Posts Tagged ‘ puritans ’

on Knowing and Doing

“To profess to know much is easy; but to bring your affections into subjection, to wrestle with lusts, to cross your wills and yourselves, upon every occasion, this is hard.” -John Preston (HT:immoderate)[ READ MORE ]

Book Review: Valley of Vision

By Derek Pick this up, pick this up, pick this up. I can’t recommend this book enough. For followers of Jesus Christ prayer is an absolute necessity. This is a book filled with the prayers of Puritan that loved to pour out there heart before God and show their commitment to Jesus Christ. Many of [ READ MORE ]

A Walk with Jonathan Edwards

By Mike Henderson I would like to invite you all to embark on a journey with me. We are at the beginning of a new year and like most of you; I have hope that through diligence will flesh themselves out in ways that will manifest God’s glory more clearly through me. So to the [ READ MORE ]

Help Me to Adore Thee by Lips and Life; Praying for Balance

By Russ Help me to adore thee by lips and life. The above line is taken from a puritan prayer. I found it to be a wonderful thing to pray. What makes this prayer so helpful is it asks God to do two things that we all need him to do inour lives. First, to [ READ MORE ]

Treat Your Trials Right, Seeking Comfort In God

By Matt Kellso In a previous post (Treat Your Trials Right), I discussed our need to treat as gifts the circumstances of life we would normally qualify as trials.  They are meant as a vessel of joy sent to us by God through His grace so that we can bring the Gospel to those around [ READ MORE ]

John Flavel on God’s Work on You in Regeneration

By Matt Kellso Last night I started to read “Keeping the Heart” by John Flavel. He was a Puritan who knew the depths of trials and knew what it meant to properly shepherd your heart. I mean not only did he write a book on it, that book was reprinted some 300+ years later. But [ READ MORE ]

PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES; Device #4 and its Remedies

Here is the fourth device and set of remedies from Thomas Brooks’ book, “PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES.” Device #4: By showing to the soul the best men’s sins and by hiding from the soul their virtues, their sorrows, and their repentance. Remedies: 1) the Spirit of God records not only the sins of the [ READ MORE ]

PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES; Device #3 and its Remedies

As promised here is the next device that Satan uses to fool the saints and it’s remedies from Thomas Brooks work, “PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES”: Device #3: By the extenuating and lessening of sin. Remedies: 1) sin which men account small brings God’s great wrath on men. 2) the giving way to a less [ READ MORE ]

PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES; Device #2 and its Remedies

I have so enjoyed and been effected by the book my wife and I are reading, PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES, I wanted to post the second device and its remedies. The second device, according to Thomas Brooks, that Satan uses to trick the elect into sinning is, ” By painting sin with virtue’s colors.” [ READ MORE ]

Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices; Device #1 and its Remedies.

My Wife and I are currently reading PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN’S DEVICES By Puritan Thomas Brooks.  Brooks is working off of “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us–for we are not ignorant of his devices.” (2 Corinthians 2:11).  He then goes on to point out a number devices or ways that Satan tries to [ READ MORE ]

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