- We lost a paradise by sin,
and have gained a heaven by the cross.
Stephen Charnock (1628-80)
Until sin be bitter,
Christ will not be sweet.
Thomas Watson (1668)
The cross once seen
is death to every vice.
William Cowper (1835)
The tear of repentance is shed by the eye of faith, and faith, as it weeps, stands beneath the cross.
Horatius Bonar? (1880s)
Let them that will, repent, that Christ may do for them.
I believe what Christ hath done for me, that I may repent.
Thomas Boston (1720s)
A discovery of Christ
in the light of the Spirit,
wastes, weakens and withers
the body of sin.
Ebenezer Erskine (1730s)
If you will remember Christ's love, you will be lifted up from your crookedness, and made straight.
C.H. Spurgeon (1890)
Live in Christ, die in Christ, and then flesh need not fear death.
John Knox (1572) -
Click the logo for the Holy Trinity Church website. Top posts (last 24hrs)
Find stuff on TG
Archives
Follow me on twitter
- this is a podcast I think @sitcomgeek might want to listen to, if he hasn't already Learning to Love Art through t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 23 hours ago
- Could you please follow me so I can contact you via DM @MartynPercy 3 days ago
- The number of Marsh and Common Spotted Orchids has doubled year on year in #SandwellValley for three years since th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
Recent Comments
- Adam and Eve
- assurance
- BBC
- Beatitudes
- Burnout
- C.H. Spurgeon
- C.J. Mahaney
- Carson Pue
- Christ
- Christian ministry
- church leadership
- Church of England
- covenant of grace
- Covenant of works
- David Cameron
- death
- divorce
- Ebenezer Erskine
- Evangelism
- faith
- Fellowship of Word and Spirit
- From the vicarage
- Gospel and Law
- Grace
- Grace and Works
- hetrogenous church
- Holiness
- Holy Trinity
- Holy Trinity West Bromwich
- Homogenous church
- Horatius Bonar
- Inner city
- Inner City Ministry
- inner city mission
- Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
- Jesus
- John Piper
- justification
- law and gospel
- liberalism
- love
- Mark Driscoll
- marriage
- meditation
- ministry
- Ministry Burnout
- Ministry Trainee
- mission
- neonomianism
- Oak Hill College
- Paul Tripp
- Pornography
- Prayer
- Preaching
- Puritans
- reaching the unreached
- sanctification
- small groups
- Song of Songs
- Spurgeon
- substitutionary atonement
- Suffering
- The Cross
- the gospel
- Thomas Boston
- Thomas Watson
- Tim Chester
- Tim Keller
- tree of life
- vicarage
- vision
- vision statement
- West Bromwich
- William Still
- Wolverhampton
Blogs of people I know
Church planting
e-book libraries
e-books I've quoted
e-vids
Inner City Blogs
Not blogs
Other blogs I read
Creative Copyright License
-
Tag Archives: Calvin
Sabbatical Day 81: Project complete
I have finished (woop-woop) the three parts of my study guide, “Why should I go to church?” My aim is is to give people an understanding of God’s part and our part in the service of holy communion. The guide sets out the way … Continue reading
Posted in Extended Study Leave
Tagged ACNA, ACNA Catechism 2014, Calvin, Holy Communion
Leave a comment
Sabbatical Day 11: Catechisms
If a man walking along the road looked down and saw a shining disk and presumed it to be a piece of paper foil, say a bottle top or toffee wrapper, he would walk past it believing it to be … Continue reading
Posted in Extended Study Leave
Tagged ACNA Catechism 2014, BCP Catechism 1662, Calvin, Catechism, Heidelberg Catechism
Leave a comment
Sabbatical Day 10: Rich discovery
Sabbatical Day Nine and Ten – Notes I have travelled along a road of rich discovery, where great mind stretching and deep heart warming truths of the Lord and his work in this world combine with practical application for church … Continue reading
Posted in Extended Study Leave
Tagged BCP, Calvin, Catechism, Cranmer, Samuel Leuenberger
Leave a comment
Sabbatical Day Four: LTS, M1 and home
Little more to say than my header. Have left London Theological Seminary after three days of fellowship and study and I am missing the atmosphere but am glad to be home. Next week it will be another library in another … Continue reading
Posted in Extended Study Leave, Uncategorized
Tagged Calvin, Keith A. Matthison, Matthew Mason
Leave a comment
Sabbatical Day Three: LTS library, worship and lunch
Three days into sabbatical and I have enjoyed the rhythms of college life at LTS, with study, fellowship over coffee, midday worship, and a sermon on Ephesians 2 by Garry Williams followed by lunch and more study. My head hurts … Continue reading
Posted in Extended Study Leave
Tagged Calvin, Cranmer, John Stevens, Richard Wardman, Ronald S. Wallace, William B. Evans
Leave a comment
Marriage of illegal immigrants in the church.
When a vicar is handed out a 4-year jail sentence for conducting hundreds of sham marriages for illegal immigrants is raises questions for vicars like me in a multicultural inner city parish. I have now been in post for 19 … Continue reading
Posted in Inner City Ministry
Tagged Alex Brown, Calvin, Geneva, Inner city, marriage act, sham marriages, St Leonard's, Sussex vicar, vicar jailed
5 Comments
Platonic presuppositions and the covenant of works
The traditional reformed covenant of works treats the two trees in the midst of the garden as sacraments but unequally. Broadly speaking, Calvinist sacramental theology is applied to the prohibited tree but a Zwinglian understanding of sacraments is applied to … Continue reading
Posted in Grace in Eden
Tagged Calvin, Covenant of works, Genesis 2, Plato, sacraments, tree of life, Zwingli
Leave a comment
Transforming Grace 