Between “God created” and “the Spirit moved” there was a whole lot of empty nothingness that looked meaningless and pointless… and then God said “Let there be light” and “It was good.” So Christian, if things look dark it may be because God is about to shine the light. When God began to make the … Continue reading Darkness Didn’t Last Long
Category: Jonathan Edwards
Tech Thoughts
Last night and again this morning, I looked back over a paper I wrote on technology in 2021 and came across the quote below from a 21-year-old Jonathan Edwards that he wrote around summer 1726. And, earlier this week I watched a 28-year-old Steve Jobs give a lecture from 1983 that was amazingly so on … Continue reading Tech Thoughts
October 5: Jonathan Edwards’s Birth and Steve Jobs’s Passing
I have thought about this date, October 5, for a little while— our second set of twins are ready to be born any day now. There are two reasons I would be happy if it were today: my favorite theologian Jonathan Edwards was born, and though more somber than a birthday, Steve Jobs passed away. … Continue reading October 5: Jonathan Edwards’s Birth and Steve Jobs’s Passing
JE Pics for Matt
Jonathan Edwards imagesPictures taken at Yale University at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. November 3, 2017 and October 2, 2019 The true christian’s life a journal to heaven. “To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is the highest good of the reasonable creature… God is the ocean.” 1890 letter from Tryon Edwards … Continue reading JE Pics for Matt
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The Fellowship of Neighboring Pastors
Jonathan Edwards on the fact that ministers in an area should spend time together praying and discussing spiritual matters… It seems to me it would be becoming the circumstances of the present day, if ministers in a neighborhood would often meet together and spend days in fasting and fervent prayer among themselves, earnestly seeking for … Continue reading The Fellowship of Neighboring Pastors
Jonathan Edwards: There’s No Quick Fixes
Our context may be different today, but taking the slow and prayerful approach always seems best—and contrary to human nature. This is from page 500 in the WJE4… We can’t expect that after a long time of degeneracy and depravity in the state of things in the church, things should all come to rights at … Continue reading Jonathan Edwards: There’s No Quick Fixes
Jonathan Edwards and Revival in WJE4
Here’s a good section on revival from my recent Jonathan Edwards reading. The Devil likes to get us to swing from one extreme to the other. This is how JE ends part 4 of The Great Awakening. I don’t know but we shall be in danger by and by, after our eyes are fully opened … Continue reading Jonathan Edwards and Revival in WJE4
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