False Christian teachings, trends….
This post contains the evening thoughts from C H Spurgeon’s commentary, Morning and Evening Thoughts, for April 1st. They are on a verse from Hosea: “It is time to seek the Lord.” — Hosea 10:12. They go well with the verse and commentary from Proverbs that I have planned for tomorrow.
In this post is an excerpt and a whole sermon by C H Spurgeon on James 4:14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. The 11-minute excerpt provides a taste of the rest of the sermon. It is valuable for all, as no one knows when his sojourn here will be at an end.
The purpose of this post is to provide an alternative to yoga for the Christian who wants to do stretching type exercises. If you viewed the last post about yoga with Doreen Virtue, then you learned that yoga poses are worship that mimics Hindu deities. It is therefore, spiritually dangerous to the Christian. The following 14-minute video is a short workout from AM-PM PraiseMoves video. The second video is a 2-minute Power Promises video about a portion of scripture by Lorette Willis; she apparently offers a daily read of some portion of scripture for meditation.
The following commentary on Psalm 63:3, by The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, speaks of the rewards of seeking God fervently. The commentary on the entire Psalm is pasted in for those who might want to read it. As encouragement to do so, check out the one sentence with which MacArthur’s commentary described 63:3: better than life. God’s covenant love is more valuable to David than life itself (cf. Php_1:21; Act_20:24). Those verses: Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Acts 20:24 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. The words from Expositor’s commentary are a wonderful read that fill out the understanding regarding those two verses.
This post contains 3 very brief video excerpts from Thomas Watson’s book The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken by Storm. Two excerpts are about the ‘world’ and one is about the ‘flesh.’ Before each video, a significant point from the video and the time is noted.
In the 3-minute video of this post, the words of Puritan Thomas Watson speak to those who let the pursuit of pleasure take them away from God, and the cost of such an error.
The Crook In The Lot is a book by Puritan Thomas Boston. In this podcast, Pastor Hines reads from Boston’s book and discusses it in terms of Christian afflictions. The three parts of the book stated: 1. Every crook in your lot is God’s making; 2. What God sees fit to mar in your lot, you will not be able to mend; 3, contemplation of the crook in your lot, as the work of God, is the proper means to help you walk rightly under it [highlight points were given for the initial 23 minutes of the podcast]
The following 2 minute 34 second video is a devotional by Winslow on loving Christ because of specific things He had accomplished for you. A few of Winslow’s thoughts from this very brief meditation / devotional: He gave you Himself: Robed in your nature; Laden with your curse; Oppressed with your sorrows; Wounded for your transgressions; Slain for your sins….
The 5-minute video of this post is on self-denial. It is defined by Wilhelmus A Brakel, who wrote a work titled, The Christian’s Reasonable Service. In his work, the part on self-denial consists of several parts, of which the following video reading is the first. The other sections are noted below the video; also, a link to the Kindle version of A Brakel’s 4-volume work at Amazon.
The following Meditation came from a 13-minute video which was the first of 450 on a playlist titled ‘Puritans.’ Pilgrim’s Progress is among those on the list. If you like the Puritans, then you are sure to find something to which you will want to listen. I excerpted a 1 minute 25 second meditation from the video. It talks about an old person with youthful struggles. The excerpt and the 13-minute video, with 7 other meditations by Puritan John Flavel are below.