Posted in Preaching, Thomas Chalmers on May 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Greetings, all. After a long hiatus, I’ve reposted the ‘Chalmers Audio’ tab above. I had done a good amount of audio recording of sermons, etc., by Chalmers. But I’ve ported over a number of them to our local church’s SermonAudio page, with more to follow. Enjoy!
Posted in Redemption Accomplished, The Gospel on May 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »
“Secondly, propitiation is not a turning of the wrath of God into love. The propitiation of the divine wrath, effected in the expiatory work of Christ, is the provision of God’s eternal and unchangeable love, so that through the propitiation of his own wrath that love may realize its purpose in a way that is consonant with and to the glory of the dictates of his holiness. It is one thing to say that the wrathful God is made loving. That would be entirely false. It is another thing to say the wrathful God is loving. That is profoundly true. But it is also true that the wrath by which he is wrathful is propitiated through the cross. This propitiation is the fruit of the divine love that provided it. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (I John 4:10). The propitiation is the ground upon which the divine love operates and the channel through which it flows in achieving its end.”
-John Murray, Redemption Accomplished & Applied
Posted in Care for the Youth, Catechesis, Church of Scotland, Family Religion, Parochial Strategy on May 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
“The Assembly, considering that the long-waited-for fruits of the Gospel, so mercifully planted and preserved in this land, and the reformation of ourselves and families, so solemnly vowed to God of late in our Covenant, cannot take effect except the knowledge and worship of God be caried from the pulpit to every family within each parish, hath, therefore, appointed that every minister, besides his paines on the Lord’s day, shall have weekly catechising of some part of the paroch, and not altogether cast over the examination of the people till a little before the communion. Also, that in every familie the worship of God be erected where it is not both morning and evening, and that the children and servants be catechised at home by the masters of the families, whereof account shall be taken by the minister and elders assisting him in the visitation of every family; and, lest they fail, that visitation of the severall kirks be seriously followed by every Presbyterie, for this end among others. The execution and successe whereof, being tried by the Synods, let it be represented to the next Generall Assembly.
-Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1639
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