Tag Archives: sin
Hunting Tiger Woods…
Some biblical thinking on one (sad) current event…. – pdb Hunting Tiger Woods By C.J. Mahaney (here) Tiger Woods wants his privacy back. He wants the media entourage to disappear from his life. He wants to be left alone so … Continue reading
Filed under America, Current Events, Human nature, sin, sports
A Saturday night Savior
Charles Spurgeon brings hope to the Saturday night sinner (and all of us) as he speaks of Jesus Christ, using this text from Hebrews 2:18: “He himself hath suffered being tempted.” It is a common-place thought, and yet it tastes … Continue reading
mayhem
An email brought me this word for the day, and its usage (according to Garner’s Modern American Usage. mayhem: (1) malicious injury to or maiming of a person, orig. so as to impair or destroy the victim’s capacity for self-defense; … Continue reading
Filed under doctrine, Human nature, relationships
“One leak may sink a ship” (Manton)
Puritan Pastor Thomas Manton wrote the following, while preaching on Psalm 119:6. It reminds us that if we allow even one sin to linger around our feet, we may be undone. “Keep but your passion afoot, or your lust afoot, … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Human nature, Manton
“Chemo for My Cancered Soul”
James I. Packer has a great little article on CT’s Christian History web site, entitled God’s Chemo for My Cancered Soul. He is a fan of the puritans, and draws much help from John Owen. Here are two paragraphs from … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Human nature
The Shape of Temptation (by T. Challies)
TIM CHALLIES shares some thoughts on temptation from his reading. ENJOY! (Here is his post, lightly edited.) As I continue reading through Waltke’s Old Testament Theology I continue to dig up pure gold. In one of the earliest chapters Waltke … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Human nature, Personal, Scripture
Tuesday? Thomas Manton: A Constant Obedience
Wicked men have their good moods, and devout pangs in the way to Heaven, but they are not lasting. They will go with God a step or two; but it is said, “He that walketh in the law of the … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Culture, Manton, Personal, Scripture
