I find these definitions from CJ Mahaney’s book Humility very helpful: Humility: Honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness. Pride: Aspiring to the state and position of God and refusing to acknowledge our dependence on him.
Archives for June 2011
Christians Should Not be Boring
In Creed or Chaos?, Dorothy Sayers has a chapter where she points out that most people outside the church would have listed the most important Christian virtues something like this: “respectability; childishness; mental timidity; dullness; sentimentality; censoriousness; and depression of the spirits.” In other words, many thought that Christians were dull, judgmental, and lacking passion. […]
Don't Divide Christians into Two Groups
Lloyd-Jones, in Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: Read the Beatitudes, and there you have a description of what every Christian is meant to be. It is not merely the description of some exceptional Christians. . . . I pause with that for just a moment, and emphasize it, because I think we must […]
The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards in Categories
As I’ve been working on my book on gospel-centered productivity, Jonathan Edward’s resolutions have been very relevant and significant. Edwards is an example to us of true productivity—he shows us that true productivity is about a life well lived and that, even more, a life well lived is a God-centered life. Edwards also shows us that […]
Jonathan Edwards' First Resolution
I love Jonathan Edwards’ first resolution: “Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think […]
What is Supplication?
The Bible talks often about supplication as a substantial type of prayer (Philippians 4:6, etc.). But what is supplication? It is not simply asking God for things. Rather, it is making a case before God. JP Moreland explains this well in Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life […]
What is the Purpose of College for a Christian?
JP Moreland in Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul: How, then, should this [positive] attitude toward extrabiblical intellectual training inform parents and youth groups when they prepare Christian teenagers to go to college and tell teens why college is important? According to various studies, […]
How Lack of Theological Training in the Developing World Weakens World Missions
Here are two examples from JP Moreland’s excellent book Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul: I once attended a meeting of missionaries from around the world, at which a national Christian leader from Central America stood up and passionately exhorted North American mission agencies […]
John Piper: Decide to Abandon Retirement as the Reward for Your Life
I love this John Piper video that the media team at Desiring God did last winter:
Spurgeon on Leadership
I came across this book the other day, and it looks helpful: One of the helpful things about the book is that it has a summary of some of Spurgeon’s core leadership lessons at the end of each chapter. Here are a few of those that stand out: A leader must set goals to accomplish […]