I love J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. I particularly enjoy a term he coined – eucatastrophe (Gk. “eu” being the prefix meaning “good”). Lisa Coultras, in her book Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty writes about this term, “This event is the reversal of a seemingly inevitable catastrophe; it is, rather, the ‘good’ catastrophe. On the brink of …
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John Brown of Haddington was a Scottish minister and author from the 1700s. The following are 15 purposes of prayer and fellowship meetings as found in Joel Beeke’s most excellent booklet The Family at Church: Listening to Sermons and Attending Prayer Meetings:
Recently, I was watching Disney’s 1994 The Lion King, and though I’ve seen it countless times, it is only now that I am older that I have come to appreciate its message even more than the nostalgia it brings every time I see it. In the aftermath of Mufasa’s tragic betrayal and subsequent death, his …
Thomas Goodwin, a Puritan born in 1600 who took over the pulpit of Richard Sibbes, another Puritan commonly and affectionately known as “the heavenly Doctor,” penned a list of eight “remedies” for the Christian to employ in the daily battle against fruitlessness. They are every bit as relevant, practical, and applicable today as they were …
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“Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most of the good and advantage of mankind in general…” Resolution #1 (cont…) Handle Responsibility For The Good and Advantage of Mankind Most of the time, we think our Christian duties to only remain in the sphere of church ministry, fellowship and home life; …
“Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence.” Resolution #1 Think To Be Most to God’s Glory The pursuit of …
