For those well-acquainted with Jonathan Edwards and those who have not ready any of his works, the Essential Edwards collection is a must-read. These five books, written by Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney are excellent pieces devotional in nature and sure to challenge you in your affectionate pursuit of Christ and understanding of His truth. [...]
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July 27, 2010Universally His, Subject to His Will, Devoted to His Ends
January 3, 2010In his book, Religious Affections, Jonathan Edwards argues that the chief of all distinguishing signs of true and saving grace is Christian practice. In a list of supporting reasons why he believes this to be the case, he speaks of the practical exercise of holy affections in making a “full choice” of God. Starting off [...]
We ought to be ashamed we are no more affected with the gospel.
November 9, 2009One of the most sobering and soul-stirring quotes from the pen of Jonathan Edwards: If true religion lies much in the affections, hence we may learn what great cause we have to be ashamed and confounded before God, that we are no more affected with the great things of religion. God has given to mankind [...]
Jonathan Edwards on Continued Transformation and Renewal
August 7, 2009In his book Religious Affections, Jonathan Edwards argued that one way distinguish truly gracious affections from others is that they are attended with a change of nature. When the soul has a spiritual understanding of the excellency and glory of divine things, such understanding brings the supernatural effect of transformation, or a change of nature. [...]
Finney and the Regulative Principle
December 13, 2007We are down to the final hours of the “Ask Anything” deal, and my question on the Regulative Principle is hanging tough (NKOTB style). I appreciate the interest level and thousands of votes that have come in over the past week. Many of you know that I have been reading a lot of Finney this [...]
He was God-dominated.
October 21, 2007More from D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Jonathan Edwards, this time focusing on “the secret of this man.” “What then was the secret of this man? I have no hesitation in saying this: the spiritual always controlled the intellectual in him. I believe he must have had a great struggle with his towering intellect, and his [...]
Lloyd-Jones to Church Members: Read Jonathan Edwards.
October 19, 2007In his book, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote about “Jonathan Edwards and the Crucial Importance of Revival.” Needless to say, the church in the 21st century is in need of revival. The answer many churches are resorting to is the path of Charles Finney with protracted meetings (revival meetings) and [...]
The Glorious Work of Redemption
October 18, 2007In his Thoughts on the New England Revival: Vindicating the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards shares how the work of redemption is “the most glorious work of God whatseover.” Edwards writes, “It is the work of redemption (the great end of all other works of God, and of which the work of creation was but a [...]
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