—- Question 2. How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort mayest live and die happy? Answer. Three; the first, how great my sins and miseries are; the second, how I may be delivered from all my sins and miseries; the third, how I shall express my gratitude to…
Oh God and Father, You have promised your people that you are building a church that the gates of hell shall not overcome. You have promised that your Word will go out and shall not return to You void; that Your gospel will be preached to the ends of the earth, and then the end…
—- I love this scene from the first Middle Earth movie, The Fellowship of the Ring. In this short clip, Gandalf is telling Bilbo that he needs to leave the one ring behind (to later be taken up by his nephew, Frodo). The lure of the ring - Tolkein’s imagery for sin - is too much…
In the opening line to his poem Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus, Jefferson Bethke says this: “What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion?” I’m not trying to review a two-year-old video and I’m not trying to take a stab at Mr. Bethke, but his comment and poem articulate a sentiment…