Underground Exiles

That’s me to the left, and I thought I’d bring y’all up to date on the latest reading material that I’m perusing.

I was told a good number of years ago by the late, great Rev. Leon Nicholson to feed myself a steady diet of dead men’s brains.  What my wonderful, now deceased pastor was trying to impart to me was really quite simple: if a book has lasted for over 200 years, it stands to reason that it has something to say worth reading.

This advice from my pastor lead to me trying to read as much as I could from dead thinkers.  My first great love was with the works of Charles Spurgeon.  I found his sermons to be phenomenal, and when I was 13, Pastor Leon gave me a copy of Spurgeon’s Lectures To My Students.  I don’t think I actually read it all until I was 23.

Then…oh, then I discovered the Puritans.  The Puritans were men that thought deeply, loved Christ greatly, and suffered well.  All of which are goals of my own.

So right now I’m reading:

• An Humble Attempt To Promote Explicit Agreement And Visible Union Of God’s People In Extraordinary Prayer For the Revival of Religion And The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom On Earth, by Jonathan Edwards
• The Mortification of Sin, by John Owen

as well as

• The Doctrine of Repentance, by Thomas Watson.

So, I’m hoping to blog my way through at least one, if not two, of these books.  I rarely write anything about my personal life, so maybe this will give you a bit of a window into my head.

FOXNews.com - Priest’s ‘Jesus Wasn’t God’ Book on Sale — in Church - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News.

Here’s more warmed-over theological liberalism, this time from an Australian catholic priest who happens to sound just like an ECUSA minister. I love the title of his book. “God Is Big. Real Big.” Rev. Dresser, “you are wrong. Very wrong.”

Just another example of a shepherd who has embraced heresy, endangered his flock, and disqualified himself from the office of overseer.

WHEN GOD GRIEVES… | Southern Baptist Blogs - SBC Voices.

I try to keep up with the SBC Voices blog on my feedreader, and this post was like a kick in the gut.

Well written, and very timely, at least for me anyway.  Go by and give it a read, and may you take to heart what it has to say.

Happy reading!

The Prophet Zechariah

This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come, and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the LORD and seek the LORD Almighty. I myself am going.’  And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD Almighty and to entreat him.” –Zechariah 8.20-22

In the book I’m reading by Jonathan Edwards, he takes his text from Zechariah 8.20-22, which he interprets as a prophecy of a future glorious advancement of God’s Church.  From what I’ve gathered so far, Edwards’ eschatology is decidedly postmillenial, which was fairly common for his era.

In his exegesis of the text, Edwards sees an account of how this future glorious advancement of God’s Church is to come about; he sees this happening as people gather in from different towns and countries and taking up a joint resolution and coming into visible agreement that they will seek God by united and extraordinary prayer, that he would manifest Himself to His Church and grant them the fruits of His presence.

Read more…

Thanks to a new follower on Twitter, I’ve discovered an interesting new blog.  I’d love to push as much of my traffic there way as I can, so click the link!

Sexual abuse is a huge issue that the church seems to refuse to face; it’s horrifying when you consider that something like 33% of the women in your average church have experienced some sort of sexual abuse.

I hope for anyone reading this that’s been abused will read the articles, and find peace and healing in Jesus…