Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'" --Jeremiah 6:16

 

12 October, 2006   comments: (0) Wonderful Plan?   The Truth Was Worth Nearly an Hour in The Flames   John Foxe About eight o'clock, on February 9, 1555, John Hooper was led forth, and many thousand persons were collected, as it was market-day. All the way, being straitly charged not to speak, and beholding the people, who mourned bitterly for him, he would sometimes lift up his eyes towards heaven, and look very cheerfully upon such as he knew: and he was never known, during the time of his being among them, to look with so cheerful and ruddy a countenance as he did at that time. When he came to the place appointed where he should die, he smilingly beheld the stake and preparation made for him. . . Now, after he had entered into prayer, a box was brought and laid before him upon a stool, with his pardon from the queen, if he would turn. At the sight whereof he cried, "If you love my soul, away with it!" ... [Read More!] 6 October, 2006   comments: (0) Wonderful Plan?   They Died Well. How Would We Handle the Plague?   DA Carson The Puritans published sermons and books on how to die well; they cherished collected "last words" of Christians who had already gone to be with the Lord. But today we find it exceedingly difficult to look death squarely in the face and talk about it. Consider this 1593 poem, written by Thomas Nashe an Elizabethan author of no great repute who penned these lines, possibly his best, when he along with hundreds of thousands of others contracted the plague and lay on their deathbed. ... [Read More!] 14 February, 2006   comments: (0) Wonderful Plan?   How Much Do You Love Christ? (Take The Test) One early church leader expressed his love for Christ in this way: "If my father were weeping on his knees before me, my mother hanging on my neck behind me, my brethren, sisters, and kinsfolk - howling on every side to retain me in a sinful course, I would fling my mother to the ground, run over my father, despise all of my kindred and tread them under my feet, that I might run unto Christ". What follows could be considered a "questionnaire", useful for testing your own love for Christ. It comes to us from the Puritan pen of Thomas Vincent... [Read More!] 8 February, 2006   comments: (0) Wonderful Plan?   The Martyrdom of Polycarp - A.D. 155 Three days before he was apprehended, as he was praying at night, he fell asleep, and saw in a dream the pillow take fire under his head, and presently consumed. Waking thereupon, he forthwith related the vision to those about him, and prophesied that he should be burnt alive for Christ's sake. The pursuers having arrived late in the day found him gone to bed in the top room of the house. ... [Read More!] 2 August, 2005   comments: (0) Wonderful Plan?   Does God Have a Wonderful Plan For Them? We hear it all of the time in America. Modern evangelism's universal mantra: "God has a wonderful plan for your life". It's often part of an appeal to unbelievers to surrender their life to Christ, in order to enjoy the earthly benefits of being a Christian. But is it best to use the fruits of salvation as a draw card for salvation? Certainly this would not be effective in other places in the world such as the Sudan, where coming to Christ will result in almost certain persecution. Does Christianity really offer a better earthly life to such people as these?... [Read More!] Page: [ 1 2 3 >> ] Prev | Next Page of 3. Prev | Next        Home  |   About  |  Videos   |  Calvinism