Peter Stonecipher

The verdict is in. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is the PGA Champion.

Assembly Demographics Matter in the PCA - The RE/TE balance is improving...or returning to "normal." - by Brad Isbell

Don’t worry, Scottie Scheffler is going to be humbled soon. The dad ‘bed’ in the delivery room doesn’t care if you have 2 green jackets or have earned over $15 million in 4 months, it takes no prisoners.

"Where are the few who are conscious to the same extent...as the plain, average believer in those times was, so that for the whole NT wherever we open it, there blows upon us, as it were, a breeze fresh from the ocean of heaven?" - Geerhardus Vos, "The Christian's Hope"

"Where are the few nowadays (we may ask it including ourselves) who carry with them the consciousness of belonging to another world, of being heirs to an unbounded future?

"To us, to every believer individually, death and through death the eternal world is just as near as the second advent could have appeared to the Christians of the time of Peter and Paul.

"Christianity in a certain sense has grown old in us. We do not, as much as we ought to, have our hearts in eternity...

"Undoubtedly the early Christians, as we observe them in the NT and even later, had more of this youthful spirit of the faith than you and I and Christians of the present day can boast of.

if its great figures could gather around us and review the part we take in the making of the history of the present - whether they would be shamed or gladdened by our doings." - Geerhardus Vos, "Running the Race"

"Sometimes we are altogether too much concerned with what the present world will say about us - whether it will regard us as progressive, enlightened and liberal; while too seldom considering what would be the historic judgment passed upon us by the church of the former ages

Excited to dig into @mglodorts The Lord Bless You and Keep You. Just came in the mail!

"Knowledge of the being and ways of God is God's own gift, not the fruit of human creativity or searching." John Webster, The Culture of Theology

"The problem has often not been that theology has failed to keep pace with its wider intellectual environment but that it has kept pace with it all too well. Against that calibration, protest is in order." Igor J. Davidson introducing John Webster's The Culture of Theology

I find a lot to commend in Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks". Sobering and clarifying in many ways regarding how to think of our lifetimes and what activities to pursue. #fourthousandweeks

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Great post from @scottrswain reflecting on God's glory in Psalm 104. scottrswain.com/2021/09/10/clo…

(cont'd) you have a strong and clear impression of the promises of God upon your heart, and of your interest in those promises.

4. We hide ourselves. How do we do that? The storm is coming. Get an ark, just as Noah did when the flood was threatening his world...[In other words] Do not let your minds have any rest until, by some renewed act of faith,

John Owen on how the church might respond in a time of dark and difficult providence. From "Searching Our Hearts in Difficult Times". @BannerofTruth