Mike, I love the new focus on Spurgeon’s messages. It must help you balance your work load and the messages are so relevant. “ THIS should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people… Continue reading God is Sovereign man is not
Author: Ron Francis
Monthly Reader – December 2021
Decided I should add new things to this post at the top on it’s easy to tell. 12/31/21 Add these two great posts by Mike Ratliff to your New Year’s Eve readings. The Pelagian Captivity of the Church and Christian Character As we end the year 12/29/21 check out these insightful posts. The last two… Continue reading Monthly Reader – December 2021
Loving God
Mike makes a very good point, “In Homer’s time (eighth century BC) and onward, however, it took on the even more significant meaning of both spiritual and intellectual life, including man’s will and decision-making. These meanings flowed naturally into NT usage and provide us with striking applications.” Similarly Old John Gill started his commentary with… Continue reading Loving God
Dialogue about Doctrine in the Protestant Church
I will make this point, but I expect it will ruffle some feathers. It’s now several years gone by since I taught through the Westminster Confession and the Shorter Catechism point by point early Sunday morning. But we met at 7:30am. For years we debated what was right or out of place in the contemporary… Continue reading Dialogue about Doctrine in the Protestant Church
Rainbow Trout 