Kevin DeYoung has a great analogy of flight attendants to preachers...passengers to the congregation.This is so true today. I think I'll reread my copy of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or see the movie.....But listen to Hebrews 2:1-4.Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since… Continue reading Fasten your seatbelts please
Category: John Bunyan
Someone else reading Bunyan
Justin TaylorAre You Sure You Want to Follow Me?If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.John Bunyan paraphrases:Following of me is not like following of some other masters. The wind sits always on my face and the foaming rage of the sea of this… Continue reading Someone else reading Bunyan
Changes in original intent….
I was thinking about this idea of how over time we seem to progress from religious conservatism to liberalism.This came up in our Westminster Confession of Faith Study....how in the early 20th Century Neo-Orthodoxy which was too save the church ended up laying the solid intellectual ground work that has led us to deny, reinterpret… Continue reading Changes in original intent….
True Boldness for Christ
Kevin DeYoung makes a great post of this text from Johnathan Edwards.This is like the comments I've heard on S Lewis Johnson's Gospel of John Sermon Chapters 15-16 and I've read in our John Bunyan study. It's easy to fall into the trap where our reformed righteousness goes overboard and takes us back into the… Continue reading True Boldness for Christ