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Reformation Month Devotionals: Thoughts from Richard Baxter

October 25, 2021

Our previous devotional featured 2 prayers from Martin Luther, today we continue our devotionals with English Puritan pastor Richard Baxter. He is best known for his work The Reformed Pastor and endured a life of persecution, including being sentenced to prison for no apparent reason. While Baxter did hold to some questionable views on the atonement, we still believe that his works remain influential & significant. We've highlighted 2 prayers from Baxter below, and hope these will help you re-orient yourself towards Christ this week :)

"We praise & glorify you our Lord and owner; for we and all things are your own. We praise and glorify you our king and ruler, for we are your subjects, and our perfect obedience is your due. Just are all your laws and judgment; true and sure is all your Word. We praise and glorify you, our great benefactor; in you we live, and move, and are; all that we are, or have, or can do, is wholly from you, the cause of all; and all is for you, for you are our end. Delightfully to love you is our greatest duty, and our only felicity, for you are love itself, and infinitely amiable." based on Isaiah 33: 2 - 6.

"Hold the eye of my soul upon my Savior; upon my humbled, crucified Savior; upon my ascended, glorified, interceding Savior! And let me never cease gazing on this glass of love, and hearing this heavenly messenger of your love, till your blessed cooperating Spirit of love has turned my heart into love itself, even into that love which is the living image of your love." based on 1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13.

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Reformation Month Devotionals - Luther

October 09, 2021

As Reformation Day draws closer, for our weekly devotionals we will be keeping the spotlight on Martin Luther. Luther of course needs no introduction, he's the driving force of the Protestant Reformation and strongly pushed the doctrine of justification by faith alone. He was of course also well known for his 95 Theses and his refusal to recant his teachings which were at odds with the Catholic Church. While we may not necessarily agree with everything he wrote and said, we owe in no small part, a lot to him.

John Wesley on Romans 12

October 09, 2021

As sojourners in a foreign land, it can be difficult to engage with hostile non-believers, or even self-professed believers who believe in some very "unique" teachings. Yet at the same time we are called to be humble and are reminded that the knowledge that we have is not by our own intellect or skill, but solely revealed to us by the Spirit.

Calvin on Revelation 4

October 09, 2021

Grant, Almighty God, that since we are by nature extremely prone to superstition, we may carefully consider what is the true and right way of serving you, such as you desire and approve, even that we offer ourselves spiritually to you, and seek no other altar but Christ

John Bradford on the Lord's Prayer

October 09, 2021

The below reflection emphasizes in particular the first 2 words "Our Father" in the Lords Prayer, and speaks to the closeness relational proximity that we now have as believers in Christ. We hope & pray that this reflection provides you both comfort & strength as believers today.

Melanchthon's Prayers on Luke

October 09, 2021

“O Son of God, we believe these things touching you, according as you command us to believe, but yet notwithstanding, this is a very small spark of faith. We therefore humbly ask you, grant that by your help the same may become stronger and greater, and as the shining sun spreads the beams of his light over the face of the earth, so do you, the Son of righteousness, guide us with your light."

Jane Austen on Romans 2

October 09, 2021

Most people are aware of Jane Austen through her writings such as Pride & Prejudice. For me personally I have never read her works or known much about her, which made it all the more surprising when I stumbled upon a prayer that she wrote based on Romans 2:5:

Jonathan Edwards on 2 Corinthians 13:11

October 09, 2021

Let nothing be done through strife or conceit. Indulge no revengeful spirit in any case; but watch and pray against it; and, by all means in your power, seek the prosperity of this town. And never think you behave yourselves as becomes Christians, but when you sincerely, sensibly, and fervently love all men, of whatever party or opinion, and whether friendly or unkind, just or injurious, to you or your friends, or to the cause and kingdom of Christ.

Spurgeon on Psalm 121 - Jehovah Our Great Helper

October 09, 2021

What we need is help, --help powerful, efficient, constant: we need a very present help in trouble. What a mercy that we have it in our God. Our hope is in Jehovah, for our help comes from him.

Our thoughts on "Resist Tyrants, Obey God"

October 09, 2021

We've previously released our design entitled "Resist Tyrants, Obey God". Since then we've received a sincere question from a brother in Christ who asked how this would reconcile with Romans 13, and was concerned that the design lacked context and could create misunderstanding and be unhelpful. Here's our response and thoughts on the issue.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 12: 9 - 10 (The Christian Paradox)

October 09, 2021

This is a Christian paradox: when we are weak in ourselves, then we are strong in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; when we see ourselves weak in ourselves, then we go out of ourselves to Christ, and are qualified to receive strength from him, and experience most of the supplies of divine strength and grace.

The Hound of Heaven

August 15, 2021

In our recent Bible study there was a passing comment about Spurgeon describing God as the “hound of heaven”, citing that God relentlessly pursued him until Spurgeon finally surrendered to him. After looking into this a bit more I found that Spurgeon wasn’t the first person to come up with this analogy! It was here that I found the poem “The Hound of Heaven” by English poet Francis Thompson. While I’m not sure if Spurgeon was aware of and influenced by this poem, it’s hard not to see the parallels!