Spurgeon And Hyper-Calvinism

In Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism, Iain Murray draws four lessons from that conflict:

1. “Genuine evangelical Christianity is never of an exclusive spirit. Any view of the truth which undermines catholicity has gone astray from Scripture.” Spurgeon regretfully disagreed with hyper-Calvinists who “made faith in election a part of saving faith and thus either denied the Christianity of all professed Christians who did not so believe or at least treated such profession with much suspicion.”

2. Spurgeon “wanted to see both divine sovereignty and human responsibility upheld, but when it came to gospel preaching he believed that there needed to be a greater concentration upon responsibility. The tendency of Hyper-Calvinism was to make sinners want to understand theology before they could believe in Christ.”

3. “This controversy directs us to our need for profound humility before God. It reminds us forcefully of questions about which we can only say, ‘Behold, God is great, and we know him not’ (Job 36:26).” “It is to be feared that sharp contentions between Christians on these issues have too often arisen from a wrong confidence in our powers of reasoning and our assumed ability to draw logical inferences.” Spurgeon saw “how a system which sought to attribute all to the grace of God had itself too much confidence in the powers of reason.”

4. “The final conclusion has to be that when Calvinism ceases to be evangelistic, when it becomes more concerned with theory than with the salvation of men and women, when acceptance of doctrines seems to become more important than acceptance of Christ, then it is a system going to seed and it will invariably lose its attractive power.”

Iain H. Murray, Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism (Edinburgh, 1995), pages 110-122.

(HT Ray Ortlund )

God Himself Is The Great Good Of Our Redemption

“The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption. He is the highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ has purchased. God is the inheritance of the saints; he is the portion of their souls. God is their wealth and treasure, their food, their life, their dwelling place, their ornament and diadem, and their everlasting honor and glory. They have none in heaven but God; he is the great good which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they are to rise to at the end of the world.

The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the ‘the river of the water of life’ that runs, and the tree of life that grows, ‘in the midst of the paradise of God.’ The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast. The redeemed will indeed enjoy other things; they will enjoy the angels, and will enjoy one another: but that which they shall enjoy in the angels, or each other, or in anything else whatsoever, that will yield them delight and happiness, will be what will be seen of God in them."

Jonathan Edwards - “God Glorified in the Work of Redemption,” in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, et al (1999): 74-75

(HT Of First Importance )

"Mark His Words" - Mr. Hunter Barnes - Part 2

Taste and See That the Lord Is Good

Psalm 34 (ESV)

1 I will bless the Lord at all times;
his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul makes its boast in the Lord;
let the humble hear and be glad.
3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together!

4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
5 Those who look to him are radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear him, and delivers them.

8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,
for those who fear him have no lack!
10 The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

11 Come, O children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 What man is there who desires life
and loves many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit.
14 Turn away from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
and his ears toward their cry.
16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
20 He keeps all his bones;
not one of them is broken.
21 Affliction will slay the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22 The Lord redeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

A Look At The Amazing Creation Of The Eye

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"Mark His Words" - Mr. Hunter Barnes - Part 1

Jonathan Edwards - Prayer

“If we look through the whole Bible and observe all the examples of prayer that we find there recorded, we shall not find so many prayers for any other mercy as for the deliverance, restoration and prosperity of the church and the advancement of God’s glory and kingdom of grace in the world. . . . The Scripture does not only abundantly manifest it to be the duty of God’s people to be much in prayer for this great mercy, but it also abounds with manifold considerations to encourage them in it and animate them with hopes of success. There is perhaps no one thing that the Bible so much promises, in order the encourage the faith, hope and prayers of the saints, as this . . . . For undoubtedly that which God abundantly makes the subject of his promises, God’s people should abundantly make the subject of their prayers. It also affords them the strongest assurances that their prayers shall be successful.”

Jonathan Edwards, Works (Edinburgh, 1979), II:291

(HT Ray Ortlund)

"Seeking Your Own" In Loving Others - John Piper

"One of the issues in Christian Hedonism—which is the name I love to give to my philosophy of life and my understanding of the Bible—is that you read in 1 Corinthians 13:5, "Love seeks not its own." Another version says, "Love doesn't insist on its own way." But here comes John Piper saying that all of life is a relentless quest for my own joy in God, spilling over in love to people. How does that fit? It sounds like love seeks not its own and here you come and say, "Seek your own joy."

Is that a contradiction? Is this Bible verse against Christian Hedonism? Here is a way to think about it. Back up to verses 1-3, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love I am a noisy gong and a clanging symbol. If I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and have all knowledge and have all faith so as to remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing." And then it says, "If I give away all that I have and deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing." Or the old version—"it prophets me nothing."

Now what kind of argument is that? This is an argument that says, "Don't do that. Don't be the kind of person who gives away all that you have and who delivers your body to be burned lovelessly, because"—here's the argument—"you won't gain anything! Pharisees don't gain anything by trying to call all attention to their sacrificial labors when they are loveless inside. You want gain don't you? Then love authentically!" How does that argument work if love seeks not its own? See where I'm going? The argument is from gain, and yet it seeks not its own.

So here's the way I put it together: It is right to want our loving to be a certain kind of gain, and very wrong to want it to be another kind of gain. If my gain comes from stepping on you, manipulating you, exploiting you, being indifferent or insensitive to you, or using you, then I'm not loving. And it is this kind of gain being denounced in verse 5 with "Love seeks not its own." I don't seek my own at your expense.

What is the alternative? The alternative is that I seek my joy in your blessing. I seek my joy in your joy. I seek my joy in your salvation. I seek my joy in loving you as I long to be loved. That is the gain that verse 3 tells us we receive when we love. So I want to let verse five chasten me and say, "Be careful John Piper lest you take your Christian Hedonism to become a kind of selfish manipulation and exploitation of people."

But I don't want to let verse 5 undermine the truth that God wants us to seek our joy in loving people. You know as well as I do that if someone is loving you in a begrudging way, like, "I really don't want to do this for you, but I'm a Christian and I'm supposed to, so I'll do it," you don't feel very loved. You don't feel very loved when they are dutifully helping you fix your flat tire.

But, if they say, "You know what, it is my delight to do this for you. I just get a lot of joy out of seeing you get helped"—when someone says that to you, and you sense that they really do enjoy blessing you and putting themselves out in order that you might be built up or strengthened or have some need met, you feel wonderfully loved. Christian hedonism goes for that. It says yes, don't renounce the pursuit of that joy! Find your joy in the joy of the beloved, because you get the best joy that way, and they really feel loved that way."

John Piper

Worldliness

Seeing Our Own Need Of Christ

"The way to open our hearts to others is by receiving afresh the grace of God and appreciating what it means: seeing our own need of Christ; coming to receive His mercy; sensing how undeserved His love for us is; remembering how He has also opened His heart to those whose hearts are closed against us. Then we will see that the heart which is too narrow to receive a fellow Christian is too narrow to enthrone the Lord Jesus Christ. But the heart that is opened to receive the grace of Christ will learn to welcome all those whom Christ Himself has welcomed."

Sinclair B. Ferguson, Grow in Grace, 1989, p. 88-89.

What The Gospel Demands

(HT The Tells of Tim)

Tim Conway's Testimony

The Whole Bible Is About Jesus

(HT Gospel-Driven Church)

"Blessed Is the Man"

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly. Alleluia!

For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Alleluia!

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice unto him with reverence. Alleluia!

Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Alleluia!

Arise, O Lord; save me, O Lord my God. Alleluia! Salvation belongeth unto the Lord, and thy blessing is upon thy people. Alleluia!

Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, both now and ever and to ages and ages. Amen. Alleluia! Glory be to thee, O God. Alleluia!



(HT Internet Monk)

The Average Evangelical

(HT 5 Pt. Salt )

Do You Glorify God in Your Movie Watching?

"Yes. I assume the computer you are holding there was probably not built by Christians, and I hope that you are glorifying God as you tap away at it. And of course out from there, there are a 1000 things that we use all day long, and God says, 'whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do all to the glory of God.' And he knows that you are eating this meat that may have been sacrificed to idols, so that means it was probably butchered by an unbeliever, or handled by an unbeliever, shipped by an unbeliever, it may have been cooked by an unbelieving cook. And here you are savoring the product of all those unbelievers' work because you are in that moment giving thanks to God for it, recognizing that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and taking the strength and the joy that comes from it to render back to him.

Now with the arts and with media it is more morally complex than with food. But it is the same principle. The complexity of it is, in those moments what do you do with the moral elements of it that are so contrary to your faith?

I'll just point out one principle because we can talk about this forever. What concerns me is the distinction between entertainment and cultural analysis. To watch something, to study the culture, learn from the culture, be more able to interact with unbelievers for the sake of the glory of Christ is one thing. To just sit and bask in nudity, or bask in fifty f-words, or bask in a world view that is shot through with arrogance to the core, and enjoy it? Hmm. That seems to point to something going on in the heart. And frankly, I have tasted it big time. I think today we are going to have to work at not being shaped by the world because the world has made its world view so scintillatingly attractive.

Movie after movie after movie has come out and most young reformed people are, I would say, indiscriminate. "Let's go to a movie tonight." OK, and then we just choose the best. None of the movies in that theater at that night are any good, probably. But you are just going to do it, because that is what you do. You go to the movies on Friday night, or whatever. And then of course you think, we've got to Christianize this thing somehow.

I just think we need to test our hearts big time. Big time. Why are we able to enjoy hell bound, God ignoring, Christ dishonoring, false world views because we can give it a little twist at the end that it taught us this or that about the world? So, I think the main thing I'm saying there is, test your heart as to whether entertainment is defaulting to the world, or to something more wholesome. We live in an age where we tend to default to the world for entertainment."

John Piper

God's Sovereignty and Human Temptation

Cross Of Christ

"What is there about the cross of Christ which angers the world and stirs them up to persecute those who preach it? Just this: Christ died on the cross for us sinners, becoming a curse for us (Gal. 3:13). So the cross tells us some very unpalatable truths about ourselves, namely that we are sinners under the righteous curse of God's law and we cannot save ourselves. Christ bore our sin and curse precisely because we could gain release from them in no other way. If we could have been forgiven by our own good works, by being circumcised and keeping the law, we may be quite sure that there would have been no cross. Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. And of course men do not like it. They resent the humiliation of seeing themselves as God sees them and as they really are. They prefer their comfortable illusions. So they steer clear of the cross. They construct a Christianity without the cross, which relies for salvation on their works and not on Jesus Christ's. They do not object to Christianity so long as it is not the faith of Christ crucified. But Christ crucified they detest. And if preachers preach Christ crucified, they are opposed, ridiculed, persecuted. Why? Because of the wounds which they inflict on men's pride."

John Stott

The War Against Worry by Randal Pelton

The War Against Worry

Philippians 4:6-9

Worldliness - A.W. Toser

Baptism

"In baptism, by faith, we are united with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. Baptism dramatically portrays what happened spiritually when you received Christ: Your old self of unbelief and rebellion and idolatry died, and a new you of faith and submission and treasuring Christ came into being. That’s what you confess to the world and to heaven when you are baptized."

John Piper

Steak On A Paper Plate

Trevin Wax:

"When it comes to worship, we are frequently told that form doesn’t matter. Style is not what’s important. I get that. I’m not downing contemporary music or advocating a return to liturgy, organs and hymns. I’ve been in contemporary worship services that have put me on my knees before the holiness and majesty of God. Cultural forms adjust and adapt.

But in worship today, there is a tendency toward casualness. The emphasis on feeling God’s closeness in worship may short-circuit the possibility of being transformed by a glimpse of the Transcendent One. There’s hardly any room for feeling awe in worship, and I can’t help but think that part of our problem is the form.

Form and content mirror one another. A church with serious Bible preaching is going to have a serious worship service (contemporary or traditional isn’t what matters, but serious it will be). A church with a feel-good preacher is going to have peppy, feel-good music.

Christians need to sense the weight of God’s glory, the truths of God’s Word, the reality of coming judgment, and the gloriousness of God’s grace. Trying to package the bigness of this God into most casual worship services is like trying to eat steak on a paper plate. You can do it for awhile, but at some point, people will start saying, “I want a dish.”

Read the entire article here.

On the Virtue of Wasting Time

Carl Trueman:

"One of the amazing things about modern American culture is surely the pathological fear of wasting time. It is especially evident in the attitude to children. Public school kids have their lives scheduled from morning till night; homeschool parents seem to regard any second of the day from the age of two that isn't used to learn Latin poetry or the cello or conversational Swahili as time that is wasted. It's a far cry from my childhood, when school ran from 9 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, and then I was free to ride my bike, walk on the common, or just sit around with friends. And it continues in to later life: all the technology we have, and people seem to have less free time than ever.

Indeed, we have surely lost the virtue that is laziness. As Kierkegaard once said, 'Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good' -- a truly amazing theological insight. Some may think that that maybe going a bit far, but compared to the idea that the essence of humanity is busy-ness, it is much to be preferred."

Read the entire article here.

Salvation - Ian Thomas

All Of His Righteousness Is Counted As Ours

"Justification goes beyond forgiveness. Not only are we forgiven because of Christ, but God also declares us righteous because of Christ. God requires two things of us: punishment for our sins and perfection in our lives. Our sins must be punished, and our lives must be righteous. But we cannot bear our own punishment (Ps. 49:7-8), and we cannot provide our own righteousness. “None is righteous; no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). Therefore, God, out of His immeasurable love for us, provided His own Son to do both. Christ bears our punishment, and Christ performs our righteousness. And when we receive Christ (John 1:12), all of His punishment and all of His righteousness is counted as ours (Rom. 4:4-6; 5:1, 19; 8:1; 10:4; 2 Cor. 5:21; Phil. 3:8-9)."

John Piper - This Momentary Marriage p. 46

Glen Coffee - "I've Already Told Christ It's Time to Go"

Glen Coffee's stunning retirement Friday sparked a lot of speculation as to the reason -- including guesses that Coffee had failed a drug test or been involved in a spat with 49ers coach Mike Singletary. Turns out, the truth is much less sinister: Saturday, Coffee told Matt Barrows of The Sacramento Bee that he's headed back to school to complete his undergraduate degree and pursue a master's degree, a decision rooted in his deep religious beliefs.

"Actually when I look back I feel I never should have entered the draft in the first place," said Coffee, who left the University of Alabama after his junior year. "Football was no longer my dream. I found Christ in college. It changed my views on everything. But I still was a football player because it was expected of me, it was something I did all my life. I was basically wasting the [49ers'] time."

"His will, I felt, wasn't football. I felt like I forced football because everyone expected me to play football. He told me a long time ago to walk away from the game."

The 23-year-old's discussion with Barrows seemingly squashed the possibility that he'd go back on his retirement announcement.

"I've already told Christ it's time to go. I've already rung the bell. That's not going to happen," Coffee told Barrows.

San Francisco had been counting on Coffee to help spell starting RB Frank Gore, just as Coffee did during his rookie season. In 14 games last year -- including two starts -- Coffee carried the ball 83 times for 226 yards and a touchdown. Between Coffee and rookie Anthony Dixon, the 49ers were hoping to limit the beating Gore took in 2010. Most of that challenge will now fall on Dixon, unless the 49ers make a move to add another running back.

After Coffee's sudden announcement Friday, Ian Rapoport of the Boston Herald tweeted, "Having covered 49ers RB Glen Coffee for 3 years, not surprised he retired. He has a higher call. Wouldn't shock me if he headed to ministry."

Coffee didn't specifically say that's in his plans after he returns to school at Alabama -- he's just six hours shy of his undergraduate degree in consumer affairs -- but he didn't rule it out either.

"There's going to be people that understand and there's going to be people that don't understand and don't care to understand," Coffee told Barrows. "They're going to feed off that negativity. That's life."

HT: NFL Fanhouse

Lord, I Desire Nothing Else; I Desire Nothing More

“After I rode more than two miles, it came into my mind to dedicate myself to God again; which I did with great solemnity and unspeakable satisfaction. Especially gave up myself to him renewedly in the work of the ministry. And this I did by divine grace, I hope, without any exception or reserve; not in the least shrinking back from any difficulties that might attend this great and blessed work. I seemed to be most free, cheerful and full in this dedication of myself. My whole soul cried, ‘Lord, to thee I dedicate myself! Oh, accept of me and let me be thine forever. Lord, I desire nothing else; I desire nothing more. Oh, come, come, Lord, accept a poor worm. Whom have I in heaven thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.’”

The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Chicago, 1955), page 169.

(HT Ray Ortlund )

How can God allow suffering and evil in the world?

How can God allow suffering and evil in the world? from A Passion for Life on Vimeo.

The Joyful Delight of Following Christ by Randal Pelton

THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN: The Joyful Delight of Following Christ

2 Corinthians 1:23-2:4

The Power Of Words (Proverbs 1:1-7) - Russell Moore

The Power of Words (Proverbs 1:1-7) from Russell Moore on Vimeo.

Three Trees

Three Trees

The Bible can be seen as the story of three trees. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the first. It was a beautiful and lush tree of Paradise with vibrant fruit. "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise. . ." But, despite its beauty and desirous fruit, it was forbidden forever to mankind: "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." But by coveting and by theft Adam and Eve ate of it. Since we were all in our first parents, we lost our lives with them because we all became sinners through the effect of the knowledge gained by that tree, "Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil." By this forbidden, Godlike knowledge of good and evil, we have all fallen.

The second is the Tree of Life. It also was in God's special garden called Paradise. Eating of it can keep a human alive in the body forever but it was denied after they both ate of the forbidden tree: ". . . And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"— therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden. . . " We who were born to them are also denied that most important tree. So, we must die with them. Why can't we stop aging and then dying? We lack the fruit of that tree! It can keep one alive forever. It is currently out of reach of man; but, God has granted a hope for us because of the third Tree.

The third Tree is the Cross. Unlike the two trees that God planted in Paradise, it was planted by man on which they placed Jesus to hang until he was dead. The living fruit that brought death to man hung on a living tree, but Jesus may be likened to a dead fruit hanging upon a dead tree. We are told to eat of it, as it says, "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life," that is, when we come to Him (eat) and believe in Him (drink), we partake of Him. By this simple faith, we will receive the undoing of the effect of the fruit of the first tree. For, as He says, "he that believes on me shall never die." and ". . .He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." We must put our faith in what was done by God on that third tree, namely, that Christ died for our sins, so that we may possess the hope of returning to the Tree of life.

Between the two living trees in the midst of Paradise stands the third dead tree. To get from the tree that occasioned our death to the one that will support eternal, physical life is the Cross. Its arms, in a figure, form a bridge which takes us from the peril of the first tree to the safety of the second. This cross is the heart of the Gospel that saves sinful man. “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” So, God has always been telling us about Trees - each one of them has its own supernatural aspect and effect. The first one God commanded that it not be eaten of, for it contained Godlike knowledge that led to sin. The second one, the Tree of Life, is returned to all who put their faith in the One who hung on the third. Jesus was not left dead though. He was raised immortal and commands that we obey Him that we might have access to that tree of life, as it says in Revelation 2: "To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."

- Stan Tees 08/11/2010

Prolonged Sadness and Depression by Randal Pelton

THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN: Prolonged Sadness and Depression

Psalm 13:1-6

Help in the Time of Need - Bob Jennings

True Repentance

"Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning-a turning away from sin in the direction of God. The two cannot be separated; they are simply complementary parts of the same process."

Louis Berkhoff - Systematic Theology, p. 487.

One Sin Will Destroy You - Bob Jennings

Every Life Has A Story

Randy Alcorn:

"Check out this video produced by a company I really respect, Chick-fil-A. I think it’s very moving. It reminds me of the divine appointments God gives us daily. It also encourages me to pray, even if briefly, for many people I see in passing and do not know. This I do know—God created them, and loves them, and desires them to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). God has appointed one or more of His children, within their sphere of influence, to reach out and touch the lives of these people."



Read the entire article here.

I Am His

"I am His by purchase and I am His by conquest; I am His by donation and I am His by election; I am His by covenant and I am His by marriage; I am wholly His; I am peculiarly His; I am universally His; I am eternally His. Once I was a slave but now I am a son; once I was dead but now I am alive; once I was darkness but now I am light in the Lord; once I was a child of wrath, an heir of hell, but now I am an heir of heaven; once I was Satan's bond-servant but now I am God's freeman; once I was under the spirit of bondage but now I am under the Spirit of adoption that seals up to me the remission of my sins, the justification of my person and the salvation of my soul."

Thomas Brooks

JESUS, the Real Super-Hero by Randal Pelton

This teaching followed VBS where the theme was super heroes.

JESUS, the Real Super-Hero

Hebrews 12:1-3

Joy In God

"Joy in God is the happiest of all joys. There are other sweets, but this is the virgin honey dripping fresh from the comb. Joy in God is also a most elevating joy. Those who joy in wealth grow avaricious. Those who joy in their friends too often lose nobility of spirit. But he who boasts in God grows like God. It is a solid joy, and he who joys in God has good reasons for rejoicing. He has arguments which will justify His joy at any time. It is an abiding joy. In a word, it is celestial joy."

C.H. Spurgeon

Jonathan Edwards - Devoted To God

"On January 12, 1723, I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right to be himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed to take God for my whole portion and felicity; looking on nothing else, as any part of my happiness, nor acting as if it were; and His law for the constant rule of my obedience: engaging to fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, to the end of my life."

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved Panel Discussion

Keynote Panel Questions and Answers from Resolved on Vimeo.

(HT Justin Taylor)