Posted in Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, Thats Entertainment, Worship on December 28, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Here’s more Tozer from the sermon I linked yesterday. The sermon is wonderful. There are not many better ways to spend forty minutes of your time than listening to this message.
Because we’re not worshippers, we’re wasting other peoples’ money tremendously, we’re marking time, we’re spinning our wheels with the axels up on wood-blocks, burning the [...]
Posted in Good quotes, Worship on December 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I was listening to Tozer again and came across this really good quote in his fourth sermon, “If You Won’t Worship, the Rocks Will,”* in his “The Chief End of Man” series. I will give you the quote first, and then add some observations below:
It is quite a significant thing that all the great [...]
Posted in Baptist Matters, Exegesis and Theology on December 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I thought that James Boyce’s little section on omnipresence was good, particularly the sources (Hodge and Turretine) he points to.
HIS OMNIPRESENCE.*
By this word we express the relation of God as present with creation.He is present everywhere. He is present at one and the same time everywhere.
His presence is not merely contact, [...]
Posted in J. S. Bach, Personal Matters on December 25, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I brought along my MP3 player to the Christmas Eve concerts last night, and have this to share with you this Christmas day. This is one of Bach’s organ settings to Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland. Please excuse my occasional jostling the recorder.
Posted in Hymns and Poetry on December 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas!
Adeste, fideles was written by John Wade in the mid-before the 18th century, and here translated by Frederick Oakeley (1802-80), W. T. Brooks and others.
O come, all ye faithful,
Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem:
Come and behold him,
Born the King of angels:
Refrain: O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us [...]
Posted in Unimportant Remarks on December 21, 2006 | 6 Comments »
How appropriate that this should happen on the longest and darkest day of the year.1
The good thing for Greg Linscott is that now the days start getting brighter.
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1Technically speaking, the winter solstice occurs on December 22d this year. But, then again, from what I understand, the resignation is not effective until tomorrow.
Posted in Baptist Matters, Church History on December 20, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Brackney tells of Spurgeon’s involvement in the Downgrade Controversy, where he expressed concerned about the liberal positions held by those in the leadership in the Baptist Union.
[Spurgeon] declared that, theologically, the Union was ‘going downhill at breakneck speed.’ He noticed less veneration for the Scriptures, a lessening of the importance of Christ in Arian and [...]
Posted in Baptist Matters, Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, Worship on December 19, 2006 | 6 Comments »
William Brackney in his Genetic History of Baptist Thought (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004) believes that hymns were influential in Baptist theology. He says, “Perhaps no other source of Baptist thought better reflects the importance of religious experience than what Baptists sing. . . . What Baptists sing reveals an extension of their theological [...]
Posted in Hash on December 18, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The pastor of Christ Reformed Baptist Church in Milwaukee, WI had a post last week on reverence in worship.
Reverential joy is also a restrained joy. When we read the Commandment and its attendant warning we are meant to be restrained. We are meant to ponder carefully every word and gesture while worshipping God, [...]
Posted in Hymns and Poetry on December 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
CHRIST’S NATIVITY.
by Henry Vaughan
I.
AWAKE, glad heart ! Get up, and sing !
It is the birthday of thy King.
Awake ! awake !
The sun doth shake
Light from his locks, and all the way
Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
Awake, awake ! hark how th’ wood rings,
Winds whisper, and the busy springs
A consort make ;
Awake ! [...]
Posted in Exegesis and Theology, Good quotes on December 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I have more Gregory of Nazianzus for you:
For it is necessary to be truly at leisure to know God; and when we can get a convenient season, to discern the straight road of the things divine. And who are the permitted persons? They to whom the subject is of real concern, and not they who [...]
Posted in Worship on December 13, 2006 | 3 Comments »
In Singing and Making Music, Paul Jones writes,
Today traditional church musicians speak out against the inundation of ‘praise’ choruses for similar theological and musical reasons. In the mid-twentieth century, Robert Rayburn and others printed similar criticisms of ‘gospel songs,’ which, interestingly enough, are often the so-called ‘grand old hymns of the church’ to which older [...]
Posted in Church History, Good quotes on December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The 2d century Roman government suspected and accused the early Christians of (among other things) being subversive to their authority. They had heard that they expected a kingdom and followed this “King” Jesus Christ. Justin Martyr attempted to address this in his First Apology,
And when you hear that we look for a kingdom, you suppose, [...]
Posted in Hash, Resources on December 11, 2006 | 7 Comments »
The “Tozer Devotional” was really good a few days ago. I commend it to you.
Many a man of God is being subjected to cruel pressure by the ill-taught members of his flock who scorn his slow methods and demand quick results and a popular following regardless of quality.
I take this review of The Nativity Story [...]
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