Dear Sir:
Re Canon Pulford’s timely letter concerning ‘youing’ God. Having being brought up to pray Biblically and as one trained in linguistics, I look upon the modern arbitrary trend in English-speaking countries with great disdain. My past employment brought me into contact with some dozen languages other than English, none of which show such lack of taste in addressing God.
Words usually become redundant according to three processes. The …
Posts Tagged ‘Youing’ God
On ‘Youing’ God
Aug 21
To Honour God
Aug 17
To Honour God: The Spirituality of Oliver Cromwell (134 pages)
Classics of Reformed Spirituality Series Edited and introduced by Michael A. G. Haykin.
The pimples and warts of the Protector
The editor opens up this fine little book by explaining that Cromwell (1599-1658) liked to have his portrait painted with all his “roughness, pimples, warts and everything.” History has taken …
… Anglican stalwarts such as Whitefield, Hervey, Toplady and Romaine. The works of these men through God’s sovereign grace cannot be praised enough but the fact that recent biographers have highlighted their activities has tended to give the impression that other denominations, such as the Baptists, were quite inactive during this period. This is by no means the case as the testimony of John Gill shows.
John Gill was born in 1697 in the town of Kettering and became a member of the …
… wrote, “Thank you, Moravians. If ever I am a missionary worth a straw, I shall owe it, under God, to you.” Knowing human nature, it is sheer miracle that these men and women were able to live in near absolute harmony though their day was organised so that little or no private family leisure was possible.
The mission prospers
In 1789 Fuller gave the Indian mission the empty promise it would receive £360 per annum. This challenged Carey’s ideas of independence. Now the …
… on a crucified Saviour for pardon and salvation; and to seek a system of doctrine in the Word of God.” He was subsequently baptised by John Ryland Jr. (1743-1825) in the River Nene on October 5 1783. His wife of two years, Dorothy (Dolly) Packet, an Anglican believer, refused to join him. Carey immediately applied for a preaching licence but the church turned him down after a trial sermon in the summer of 1785. By this time Carey was preaching outside of the denomination and had recently …
New Cowper Book
Aug 21
… appreciation this January to a Canadian publisher. It is entitled William Cowper: The Man With God’s Deep Stamp Upon Him and was scheduled to be printed by the late summer. Now I hear it will be out before Christmas. The unusual title is taken from several of the poet’s works which contain these words and show Cowper’s sufferings in the light of his deep faith. The small, inexpensive book, richly illustrated, is not so much a ‘Life’ as an attempt to trace all the influences …
For Whom did Christ Die?
Oct 5
… good reasons for rejecting this error:
1. The objects of redemption are the objects of God’s love
God has a special saving love which must be distinguished from His general, providential goodness to all men. God does not love all men savingly. For instance, He says, “Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated.” There is thus no common grace pointing to the possibility of salvation for all men, but only a selective saving grace through which Christ secures a people …
… Hulse, David Gay and Ken Stebbins in their campaign to alter radically the Christian’s view of God and His Word. Pastor Silversides traces the roots of opposition to his new divinity in the formation of the Protestant Reformed Churches in the nineteen-twenties under the leadership of Herman Hoeksema (1886-1965), arguing that the PRC presented a caricature of the free-offer position thus fostering controversy and confusion. Instead of giving acceptable proof of this, Silversides caricatures …
