Some pastors appear to derive their ethics from the culture rather than the Bible. In the second century, Tertullian said that earthquakes a...
Malachi 2:15
Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit they are His. And why one? Because He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
II Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
I send you wise men... ~Jesus, Matthew 23:34
One who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. Matthew 10:41
Charles Spurgeon
Chuck Baldwin
Cornelius Van Til
David Whitney/Pasadena, Md
Gary DeMar
Geoffrey Botkin
George Grant
Greg L. Bahnsen
J. Steven Wilkins
John J. Dwyer
John Morrison Birch
John Weaver
Kenneth Gentry
Kent Hovind
Kevin Swanson
Mark Rushdoony
Marshall Foster
Michael Billings
Michael Peroutka
Otto Scott
Ovid Need
Paul Jehle
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
R. C. Sproul, Sr.
R. J. Rushdoony
Raymond Moore
Robert Lewis Dabney
Ron Paul
John Calvin
“…when a woman, considering to what she has been called...does not refuse to endure the pains, or rather the fearful anguish, of [childbirth], or anxiety about... anything else that belongs to her duty, God values this obedience more highly than if, in some other manner, she made a great display of heroic virtues, while she refused to obey the calling of God.”
19th Century Presbyterians and Abortion
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When the Orthodox Presbyterian Church affirmed in 1972 "that voluntary
abortion, except possibly to save the physical life of the mother, is in
violation...
Self-Control
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"Now σωφροσύνη was one of the classical virtues, and if you are reading one
of the classic writings on the cardinal virtues, it would probably
translate ...
How Your Vision Changes As You Age
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As the body ages, so do your eyes. While some changes are heredity-driven,
others are more common – and even caused by the weather in Southern
California! ...
R.C. Sproul 1939-2017
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I met R.C. Sproul during the first week of March 1982 in San Diego at the
International Council on Biblical Inerrancy’s Congress on the Bible. I was
intro...
Wedding Sneak Peak
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As I won't be able to post Septembers pictures soon, I wanted to give a
sneak peak for those who haven't seen any pictures of Micaiah and Taralyn's
wedding...
Big, Big, BIG news....
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.... Clouds covered the skyscape. He prayed for sunshine. And just at the
perfect time, the sun burst forth. He got down on one knee and she said yes.
Now ...
Baby Blessing Has Arrived!
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*Big brother Nehemiah meets his sister for the very first time*
Last Saturday, late in the evening, the Lord brought a precious baby girl
into the Loom...
A Humble Refusal…
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The following is the text of a letter written by Charles Hodge of Princeton
Theological Seminary on behalf of the two General Assemblies of the
Presbyteria...
The History of Fife and Drum in Three Minutes
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There is much more history of the fife and drum that I could have included,
but here's a brief overview. (I only had a few minutes to prepare.) This
was ...
What Does It Mean That God Is Omniscient?
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What does it mean that God is omniscient? The roots of the word communicate
that God has a knowledge (scientia) of all things (omnia). In some ways, to
exp...
Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Elisabeth Elliot (née Howard; born December 21, 1926) died June 15, 2015 at the age of 88.
I once wrote to Elisabeth Elliot. Her handwritten response was this:
"For the Seppis,
with gratitude for your
encouraging words.
Elisabeth Elliot Grim”
and imprinted on the reverse side was her prayer:
Loving Lord & Heavenly Father I offer up today all that I am, all that I have, all that I do, and all that I suffer, to be Yours today and Yours forever. Give me grace, Lord to do all that I know of Your holy will. Purify my heart, sanctify my thinking, correct my desires. Teach me, in all of today's work and trouble and joy, to respond with honest praise, simple trust, and instant obedience, that my life may be in truth a living sacrifice, by the power of Your Holy Spirit and in the name of Your Son Jesus Christ, my Master and my all. Amen.
Elisabeth Elliott Gren
Here’s a conglomeration of what I’ve found on the internet about Elisabeth Elliott today:
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/peaches-in-paradise
“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”
Christian higher education, trotting happily along in the train of feminist crusaders, is willing and eager to treat the subject of feminism, but gags on the word femininity. Maybe it regards the subject as trivial or unworthy of academic inquiry. Maybe the real reason is that its basic premise is feminism. Therefore it simply cannot cope with femininity.
Elisabeth Elliot is a Christian author and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca (now known as Huaorani) of eastern Ecuador. She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. Returning to the United States after many years in South America, she became widely known as the author of over twenty books and as a speaker in constant demand. Elliot toured the country, sharing her knowledge and experience, well into her seventies.
“God never withholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful ― 'severe mercies' at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”―Elisabeth Elliot
Submit radically to God, and do what is right no matter what. Put your love life on the altar and keep it there until God takes it off. Suffering is normal. Have you no scars, no wounds, with Jesus on the Calvary road?
“Pursue obedience with all your might.” ~EE
Elisabeth made famous an anonymous poem that seems to describe her own life of perseverance, as two of her three husbands preceded her in death:
At an old English parsonage down by the sea, there came in the twilight a message to me. Its quaint Saxon legend deeply engraven that, as it seems to me, teaching from heaven.
And all through the hours the quiet words ring, like a low inspiration, ‘Do the next thing.’ Many a questioning, many a fear, many a doubt hath its quieting here.
Moment by moment, let down from heaven, time, opportunity, guidance are given. Fear not tomorrow, child of the King, trust that with Jesus, do the next thing.
Do it immediately, do it with prayer, do it reliantly, casting all care. Do it with reverence, tracing His hand, who placed it before thee with earnest command.
Stayed on omnipotence, safe ‘neath His wing, leave all resultings, do the next thing. Looking to Jesus, ever serener, working or suffering be thy demeanor, in His dear presence, the rest of His calm, the light of His countenance, be thy psalm. Do the next thing.
Here is her brief testimony, told in her typically understated way: My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born. When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times. . . .
Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College. By that time, the family had increased to four brothers and one sister. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.
A year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. In nineteen fifty three we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. The Aucas were in that category—a fierce group whom no one had succeeded in meeting without being killed. After the discovery of their whereabouts, Jim and four other missionaries entered Auca territory. After a friendly contact with three of the tribe, they were speared to death.
Our daughter Valerie was 10 months old when Jim was killed. I continued working with the Quichua Indians when, through a remarkable providence, I met two Auca women who lived with me for one year. They were the key to my going in to live with the tribe that had killed the five missionaries. I remained there for two years.
After having worked for two years with the Aucas, I returned to the Quichua work and remained there until 1963 when Valerie and I returned to the U.S.
Since then, my life has been one of writing and speaking. It also included, in 1969, a marriage to Addison Leitch, professor of theology at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts. He died in 1973. After his death I had two lodgers in my home. One of them married my daughter, the other one, Lars Gren, married me. Since then we have worked together.
She embraced the secret to practical Christianity, the very thing we today are most disinclined to: “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24). Oh, may we not lose our way but follow this woman into the death that cannot die! ~Ray Ortland
"“The routines of housework and of mothering may be seen as a kind of death, and it is appropriate that they should be, for they offer the chance, day after day, to lay down one’s life for others. Then they are no longer routines. By being done with love and offered up to God with praise, they are thereby hallowed as the vessels of the tabernacle were hallowed–not because they were different from other vessels in quality or function, but because they were offered to God. A mother’s part in sustaining the life of her children and making it pleasant and comfortable is no triviality. It calls for self-sacrifice and humility, but it is the route, as was the humiliation of Jesus, to glory.” -EE
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