Andy Upton

HT Bish http://thebluefish.org/2009/01/idol-factory.html

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:01:24 +0000

HT Bish http://thebluefish.org/2009/01/idol-factory.html

Five things to be concerned about

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:55:51 +0000

After giving us five things that he is thankful for, Ray Ortlund gives us five things he is concerned about. This is worth thinking deeply about:

1. Too many churches remain uninvolved in and even unaware of the new things God is doing. They seem stuck in old patterns of dysfunction. Will they be left behind and lost to tragic inconsequentiality?

2. A tsunami of sin has been slamming us for years now, especially through the internet and increasingly filthy “entertainment.” When will we get sick to our stomachs, sick of ourselves, sick enough to cry out to God for the massive cleansing only he can give? We tolerate sins that put our Savior on the cross. When will we become indignant enough to change?

3. Even in churches and movements that God is blessing, still, prayer can appear to be perfunctory at times. What is our confidence — our cool personalities, or the power of the Holy Spirit in our weakness?

4. My generation and above has most of the money. What are we doing with it? Padding our comfortable lives, or plowing it into the cause of Christ? Lazy self-indulgence is a huge temptation for older people. But the next decade can be the greatest season of our entire lives, if we will invest our historically unprecedented wealth in the rising generations of Christ’s soldiers.

(See http://christisdeeperstill.blogspot.com/2008/12/going-into-2009.html)

Total depravity!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:15:04 +0000

Total depravity!

Virgo Bible Insight

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:10:47 +0000

Virgo Bible Insight

Piper on why God doesn't waste Satan

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:10:13 +0000

Piper on why God doesn't waste Satan

"The way in which we maintain “the expulsive power of a new affection” is the same as the way we..."

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:07:00 +0100

“The way in which we maintain “the expulsive power of a new affection” is the same as the way we first discovered it. Only when grace is still “amazing” to us does it retain its power in us. Only as we retain a sense of our own profound sinfulness can we retain a sense of the graciousness of grace.”

- Sinclair Ferguson Expelling Worldliness with a New Affection - Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Inc

"Evangelical humiliation is a sense that a Christian has of his own utter insufficiency,..."

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:40:26 +0100

“Evangelical humiliation is a sense that a Christian has of his own utter insufficiency, despicableness, and odiousnesss, with an answerable frame of heart.”

- Evangelical Humiliation :: classics, humility, jonathan edwards, reading :: A Reformed, Christian Blog

Carson expands on social action (one of those five points)

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:35:05 +0100

Carson expands on social action (one of those five points)

"20 Resolutions from the book of James from Sinclair Ferguson James 1:5 To ask God for wisdom..."

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:30:30 +0100

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20 Resolutions from the book of James from Sinclair Ferguson

James 1:5 To ask God for wisdom to speak and with a single mind
James 1:9-10 To boast only in exaltation in Christ, & humiliation in world
James 1:13 To set a watch over my mouth
James 1:19 To be constantly quick to hear, slow to speak James 2:1-4 To learn the gospel way of speaking to poor and the rich
James 2:12 To speak always in the consciousness of the final judgment
James 2:16 To never stand on anyone’s face with my words
James 3:14 To never claim as reality something I do not experience
James 4:1 To resist quarrelsome words in order to mortify a quarrelsome heart
James 4:11 To never speak evil of another
James 4:13 To never boast in what I will accomplish
James 4:15 To always speak as one subject to the providences of God
James 5:9 To never grumble, knowing that the Judge is at the door
James 5:12 To never allow anything but total integrity in my speech
James 5:13 To speak to God in prayer whenever I suffer
James 5:14 To sing praises to God whenever I am cheerful
James 5:14 To ask for the prayers of others when I am sick
James 5:15 To confess it freely whenever I have failed
James 5:15 To pray with and for one another when I am together with others James 5:19 To speak words of restoration when I see another wander