I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • The Law in Romans

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 25, 2009

    The Holy Spirit creates this desire [for holiness], not only by showing us our sins, but also by showing us God's standard of holiness. He does this through the Scriptures. As we read and study the Scriptures or hear them taught, we are captivated by the moral beauty of God's... [Read More]
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  • B. B. Warfield on Revelation 20

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 18, 2009

    “We must guard, no doubt, against … doing violence to the text before us in the interests of Bible-harmony. But within due limits, surely, the order of investigation should be from the clearer to the more obscure. And it is to be feared that there has been much less tendency-interpretation... [Read More]
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  • Now we are 30…

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 15, 2009

    My wife turned thirty yesterday. This means we are, as a couple, “all grown up,” which is weird in itself because I still feel like a kid. I am very proud of her. We got married a year-and-a-half ago. A year later she gave birth to our firstborn, Ava Marie,... [Read More]
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  • John Piper on Familial Commitment

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 15, 2009

    John Piper writes today about the steadfast love and commitment from the fathers of Robert Lewis Stevenson and C. S. Lewis despite their estrangement and even unbelief (something Piper knows a lot about himself): [Read More]

  • Accuracy and Truth Are Not the Same

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 14, 2009

    In a blog post from 2007 entiled “Be a Kinder Calvinist”, Abraham Piper describes an argument with his wife in which pastoral intervention was required: [Read More]

  • Recovering from a "Spiritual Tempest"

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 13, 2009

    Jon Bloom on recovering from a “spiritual tempest”: I would say it took me a good year from the time I experienced an initial breakthrough until I really felt my spiritual equilibrium was more "normal." Changing metaphors, if the initial crisis was a massive earthquake, I felt aftershocks for a... [Read More]
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  • Ray Ortlund, Jr. on the Lord’s Day

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on July 13, 2009

    If we would stop treating Sunday as a second Saturday, one more day to run to Home Depot, one more day for the kids’ soccer games, if we would rediscover Sunday as The Lord’s Day, focusing on him for one day each week, what would be the immediate impact between... [Read More]
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