Pride should not be celebrated. Shocking, I know. Although I am purposely choosing to study pride and its opposing virtue, humility, during what has been dubbed “pride month,” my aim is not to launch a polemic assault on the LGBT movement. Of course, no one should be surprised to find those who gladly rebel against …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gsFsWDzxQbAWRTO8YuisI?si=zqnp5V2nQ5WfYRVSbX3IzA Having addresses three big principles (that all Christians must mortify sin, that mortification is only accomplished by the Spirit, and of mortification’s usefulness), Owen now moves into his “principal intention,” which is to show how Christians should mortify our sin (53). In order to show this, he explains that the remainder of the book …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHEEfuO3rRg&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=7 And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. …
Then the angel of God who was going before the hose of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fHzCL7pe1Z8L0NYyaBTFd?si=LyInRj9QRyaVSLCE9gNGrw In this chapter, Owen discusses the third and final basic principle for mortifying sin, which “is that the life, vigour and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin” (47). Or as the summary at the top of the chapter calls it: “of the usefulness of mortification” (47). Of all …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Lq-43wcLU&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=6 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” And he said to them, …
Continue reading Of Prayer, Preaching, Leprosy, & the Messianic Secret | Mark 1:35-45
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. Exodus 13:21 ESV The newly freed Israelites fled quickly from their former masters, the Egyptians, …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0i2HLDl3V7XbTQzfKeUnSo?si=pKysoOp7T46baWErZAt3UA If the first two chapters have not yet convinced you of the great value of this book, this third chapter should soundly accomplish that task. The subject at hand is the second of the three big principles for mortifying sin that Owen began to explore in the previous chapter and will conclude in the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7lzSNbEb9M&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=5 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried …
Continue reading A New Teaching with Authority | Mark 1:21-34
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cfbnI9Zs2qvH0xBXSlRGJ?si=reW0nmSKT_aeqFYP8Ym6TQ Here in chapter 2, Owen addresses the first of three main principles made about our call to mortify our sin (the next two principles are the subjects of chapters 3 and 4). This first principle is that even the very best believers must still mortify “the indwelling power of sin” each and every day …
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