murderous crime, "Am I my brother's keeper?" His assumed answer is “No!” but that is not what Lord commands mankind. As the [...]
Thomas Watson. Heaven Taken by Storm: Showing the Holy Violence a Christian Is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory. Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications. 1992. 129pp. Hardback. $14.95. Introduction In Heaven Taken by Storm, Thomas Watson sets out to make what amounts to a Christian handbook for life in expositing and applying [...]
J. Gresham Machen. Christianity and Liberalism. New Edition. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009. 176 pp. Summary In Christianity & Liberalism J Gresham Machen successfully sought to present the clear-cut case that Christianity and Liberalism are not simply different parties within a unified body of the Church, like Presbyterianism and [...]
Here is an outline I created of Thomas Watson's "A Body of Divinity" from the section on WSC Question & Answer #1: Westminster Shorter Catechism1: Question 1: What is the chief end of man? Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify GodA, and to enjoy him forever2. A: 1 Corinthians 10:3134 - “So, whether you [...]
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. - Psalm 107:1-31 The Thanksgiving [...]
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