The soul of Europe
Just read an article in which Pope Francis was quoted as referring to Brussels as "the soul of Europe."
A comment under the article: "So Brussels is the 'soul of Europe'. Must be a coincidence that it is over 25% Muslim now."
5.14.2016
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.
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
--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)
- Vanity Fair - Thackeray
- Holy Bible, AV1611 (5th complete reading)
- Covenant Theology - Peter Goldman
- Westminster Confession of Faith, 1646
- Sum of Saving Knowledge
- Manual of Christian Doctrine - Berkhof
- God, Heaven and Har Magedon - Kline
- Calvin vs. Sadoleto
- The Pearl of Christian Comfort - Dathenus
- Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
- Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
- Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
- Holy Bible, AV1611 (6th complete reading)
- Silas Marner - George Eliot
- Biblical Theology - John Owen
- Master and Man - Tolstoy
- Novella - Goethe
- A Disgraceful Affair - Dostoevsky
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov
- The Death of Ivan Ilych - Tolstoy
- A Beginner's Guide to Liberty - Adam Smith Institute
- 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read - Benjamin Wiker
- Comrades! A History of World Communism - Robert Service
- The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis
- Holy Bible, AV1611 (7th complete reading)
- A Spiritual Appeal to Christ's Bride - Jodocus van Lodenstein
- Saved from What? - R. C. Sproul
- The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
- Empire - Niall Ferguson
- Human Nature in its Fourfold State - Thomas Boston
- America-Lite - David Galernter
- Sacred Bond - Brown and Keele
- Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology and Biblical Theology - Micah and Samuel Renihan (PDF)
- The Mystery of the Holy Spirit - R. C. Sproul
- Unseen Realities - R. C. Sproul
- The Consequences of Ideas - R. C. Sproul
- A Student's Guide to International Relations - Angelo Codevilla
- The Soul of Science - Nancy R. Pearcey and Charles B. Thaxton
- Satan and His Gospel - A. W. Pink
- God's Rivals - Gerald R. McDermott
- The Pope is the Antichrist - Ian Paisley
- Creation or Development? - Herman Bavinck
- The Devil - Leo Tolstoy
- Dupes - Paul Kengor
- The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
- The Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. 2 - John Bunyan
- Eschatology of the Psalter - Geerhardus Vos
- Finding Truth - Nancy Pearcey
- Christian Worldview: A Student's Guide - Philip Graham Ryken
- The Universe Next Door - James W. Sire
- God's Battalions - Rodney Stark
- The Divine Origin of the Bible - B. B. Warfield
- The ABCs of the Prophetic Scriptures - George H. Clement
- The Story of Rome (From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic) - Arthur Gilman
- Why You Think the Way You Do (The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home) - Glenn S. Sunshine
- Holy Bible, AV1611 (8th complete reading)
- 40 Great Short Stories - Various
- From the Shadows to the Savior: Christ in the Old Testament - Douglas van Dorn
- The Iliad - Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)
- Enchiridion - Epictetus
- Grimm's Fairy Tales
- The Odyssey - Homer (Butcher, Lang trans.)
- Supernatural - Michael Heiser
- What the Bible Says About the Doctrines of Grace - Nathan Pitchford
- The Legend of Parzival - Retold by Robin Cook
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon (Vol. 1 [of 3] Modern Library Edition)
- Cornelius van Til: The Man and the Myth - John W. Robbins
- Why Nazism was Socialism and Why Socialism is Totalitarian - George Reisman
- Holy Bible, AV1611 (9th complete reading)
- Christ the End of the Law - John Calvin
- #PrussiaGate - Will Zoll
- The Great Reset - Alex Jones
- The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
- Guidebook for Instruction in the Christian Religion - Herman Bavinck
- Ancient Rome: From Romulus to Justinian - Thomas R. Martin
- The Life of Franciscus Junius - Franciscus Junius
- Christ's Glorious Achievements - Charles Spurgeon
- The Baptist Catechism (1693)
- Waldensian Confession (1662)
- A Body of Divinity - Thomas Watson
- On the Christian Life - John Calvin
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.
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