9.15.2007
About Me
- Name: c.t.
Five solas, doctrines of grace, covenant of redemption (Covenant Theology is not the servant of infant baptism), Traditional Text, King James Version only; doing the two great commandments of Christ at the practical level (i.e. actually doing them); and recovering by degree the full image of God. This is the foundation I stand on and build upon.
Links:
"We basically walk, wherever we walk, in a dark medium of the distorted and twisted law of God as enforced by fallen man and fallen angels. (Faith in Jesus and His work on the cross frees us and saves us.)" - Here
ESOTERIC POSTS ON THE LAW AND ON RACE - Here
- Concise definition of truth
- Doctrine is the armor of God
- The Third Kingdom by Louis Berkhof
- WWJD - What Would Jesus Do?
- A rule for living in end times
- Real Category Mistakes
- Bavinck on the republication of the Covenant of Works on Sinai
- Angelic movers...
- Guillaume Farel said it; but not shocking to me
- Paradigm enhancing Intrusion Ethics article by Meredith Kline
- Why heaven isn't boring
- Watchfulness
- Short note on visionary seeing
- Only the oceanic Word of God can cure shallowness
- An approach to philosophy for smart, common-sense, Christian oriented people
- Street level definition of Existentialism
- What is the center-of-gravity of the Christian experience?
- Ponder, theologians of no-effort sanctification... (Homer understood the relation between individual effort and God's will)
- The signature of God's remnant
- Three classes of people
- The plain path and war
- Framing the truth - the Four States of Man
- Studying war for the three-front battle
- Ideas have consequences - do you buy that?
- Nine great divides of the Christian faith, which is reality
- Warning
- The visible church is...apostate
- Reading the Word of God 7 times complete as a central practice of the faith
- An esoteric bullet point on Covenant Theology
- 10 bullet points on Covenant Theology
- Seeing God
- Seeing God 2
- 9 Distinctives of the Puritans
- General response to a comment regarding spiritual warfare
- Look at this amazing chapter on spiritual warfare and worldview from David Naugle's Worldview: The History of a Concept
- Standing Between Egypt and the Promised Land
- Finally, on the republication of the Covenant of Works at Sinai; vindication in a published source
- What Should Be Taught in Seminaries
- School vs. school
- The walking of the soul
- Three Mountains in the Bible
- You Don't Acquiesce
- What Separates Real Christians
- American Exceptionalism
- Peace, Love, and Genocide
- We're Getting Closer
- Devil-Run Hierarchies
- I know what this person is talking about
- The opposite of faith
- Two long-standing questions answered (including the difficult subject of race in God's creation)
- If you read the entire excerpt you'll see A. W. Pink's assessment of churches and a Christian's connection with them
- Christians exposed
- Two hard facts
- Screed of a withered old street sweeper
- What I would say to the street sweeper
- Two real signs of the end
- The practice of the faith (conscious labor and intentional suffering)
- Asserting dominion over the entire planet
- How much worse?
- Fear of death (a personal vs. an impersonal universe)
- The 5 Principles of Finding Truth
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- The Christian Library
"I have never won an inch of the way to heaven without fighting for it." - C. H. Spurgeon
"I believe every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled." - C. H. Spurgeon
--> 8th COMPLETE BIBLE READING (in progress, Feb/12/2018)Index:
ESSENTIAL I ~ II ~ III ~ IV ~ V ~ VI ~ VII ~ VIII ~ IX ~ X ~ XI ~ XII ~ XIII ~ XIV ~ XV ~ XVI ~ XVII ~ XVIII ~ XIX ~ XX ~ XXI ~ XXII ~ XXIII ~ XXIV ~ XXV ~ XXVI ~ XXVII ~ XXVIII ~ XXIX ~ XXX ~ XXXI ~ XXXII ~ XXXIII ~ XXXIV ~ XXXV ~ XXXVI ~ XXXVII ~ XXXVIII ~ XXXIX ~ XL ~ XLI ~ XLII ~ XLIII ~ XLIV ~ XLV ~ XLVI ~ XLVII ~ XLVIII ~ XLIX ~ L ~ LI ~ LII ~ LIII ~ LIV ~ LV ~ LVI ~ LVII ~ LVIII ~ LIX ~ LX ~ LXI ~ LXII ~ LXIII ~ LXIV ~ LXV ~ LXVI ~ LXVII ~ LXVIII ~ LXIX ~ LXX ~ LXXI ~ LXXII
STICK DRAWINGS & DIAGRAMS 1 (Note on 1) ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5
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--Fuse the Word of God into Memory, Will, and Understanding Prayer and Fasting -- (of --) Acute Warring of the Holy Spirit with the carnal spirit -- (storms struggled through; extending limits to glorify God by doing it when it's most difficult) |
SOME BOOKS READ COMPLETE
SINCE STARTING THIS BLOG:
(Short Essay On My Reading History)
The practical, experimental level of the faith (the Puritans called it experimental Calvinism) is for those ready to leave off laying the foundation over and over and begin building the house (see Calvin's commentary on Hebrews 6:1).
Psalms 27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path...
"God examineth with trials, the devil examineth with temptations, the world examineth with persecutions."
- Henry Smith
"The word of God . . . is the light to our paths, the key of the kingdom of heaven, our comfort in affliction, our shield and sword against Satan, the school of all wisdom, the glass wherein we behold God's face, the testimony of his favour, and the only food and nourishment of our souls."
- Geneva translators, 10 April 1560
"When the heart is cast indeed into the mould of the doctrine that the mind embraceth - when the evidence and necessity of the truth abides in us - when not the sense of the words only is in our heads, but the sense of the thing abides in our hearts - when we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for - then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men."
- John Owen
"Where the Puritans excelled was at bringing this high view of God
down to the level of ordinary life. One Puritan woman - the wife of a
soldier in Cromwell's army - defined Christianity as
'that universal habit of grace which is wrought in a soul by the
regenerating Spirit of God, whereby the whole creature is designed up
into the Divine will and love, and all its actions designed to the
obedience and glory of its Maker.'
By defining the Christian faith in this way, she was making a
connection between the doctrines of grace and daily experience."
- the Doctrines of Grace,
Boice/Ryken
"Previously, men had looked to the Church for all the trustworthy knowledge of God obtainable, and as well for all the communications of grace accessible. Calvin taught them that neither function has been committed to the Church, but God the Holy Spirit has retained both in His own hands and confers both knowledge of God and communion with God on whom He will."
- B. B. Warfield (from his essay Calvin as a Theologian)
A plain path puritan. That means the faith that is pure, bold, and practical. Five solas. Doctrines of Grace. Covenant of Redemption. Experimental Calvinism. No clericalism, ritualism, formalism, or moralism. The devil's nightmare.
CHOOSE YOUR BOOKS, CONQUER THEM, POSSESS THEM IN ESSENCE:
Holy Bible, AV1611
Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
On War - von Clausewitz
Wealth of Nations - Smith
Fourth Way - Ouspensky
Lives - Plutarch
History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
"The fearful are in the forlorn of those that march for hell; the violent and valiant are they which take heaven by force: cowards never won heaven. Say not that thou hast royal blood running in thy veins, and art begotten of God, except thou canst prove thy pedigree by this heroic spirit, to dare to be holy despite men and devils."
- William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour
"As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace; so there is not scarce anything more despised or scorned by many in the world than that any should profess that there hath been such a work of God upon themselves, or on any occasion declare aught of the way and manner whereby it was wrought... yea, the enmity of Cain against Abel was but a branch of this proud and perverse inclination."
- John Owen, A Discourse Concerning The Holy Spirit
The antithesis of vanity is: faith. The antithesis of worldly pride is: repentance. The antithesis of self-will is: descent-of-the-dove God's will.