“Regard, great God! my mournful prayer”
Samuel Medley Regard, great God! my mournful prayer; Make my poor trembling soul thy care; For…
My Personal Jesus
How often to we desire the wrong things and create a God that affirms the worst parts about us. If you look around, you will find a multitude of ideas about who God is. We are master sculptors when it comes to creating our own version of God, but any version of God that does not align with Scripture is an idol.
A Poke From The Past: Worship Belongs to the LORD
If Jesus is not God, then we are committing idolatry when we worship Christ because we would be worshipping the creation over the Creator.
Meditation of Heaven pt. 2
“The Meditation of Heaven” Isaac Watts My thoughts surmount these lower skies, And look within the…
Bitterness Makes You Brutish
Let’s not waste the shortest part of our eternity on being bitter, but rather live in light of our end. Once Asaph had been freed from his bitterness, he was determined to share the works of God. Brothers and sisters, put aside your bitterness because that person or thing is temporal. Do not grow brutish in your thinking, but meditate on the truth of God. Look forward to the end of the matter and tell of God’s great works until you get there. I promise you, bitterness is never worth it.
A Poke From The Past: The Correct Jesus
There are many different Jesus’s you can choose to worship, but the question is this: which Jesus is the correct Jesus to worship?
The Meditation of Heaven pt. 1
It never ceases to amaze me how just a few stanzas could be so jam-packed with the truth of the Scriptures. As the name of the hymn suggests, we are invited to peer into the absolute majesty of that faraway land called heaven, wherein sits our Hope and Redeemer at the right hand of his Father. How could we possibly exhaust all there is to write and say and think of that wonderful Subject of our faith and affections, especially in this scene that Isaac Watts presents to us? Fortunately, he spares us the frustration of that impossibility and instead picks a few (but definitely not least!) sweet truths from that tree of life, as it were—those reminders of the reality of heaven.
An Introduction to the Trinity
I cannot write about various heresies in church history or cults without first clearly defining the Trinity and the Deity of Christ. With this in mind, I, with the help of the church fathers, am going to give my most biblical and accurate definition of the Trinity. I will save the Deity of Christ for a different day.
Welcome to The Poking Stick
At the time of writing, The Poking Stick is launching in less than 24 hours. I…
Judge Not, You Swine!
Matthew 7:1 is a favorite verse among modern Christians and their respective opponents. The verse is often complimented with the pious statement “who am I to judge?” The words “Judge not” have solidified themselves as the rallying cry of passive Christians. On the other end of the spectrum, there are the curmudgeons on the back pew who love to look around and scowl. The unfortunate reality is that the malpractice of judgment (or the lack thereof) has tainted the church’s perspective on what biblical judgment really is.