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 …
We begin our three-part study of pride and humility in Proverbs 3. As I noted last week, at the core of our three passages is the same verse that originates here in Proverbs 3:34 and is then cited by both James and Peter in the New Testament. Of course, this verse looks a bit different …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ip7eJAcgqR4wc9Amq9Pqe?si=-qOYm1wrQGiCF6F-q6mKcA As we noted last week, chapters 5 and 6 are tied together as in them Owen is defining for us what exactly mortification means. In the previous chapter he dismantled a few of the false notions and imitations of mortification, here he moves onto what it is positively. He lays the answer out into …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYoPX0gbeG8&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=8 He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as he reclined …
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