Folks ask me from time to time why I’m not a fan of Wild At Heart. Here’s excellent post about why I find Eldredge to be problematic.
Just One Grain of Salt…? (via Random, and Proud of It)
25 Monday Apr 2011
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
A Plea for Men’s Souls
19 Tuesday Apr 2011
From Spurgeon:
Charles H. Spurgeon
When men change [their opinions about the truth] often they generally need to be changed in the most emphatic sense. Our “modern thought” gentry are doing incalculable mischief to the souls of men, and resemble Nero fiddling on top of a tower with Rome burning at his feet.
Souls are being damned, and yet these men are spinning theories. Hell gapes wide, and with her open jaws swallows up myriads, and those who should spread the tidings of salvation are “pursuing fresh lines of thought.” Highly cultured soul-murderers will find their boasted “culture” to be no excuse in the day of judgment.
from Lecture #15.
Let’s pray for those who seem to fall into this category in our day and age. Perhaps God might grant them (and me) repentance. Them, for their fresh lines of thought–and me, for failing to pray for them previously.
Prayer and the Gospel
16 Saturday Apr 2011
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A Cry for Deliverance
Heavenly Father, save me entirely from sin.
I know I am righteous through the righteousness of another, but I groan and long to properly image You. I am a child and should bear Your image.
Enable me to recognize that I am dead to sin. When it tempts me, may I be deaf toward its voice. Deliver me from both the invasion and the dominion of sin.
Let me walk as Christ walked: to live in newness of His life…the life of love, faith and holiness.
Forgive my rebellion, envy, cruelty and pride. Kill these vices. Have mercy on my unbelief–on my corrupt and wandering heart.
When Your blessings come, I idolize them and set my affection on some beloved object: friends, wealth, family, honor, or money. Cleanse this spiritual adultery and give me a chaste heart: close my heart to all but You.
Sin is my greatest curse. Let Your victory be apparent to me and be displayed in my life. Help me to be devoted, confident, obedient, and childlike in my trust of You.
Let me love You with soul, body, mind and strength. Let me love my neighbor as I love myself. Save me from my unregenerate temper, harsh thoughts toward others, slander, cruelty, and unkind manners. Teach me to master my tongue and keep guard the door of my lips.
Fill me with grace daily, that my life would be a fountain of sweet water. Amen.
The Valley of Vision, ed. by Arthur Bennett. “A Cry for Deliverance,” alt.
I have been thinking a great deal about prayer the last couple of days. Many times when I’m in the midst of being tempted by my own thoughts, for example, I simply hold my breath and wait out whatever sin is crouching at my door.
But that’s not what Scripture says I should do.
Gay and Evangelical 