Tag: Links
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When He Leave Us No Rest
“But above everything else we can feel the beginnings of a strong drawing of God in our hearts when he leaves us no rest and weans us from earthly vanities, and mystically inspires us with a sense of necessity which compels us to take deeper interests in the higher things of life and makes us…
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The Best Labor
This morning I was reading the puritan Thomas Manton’s “Commentary on Jude” and I was just so impressed by how good the Puritans are at expounding Scripture – so deep and at the same time so simple, and so practical and heart-warming. It’s so different from reading Karl Barth. Barth reminds me of my law…
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Prayer and Government
This morning I had the privilege of doing the invocation during the ceremony of the turn-over of command of the outgoing City Police Director to the incoming officer-in-charge. I prayed in line with 1 Tim. 2: 1-3, “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be made for all men, for…
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Give Up Yourself!
“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes everyday and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing…
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Sincere Gratitude
“And so no man can be truly thankful to God for the dying love of Christ, and for the infinite mercy and love of God toward himself, and yet lead a wicked life. His gratitude, if sincere, will lead him to be holy.” – Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits (The Banner of Truth Trust,…
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His Grace Alone
I was saddened by what I read about Ted Haggard, but I decided not to comment on it for reasons similar to those of Tim Challies: “To this point I have refrained from mentioning the issue for reasons related primarily to my own lack of sanctification.” This morning, however, I was reading 1 Corinthians 10,…
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Philippine History
I bought some new books from PCBS today and while there I bumped into a friend who writes a weekly column for a local daily. We fell into talking about theology and local politics, and soon the conversation turned to Philippine History and authors of books on Philippine History, such as Agoncillo, Constantino, Gregorio Zaide…
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Devotion and Delight
“… devotion that responds to grace does not so much seek to gain delight as to give delight to the Lord of grace. The love that is kindled by God’s love seeks not its own delight but brings tribute to the Beloved.” Edmund P. Clowney, “Living Art: Christian Experience and the Arts” in God and…
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Law from a Christian Perspective
I recently listened to a couple of audios dealing with Christianity and law. I found them at a website named Redeeming Reason. Here they are: Charles Emmerich – The Law from a Christian Perspective Albert Alschuler – Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Secularization of American Law
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Nothing New
I will be gone for more than a week – duty calls! The difficult thing is deciding what books to take with me. I’m thinking of either Karl Barth’ Church Dogmatics (vol. 1) or John Owen’s Communion with God – and of course a copy of the Labor Code of the Philippines! Anyway, here’s something…
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