I finally looked up crepuscular last night. I seem to remember first encountering this word in the name of a radio program I used to listen to when I was in college – probably a jazz program on KCPR or KCBX – that I think was called “Morning Becomes Crepuscular”… But I could [...]
My new Scripture memory technique
I memorized a lot of verses when I was a kid – my parents encouraged me to do so, I memorized some for Sunday School, and eventually I had to do a lot of memorization when I went to Christian Jr/High School (in El Cajon, CA).
In college and (more so) after, though I have wanted [...]
Repentance
There’s one thought I came across in Owen’s Mortification which has kept coming up to me lately, but which I resist — though I understand and acknowledge its truth: that God even grants us repentance — that without His work in our hearts, we would not repent. It’s very obvious in justification – from [...]
Our first NOBC book!
The NOBC’s first read is The Heart of the Matter. I’ve wanted to read Graham Greene for some time, so I appreciate this choice.
“Done” with Mortification
I finally finished Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers by John Owen. A tough read, as I indicated before, and worth a very slow and considered reading – but it is very rewarding. (After it is first very convicting!)
The next book by Owen which I plan to read is Of Communion with [...]
The fool has said in his heart…
I’m working my way through a collection of Spurgeon’s sermons (at least 150-200 of them) on my PDA. In “The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God”, sermon #20 (which you can find here), I ran across this, which I hadn’t heard before:
That passage in the Psalms, “The fool hath said in his heart, there [...]
