Our Safety is in the Deep!

There are few dangers threatening the religious future more serious than the slow shallowing of the religious mind....Our safety is in the deep. The lazy cry for simplicity is a great danger. It indicates a frame of mind which is only appalled at the great things of God, and a senility of faith which fears that which is high. Men complain that they...cannot rise to such matters. That may mean that the matters of the world absorb all the energies of the great side of the soul, that Divine things are no more than a comfort (P.T. Forsyth).

The Holy Spirit and the New Creation

How many believers today recognize that the present work of the Spirit within the church and in their lives is of one piece with God's great work of restoring the entire creation, begun in sending the Son 'in the fullness of time' (Gal 4:4) and to be consummated at his return (Richard Gaffin, "Life Giving Spirit," p. 585).

The Word of God

I'm very excited to introduce our new blog for First Baptist Church of Fisherville. I think a beneficial way to begin is by reflecting on the Word of God. I just completed reading John Frame's new book The Doctrine of the Word of God and he lays out what the Scripture says about it's own attributes. They include righteousness (Ps 119:7), faithfulness (119:86), wonderfulness (Ps 119:129), uprightness (119:137), purity (119:40), truth (119:142; John 17:17), eternality (Ps 119:89, 160), omnipotence (Gen 18:14; Isa 55:11; Luke 1:37), perfection (Ps 19:7ff.). These attributes are not merely the attributes of something in creation, such as human faithfulness, righteousness, or truth. Clearly, in context these passages are saying that the words of God are different from merely human words because they embody the unique qualities of God's own nature (p. 66-67). What a glorious, effective, powerful Word we have from God. Let's be faithful stewards of it.