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J.C. Ryle Warns Against Driving a Hard Bargain
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, First, this post signifies that I am back in the blogosphere. My last post was October 10, 2012, and it was sparse before that. Self-admittedly, that is...
View ArticleMore on Birthdays
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, A couple of years ago I posted some wisdom from John Calvin regarding birthdays. Now some more from J.C. Ryle’s “Holiness” (the chapter on “Assurance”): I...
View ArticleChrist Can Ever Maintain His Own Cause
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, When the global church is pressed on every side, from without and within, it is good to remember that the great Head of the Church, the Lord Jesus Christ,...
View ArticleLoving Jesus Christ
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, Here is another gem from J.C. Ryle’s Holiness, Chapter 15, “Do You Love Me?” (based on John 21:16). “…if you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see...
View ArticleThe Remedial System of the Gospel
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, I am almost finished re-reading J.C. Ryle’s “Holiness”, and I came across this gem in Chapter 18, titled “Unsearchable Riches”, regarding whether or not a...
View ArticleThorough Christianity
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, Okay, things are spiraling out of control… I am currently in various stages of reading “The Holy Bible” (God), “Holiness” (J.C. Ryle), “Knowing God” (J.I....
View ArticleA Warning About Fiction
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, Most of us have never critically examined the genre of fiction. We have simply been swimming in it for decades in its various forms. We know that there are...
View ArticleTake Care How You Spend Your Days
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, In J.C. Ryle’s book “Practical Religion,” in his chapter on happiness (Chapter 10), he calls a succession of witnesses who prove that pursuing happiness in...
View ArticleNot Want of Time, But Waste of Time
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, From Chapter 1 of J.C. Ryle’s “Old Paths,” regarding the danger of neglecting our Bibles: “You are in danger, because there is not a single reasonable excuse...
View ArticleUpcoming “Highway of Holiness” Conference
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, It is just five weeks until the upcoming National Center of Family-Integrated Churches “Highway of Holiness” conference, October 29-31 at Ridgecrest in...
View ArticleJ.C. Ryle’s Classic, “Holiness”
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, At this year’s annual national NCFIC conference, “The Highway of Holiness,” I had the great privilege of giving a message on J.C. Ryle’s classic book,...
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