When I picked up Slaying Leviathan I wasn’t expecting to read a complete history of Western political thought and the resistance of the Christian Tradition to tyranny (or Leviathan, as the author calls a tyrannical state). This book is helpful is setting our perspective on a long history of development, and therefore helping usContinue reading “Slaying Leviathan Book Review”
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God’s Flaming Glory – Post 15 – God’s Glory in Dependence, According to Jonathan Edwards
In the last post, we saw the glory of God in the believer’s union in Christ. That union is the marrow of Christian existence. Now we will see the blood that runs through the veins of the Christian: trust in God. This, too, reveals the glory of God. If you would like to accessContinue reading “God’s Flaming Glory – Post 15 – God’s Glory in Dependence, According to Jonathan Edwards”
God’s Flaming Glory – Post 14 – God’s Glory in Union, According to Jonathan Edwards
Click here to go to the series page that lists all posts, and provides a series overview. In the last post, we saw how God’s glory in His grand design of redemption. God’s plan is to communicate Himself to His Beloved Bride, the church. Now, in this post, we will ask how God’s grandContinue reading “God’s Flaming Glory – Post 14 – God’s Glory in Union, According to Jonathan Edwards”
Learning to Lament Book Review
This book is a wonderful pastorally sensitive work on learning to grieve well. Is it permissible to grieve? And how do we do it? Paul Mallard answers these questions and more in Learning to Lament. Paul pastorally works through the difficulties of learning how to grieve in a Christ-like way. Lamentation is an expression ofContinue reading “Learning to Lament Book Review”
Alistair Begg, Weddings, Grace and Truth in a Twisted World
Today I recorded a video commenting on a video published by Alistair Begg back in September. If you would like that thirty-minute episode, please contact me at standingbeforegodblog@gmail.com, or if you are a friend of mine, feel free to contact me directly. I retain the right to deny any request as I would prefer sendingContinue reading “Alistair Begg, Weddings, Grace and Truth in a Twisted World”
God’s Flaming Glory – Post 13 – God’s Glory in Redemption, According to Jonathan Edwards
You can read post 12 here, or find the series overview page here. Redemption was God’s end in creating the universe through the communication of His goodness. Redemption and the new creation are the end (or the goal) of the old creation “as the use of a house is the end of… building it.”[1]Continue reading “God’s Flaming Glory – Post 13 – God’s Glory in Redemption, According to Jonathan Edwards”
God’s Flaming Glory – Post 12 – God’s Glory in Creation, According to Jonathan Edwards
You can read Post 11 here, or find the series page here. In all things, God is pursuing the shining out and spreading forth His supreme end in creation: His glory. That one glory consists of His fullness as the Triune God, and the communication of Himself. This “fulness of God,” said Edwards,Continue reading “God’s Flaming Glory – Post 12 – God’s Glory in Creation, According to Jonathan Edwards”
True Spiritual Warfare
Earlier today, on January 15, 2024, Peter Mead put out a post entitled “Is Our View of Satan Too Small?” I highly recommend that you read this small blog post. You can find it via this link: What I want to do in this post is expound a bit on his main pointContinue reading “True Spiritual Warfare”
Sunday Stirrings
It is the affirmation of the Declaration of Independence that it is the Right of the People to abolish the corrupt government, and institute a new Government — which was directly referring to the government of the United States of America.[1] Those that believe there can be no earthly government better than that ofContinue reading “Sunday Stirrings”
God’s Flaming Glory – God’s Triune Glory, According to Jonathan Edwards – Post 11
You can read Post 10 here, or find the series page here. Introduction Jonathan Edwards wrote and spoke of God as Triune and in Trinitarian terms – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Unlike Allah (see Post 2), this Triune God of Scripture of whom Edwards preached was not inward focused and negative,Continue reading “God’s Flaming Glory – God’s Triune Glory, According to Jonathan Edwards – Post 11”
Standing Before God, This We Are and No More 