a Heart's Ramblings.

Isaiah 55: “Come, all you who are thirsty,      come to the waters; and you who have no money,      come, buy  and eat! Come, buy wine and milk      without money and without cost. 2  Why spend money on what is not bread,      and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,      and you will delight in the richest  of fare. 3  Give ear and come to me;      listen,  that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant  with you,      my faithful love  promised to David. 4  See, I have made him a witness  to the peoples,      a ruler and commander  of the peoples. 5  Surely you will summon nations  you know not,      and nations you do not know will come running to you, because of the  Lo...

Charles Spurgeon, on 2 Timothy 1:9... "Those whom the Saviour saved on the cross are in due time effectively called by the power of God the Holy Spirit to holiness. They leave their sins, and they endeavor to be like Christ. They choose holiness, not out of any compulsion, but from the influence of a new nature, which leads them to     rejoice in holiness       just as naturally    as before they delighted in sin. God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but He called them so that they might be holy, and holiness is the beauty produced by His workmanship in them. The Christlike qualities that we see in a believer are as much the work of God as the Atonement itself.  Thus the fullness of the grace of God is brought out very sweetly... The believer's privilege is a present salvation; the evidence that he is called to it is his holy life."

From Everyone's a Theologian : “Religion” or “theology”—what difference does it make?  ...There is a big difference between studying human apprehensions of religion and studying the nature and character of God Himself. The first is purely natural in its orientation. The second is supernatural, dealing with what lies above and beyond the things of this world... Everything we learn—economics, philosophy, biology, mathematics—has to be understood in light of the overarching reality of the character of God. That is why, in the Middle Ages, theology was called “the queen of the sciences” and philosophy “her handmaiden.” Today the queen has been deposed from her throne and, in many cases, driven into exile, and a supplanter now reigns. We have replaced theology with religion.  Existentialism is a philosophy of existence. It presupposes that there is no such thing as essential truth; rather, there is distinctive existence— not essence, but existence.  It is an anti-system t...