Last will and testament of Jonathan Edwards

Some days I feel so ill, that death no longer seems that distant, far off, remote thing that most of us still believe in our hearts as far as it being something we imagine happening, is a long way off. Some days I feel in the valley of death in a very real [...]

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Shameful line of the Week

In one of these real life counselling TV programmes.  To a young woman who had a baby with a boy/man before splitting up with him. the host of the show asks her, “If you don’t want him back,  or to split him and his new girl-friend up, why did you sleep with him 3 weeks [...]

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A Father’s wise counsel

Excerpt from a letter from the hand of Johathan Edwards to his daughter Esther, after she had married and  left home and lived a long way away from her parents and after she had some life threatening illness and remained in a very weakned state after it.
Labour while you live, to serve God and do [...]

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Practicing the Art of Patience

Waiting for the rain to stop!

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The Lord’s day, a day of bodily rest and spiritual labour

When one sees how many of the devastating disasters that take place in the world, occur on the Lord’s Day, it’s not hard to see that God judges the nations on our lack of keeping His day holy and profaning and desecrating it. Shops are now open on Sunday’s as well as any other day. [...]

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Self-examination the difference between life and death

I often write on my blog on the need for us to self-examine ourselves. As this is a doctrine that has become sorely neglected in more recent times. Even in a Reformed Church, it may not be that unusual in our days, before the Ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, to not see people examining [...]

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On swearing or oaths

I recently found myself doing other than the Biblical command of not taking oaths in the ways mentioned below a few weeks ago. I was desperate to be taken seriously at the time, and for the person I was talking to, to know I would never be anything but truthful about whatever the issue was.  [...]

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Poppy’s great adventure

You would think a cat who has been too unwell the past few weeks to go further than the back yard, when she sudddenly finds herself feeling better than for a long time, no syptoms of diabetes, no getting her insulin shots, no constantly throwing up like she has done for months now, when asking [...]

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One Thing neccessary

If like me, you have a distinct bent towards procrastination you will recognize the relevance of this quote by Baxter.  Do not be like me, who only delighted in spending the time in the ways below, when strapped to a sick-bed for however long I may have left. Redeeming the time has become very important [...]

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What excommunication meant for the Puritans

Excommunication meant a very different thing in the times of the Puritans. And yet they suffered and often died for their beleifs, and didn’t compromise their beliefs even so. You don’t see this happen often today.
In those days, excommunication meant than spiritual deprivation. It was meant that he who was subjected to that penalty [...]

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