another poll

Here’s a question for you. I’m just posting quickly as I try to catch up with emails etc from the last few days. And for nefarious purposes of my own, I’m (a) only giving the two options and (b) not giving any context for the question just yet. Feel free to discuss.

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from the diary of thomas cole

What follows here constitutes the main part of Andrew Bonar’s preface to his little book The Person of Christ. It is of vast importance, he says, to ‘connect at all times the person of Christ with his work’ (which is what he aimed to draw attention to in writing).
Toplady quotes the following case from the [...]

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have your say

Just trying out the brand-new polling option WordPress has bestowed on us. Geoff Hoon’s latest contribution seem ripe for ridicule.

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a petition to sign

For everyone who hasn’t had an email from me about this yet, I’d just like to draw your attention to this petition on the Number 10 site:
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to to re-categorise lap dancing clubs as Sex Encounter Establishments.”
Since the Licensing Act of 2003, lapdancing clubs have been classified as leisure [...]

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traill on the benediction

An old note I had of something Robert Traill said.
He’d been arguing that the fountain of grace is grace in God. He demonstrates that there is grace in each of the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, 1 Pet 5:10, the Son, John 1:14, and the Holy Spirit, Heb 10:29 or Zech 12:10.
“It is [...]

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trinitarian worshippers

Following on from this discussion, and the points raised about whether it is possible to love or worship one person of the Trinity exclusive of the others, I’d like to post something else that Thomas Goodwin has said.
In his work on faith (‘The Object and Acts of Justifying Faith’), Goodwin discusses how all three persons [...]

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no need to choose

In his work on the Holy Spirit, Thomas Goodwin devotes a chapter to discussing how ‘we not only partake of the effects of the Holy Spirit’s operations in us, but also of his person dwelling in us.’ He follows this up in typical Puritan fashion with a chapter on the ‘uses’ we should make of [...]

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a motive for worship

John Owen says this on the incarnation of God the Son:
“His infinite condescension, in the assumption of our nature, did no way divest him of his divine essential excellencies. For a time, they were shadowed and veiled thereby from the eyes of men, when he ‘made himself of no reputation, and took on him the [...]

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dignity in life

At the minimum, recognising the dignity of human life means aiming to preserve it – whether other people’s or your own.
Hot on the heels of Mary Warnock’s outrageous opining on what she called the “duty” of elderly people with dementia to have their lives ended, in order not to waste resources and for the greater [...]

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in real life

Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting in person two of the best writers I know of in the blogging world.
One is Seraphic Single, who writes brilliantly at stillseraphic.blogspot.com on the single life as a conscientious Catholic (or, if that doesn’t move you, providing some blood-stirring commentary on issues such as freedom of speech and [...]

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