Walter Marshall’s Directions 4-9 from Gospel Mystery of Sanctification emphasize that in the pursuit of holiness the order is Gospel then godliness, not godliness then Gospel. Direction Four The means or instruments by which the Spirit of God accomplishes our…
I am a snowflake father. Those terms may be unfamiliar to many, if not most, people reading this. A “snowflake baby” is a child that was born because of embryo adoption. My wife and I completed our adoption through Snowflakes…
Robert Letham, Union with Christ: In Scripture, History, and Theology (P&R Publishing, 2011), xii + 164 pp. In this volume Robert Letham takes up the grandest of all salvation truths, the Christian’s union with Christ. After a short introduction, the…
New Cardinals for the next Conclave Opening the Pontifical Yearbook is not an easy task. This thick book of more than 2350 pages contains all sorts of information about who’s who in the Vatican and what happens there. Despite the…
New Cardinals for the next Conclave Opening the Pontifical Yearbook is not an easy task. This thick book of more than 2350 pages contains all sorts of information about who’s who in the Vatican and what happens there. Despite the…
A couple of things came to my attention over the weekend. The first is the new devotional from Thomas Nelson. It is difficult to see exactly what this represents. I am somewhat of the old school `Real men don’t…
A couple of things came to my attention over the weekend. The first is the new devotional from Thomas Nelson. It is difficult to see exactly what this represents. I am somewhat of the old school `Real men don’t…
We are repeatedly warned that the interweb, not least Google (other search engines are available), is changing the way we think, the way we remember. Tech gurus tell us that no longer do we remember information, we remember where to…
Matt and I found ourselves watching The Voice the other night. Unlike American Idol, everyone who gets invited to try out for The Voice actually has a really great voice. The celebrity judges have their backs turned during the audition,…
So far, as we have pointed to some highlights of Walter Marshall’s justly lauded book, “Gospel Mystery of Sanctification,” we have learned the following from him about growth in grace in the Christian life: 1. Those who have been saved…
