theory and practice

“There is,” says John Newton, “an amazing and humbling difference between the conviction we have of the beauty and excellence of divine truths, and our actual experience of their power ruling in our hearts.”
Background basics
There are people who don’t see any beauty or excellence in divine truths, and remain content with the merely theoretical pursuit [...]

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a strange tendency?

I’ve been reading Ken Lodge’s new book sporadically in my lunchtimes (A Critical Introduction to Phonetics). It’s not exactly what I expected it would be like, but gives plenty of useful insights. For any phon-people reading, Lodge has two articles on thorny subjects which are extremely interesting and provocative – ‘Some handy notes on phonology’ [...]

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three at golgotha

Has anyone come across anything along these lines before, as a way of distinguishing between the three crucifixions at Calvary?

One had sin on him but not in him; one had sin in him but not on him; one had sin in him and on him.

Or this:

One was dying for sin, one was dying to sin, [...]

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cry aloud, spare not

For all its apparent foolishness, the preaching of the word is in reality the power of God and the wisdom of God. And here’s an article that discusses it, broken into 4 chunks (so far); if you’re only going to click on one, I like Part 2 best. (But Part 3 is pretty good too.)

A [...]

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too good to be true

I’m grateful to Jeremy Walker for posting Spurgeon’s account of his spiritual experience. (Was it his conversion? or was that earlier?) The first paragraph quoted there is very movingly true to life. It’s strange, incidentally, how often unconverted and uninterested people are so quick to take the threatenings of scripture to themselves – people often [...]

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the neglect

This poor neglected blog. I’m trying to write 2000 words tonight for a deadline on Monday. I’ll be back, but not till next week!

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all the difference

Something came up in discussion last night which reminded me of what Andrew Bonar says right at the end of his wee book, The Gospel Pointing to the Person of Christ (it was good to have that kind of conversation in a frantic week).
The sum of the matter is this. There is a vast difference [...]

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