Andrew Fuller Friday: Conversion and the Marriage Covenant
Conversion is a marriage wherein (with reverence be it spoken) Christ resigns up himself, with all he is and has, to us, and we resign ourselves, with all we are and have, to him. Such
Around the Horn (July 30)
7 Tips for Getting More out of Sunday Sermons "What if we opened our Bibles each Sunday expecting a taste like honey and a treasure like gold (Deut. 32:47; Ps. 19:10)? What would it look like
Andrew Fuller Friday: On Unrepentant Sin and Spiritual Declension
In the last paper, I considered the manner in which the duty of prayer is attended to as one considerable reason of spiritual declension; in this I shall propose to consideration another cause, as contributing
Around the Horn (July 16)
Love God with All Your Imagination In this post, Kathryn Butler notes, "Beyond offering mere childish entertainment, stories shape minds and hearts, linger in the imagination, and depict virtues that we can grasp, savor, and
Feel, But Do Not Perform: What the Psalms Teach Us About Emotion
Two errors compete for the Christian man's heart. The first is old and familiar: strength means suppression. Feel nothing, show nothing, bury it deep, and call the burial discipline. The Psalms bury that lie. David
The God of All Comfort: Despairing Yet Delivered
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Andrew Fuller Friday: On the Lack of Prayer and Spiritual Declension
In the last paper it was supposed that one cause to which declensions in religion might be imputed was a disregard to the word of God; in this I shall attempt to prove that another
Around the Horn (July 9)
When Helping Hurts in Pastoral Counseling In this post, Casey McCall notes, "In such a context, the role of pastoral counseling often gets confused with the role of the therapist. These two things, however, are
Faithful Exiles and Grateful Citizens (Jeremiah 29:4-7, 11)
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Andrew Fuller Friday: On Spiritual Declension and Neglect of Scripture
It is a matter of complaint too common, as well as too well founded, that the bulk of Christians in the present age are very deficient in spirituality, and come far short of the primitive