Here's a good list of some Bible reading plans with reasons to read and explinations of how to read through the Bible in a year. If you have questions or you're interested in acountability contact us HERE. BIBLE READING PLANS Add Comment "Before a healthy discussion on what people can and cannot do with free will, it needs to be analyzed and, hopefully, we can gain some insight into what free will really means..." Read the entire article "Labor that your minds may continually be prepared for such heavenly contemplations. If they are carnal and sensual, or filled with earthly things, a due sense of this love of Christ and its glory will not abide in them. Virtue and vice, in their highest degrees, are not more diametrically opposed and inconsistent in the same mind than are an habitual course of sensual, worldly thoughts and a due contemplation of the glory of the love of Christ. Yea, an earnestness of spirit, pregnant with a multitude of thoughts about the lawful occasions of life, is obstructive of all due communion with the Lord Jesus Christ herein. Few there are whose minds are prepared in a due manner for this duty. The actions and communications of most persons evidence the inward frame of their souls. They rove up and down in their thoughts, which are continually led by their affections into the corners of the earth. It is in vain to call such persons to contemplations of the glory of Christ in His love. A holy composure of mind, by virtue of spiritual principles, an inclination to seek after refreshment in heavenly things and to bathe the soul in the fountain of them, with constant apprehensions of the excellency of this divine glory, are required." John Owen The issue is this: What parts of the Bible are binding mandates for us, and what parts are not? Consider some examples. “Greet one another with a holy kiss”, the French do it, Arab believers do it, but by and large we do not. Are we therefore unbiblical? Jesus tells his disciples that they should wash one another‘s feet (John 13:14), yet most of us have never done so. Why do we “disobey”that plain injunction, yet obey his injunction regarding the Lord‘s Table (“This do, in remembrance of me”)? If we find reasons to be flexible about the holy kiss, how flexible may we be in other domains? May we replace the bread and wine at the Lord‘s Supper with yams and goat‘s milk if we are in a village church in Papua New Guinea? If not, why not? And what about the broader questions circulating among theonomists regarding the continuing legal force of law set down under the Mosaic covenant? Should we as a nation, on the assumption that God graciously grants widespread revival and reformation, pass laws to execute adulterers by stoning? If not, why not? Is the injunction for women to keep silent in the church absolute (1 Cor. 14:33–36)? If not, why not? Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be born again if he is to enter the kingdom; he tells the rich young man that he is to sell all that he has and give it to the poor. Why do we make the former demand absolute for all persons, and apparently fudge a little on the second? READ ARTICLE... | Pastors' BlogLord willing we'll be posting regularly. Watch for it and encourage us with your comments. If you have something you'd like us to post, e-mail it to us HERE ArchivesMay 2012 Categories |
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