We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Our public assemblies were then beautiful; the congregation was alive in God’s service, everyone earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to drink in the words of the minister as they came from his mouth; the assembly in general were, from time to time, in tears while the Word was preached; some weeping with sorrow and distress, others with joy and love, others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighbors.
Jonathan Edwards

In this light, we see the problem of pleasure. Manifestly, as sinners against an infinitely glorious God, we deserve an immediate and infinite, condign, irremediable punishment from His holy, powerful hands. Nothing that we have ever received, that anyone has ever received, in all this world, has even approximated an adequate punishment for the crimes we commit in any one moment. How, therefore, do we continue to live? Why are we not plunged into eternal torment now, immediately?
John Gerstner

    • Month: February 2018

    Reading Room

    THE ENDLESS CONFLICT

    This entry is part 17 of 21 in the series Articles by REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D.D.

    “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and be- tween thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” GENESIS iii. 15. THE story of how the world began to…

    Posted on glen
    Reading Room

    THE MYSTERY OF MAN

    This entry is part 16 of 21 in the series Articles by REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D.D.

    ” For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man that is in him ? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” I CORINTHIANS ii. n. THIS has…

    Posted on glen
    Posts

    Which is the Right Way?

    Genesis 3:5-6 says “For God knows that in the day you eat from it [the tree] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” What’s so bad about that? Well, some of you may…

    Posted on glen
    Reading Room

    TRUTH PASSES THROUGH FAITH INTO POWER

    This entry is part 15 of 21 in the series Articles by REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D.D.

    ” Not being mixed with faith.” HEBREWS iv. 2. THERE is always a pathetic interest, made up of sadness and hope together, in the sight of any good thing which fails of power and of its fullest life, be- cause…

    Posted on glen
    Reading Room

    AVERAGE AND ABSOLUTE VIRTUE

    This entry is part 14 of 21 in the series Articles by REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D.D.

    “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth : But I say unto you, Resist not evil.” MATTHEW v. 38 (R. V.). IT is not of the special injunction…

    Posted on glen