Things Well Said

These are “things well said” that I’ve recently found in the writings of others. Used here by permission, I hope you are blessed by them as much as I.

Learning Self-Discipline by John MacArthur

The Excitement and Anticipation of a Conference by Tim Challies

Should Christians Practice Yoga? by Dr. Albert Mohler

Podcast interview by Albert Mohler on “The Meaning of Yoga.”

Osborne, David Pastoral Wisdom (especially for younger ministers).

The Beauties of Christ Seen in the Beauties of Creation
by Jonathan Edwards

Now we have shown [No. 104], that the Son of God created the world for his very end, to communicate himself in an image of his own excellency. . . . the beauties of nature are really emanations, or shadows, of the excellencies of the Son of God.

So that when we are delighted with flowery meadows and gentle breezes of wind, we may consider that we only see the emanations of the sweet benevolence of Jesus Christ; when we behold the fragrant rose and lily, we see his love and purity. So the green trees and fields, and singing of birds, are the emanations of his infinite joy and benignity; the easiness and naturalness of trees and vines [are] shadows of his infinite beauty and loveliness; the crystal rivers and murmuring streams have the footsteps of his sweet grace and bounty. When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous bow, we behold the adumbrations of his glory and goodness; and the blue skies, of his mildness and gentleness. There are also many things wherein we may behold his awful majesty: in the sun in his strength, in comets, in thunder, in the towering thunder clouds, in ragged rocks and the brows of mountains. That beauteous light with which the world is filled in a clear day is a lively shadow of his spotless holiness and happiness, and delight in communicating himself.

And doubtless this is a reason that Christ is compared so often to those things and called by their names; as, the sun of righteousness, the morning star, the rose of Sharon and lily of the valleys, . . .

Edwards, J 1994. The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 13: The “Miscellanies,” a-500. Schafer, T (ed). New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 279.

The Art of Divine Meditation.
A scan of the entire text of Puritan Joseph Hall’s book,

The Art of Divine Meditation.
A scan of the entire text of Puritan Edmund Calamy’s book,

Bridge, William. “The Sweetness and Profitableness of Divine Meditation”
In The Works of the Rev. William Bridge, Vol. 3. M. A. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1845, 124-43.
Available from http://www.archive.org/details/worksofrevwillia03bridiala

Manton, Thomas. “Sermon 16” [on meditation]
In The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D. D., Vol 6. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1872, 136-46.
Available from http://www.archive.org/details/completeworksoft06mant

Shedd, William G. T. “Religious Meditation”
iIn Sermons to the Spiritual Man. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1884, 1-19.
Available from http://books.google.com/books?id=R1EXAAAAYAAJ&ots=FTTkkgQ7bq&dq=sermons%20to%20the%20spiritual%20man%20shedd&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false.

Listen to or download all the messages and panel discussion from the
Together for the Gospel conference for free at www.t4g.org.

David Jeremiah’s article about reading Proverbs, How to Gain Wisdom

Mark Dever’s brilliant series on “Where’d All These Calvinists Come From?”