But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? …for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/225OK8G5eWCB7vXpizqsRH?si=RcxjSYX9RuqaA47BD4ZslA Having explained mortification and given principles and general rules to mortifying sin, Owen now begins in this chapter to give specific directions for killing sin. Chapter 9 is devoted entirely to the first direction, which is that we must consider a few dangerous symptoms of sin in order to see if it is particularly …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBxKbfpJrI&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=11 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a …
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In our study of what the Bible has to say about pride and humility (presented quite purposely on “pride month"), we arrive at the third of three interrelated texts. Proverbs 3:34, of course, is the core since it is cited by both James and Peter, and it defined the sharp dichotomy between the proud and …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RCJStiGHUoOCQZ1df7FAL?si=VEMEfu67T4GAbuPPgtDHkQ In this chapter, Owen discusses the second general rule for mortifying sin: “Without sincerity and diligence in the universality of obedience, there is no mortification of any one perplexing lust to be obtained” (81). In other words, if we are not striving to obey Christ with every aspect of our lives, we will never …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAea7JXdFgs&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=10 One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when …
Happy Father's Day! Other than following Christ and being the husband of my amazing wife, nothing in this life brings me more joy than being a father to my daughters. All fatherhood should properly be in imitation of God our Father, so if you’d like to further meditate upon the fatherhood of God, here are …
If our present day were personified into a single person, he would be excommunicated from the church for being quarrelsome and divisive. To be fair, while I know enough history to know that I’m not a historian, I also know enough history to know that the Preacher was right when he wrote 3000 years ago: …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4l6IaUGaLaPryJKKNQxblY?si=K45SPwW7RCuPZTYSPT8PzQ Moving on from Owen’s description of what mortification is and is not in the previous two chapters, he now proceeds into two “general rules and principles, without which no sin will be mortified” (69). Our present chapter will deal with the first, and chapter 8 will discuss the second. This first general principle is …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILb4oRRXlk&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=9 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the …
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