tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561Sun, 01 Sep 2024 02:47:16 +0000A.W. PinkC.H. SpurgeonTheology MattersRandomThe Narrow Way: The Journey of a BelieverGospel of the Lord Jesus ChristPaul WasherThe Sovereignty of GodBooksHumble OrthodoxyJohn MacArthurGospel reductionismJim McClartyNon-theologicalPoemsAlistair BeggLove and RelationshipsReformed TheologyThe Attributes of GodJohn PiperPrayerPuritanSovereign GraceA.W. TozerChristmasEmerging ChurchMark KielarMichael HortonMusicReformation and RevivalTestimonyThe Holiness of GodThe Solitariness of GodAnother gospelArminianismBiblical EvangelismChurch HistoryCultural "Christianity"HerescopeHymnJ.C. RyleJames WhiteJohn FlavelLeonard RavenhillLewis BaylyMartin-Lloyd JonesModern ChristianityMurderOswald ChambersPhil JohnsonThe Depravity of Manfirst post"Igniting passion for Truth a blog entry at a time."http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Michael Borja)Blogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-4558535027503491974Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:23:00 +00002008-07-04T17:23:11.491+08:00A.W. PinkThe Attributes of GodThe Solitariness of GodGod is in need of nothing. Yet why do we see Him otherwise? Why do people condescend to ideas that God wants "stuff" from us? Why do people retreat to their beliefs and traditions that say: "Love not freely given is simply rape!"---as if God needs our love. As if God needs our sinful tainted version of love. As if our concept of love would ever come in par with the eternal perfection of the love http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/07/god-is-in-need-of-nothing-yet-why-do-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-8713034783025047683Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +00002008-07-03T15:02:52.924+08:00Theology Mattersast Sunday, in our Bible study group meeting, among two other very, very important things, there is one other concept that I have repeatedly pushed forward over and over to my friends' minds, to take the Bible seriously for what it says.How difficult is that?Sadly, for most, it is a very difficult thing to accomplish.We go around church meetings and prayer meetings. People are going through http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/07/can-we-please-take-bible-seriously.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-8857223107979743118Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +00002008-07-03T15:06:22.175+08:00A.W. PinkThe Attributes of GodThe Solitariness of GodA.W. Pink: The Solitariness of God - [eBook]The title of this article is perhaps not sufficiently explicit to indicate its theme. This is partly due to the fact that so few today are accustomed to meditate upon the personal perfections of God. Comparatively few of those who occasionally read the Bible are aware of the awe-inspiring and worship-provoking grandeur of the divine character. That God http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/07/godis-assumed-by-many-rather-than-known.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-5322007200788657907Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:14:00 +00002008-07-01T23:14:39.078+08:00C.H. SpurgeonTheology MattersC.H. Spurgeon: HTCertainly, the benefit of reading must come to the soul by the way of the understanding. When the high priest went into the holy place he always lit the golden candlestick before he kindled the incense upon the brazen altar, as if to show that the mind must have illumination before the affections can properly rise towards their divine object. There must be knowledge of God beforehttp://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/07/there-must-be-knowledge-of-god-before.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-3319294220178659744Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:36:00 +00002008-06-30T23:11:30.717+08:00HerescopeThis article from Oldtruth.com posted last Friday really struck me. It argues a very pressing and alarming issue. An issue that I think must be given much attention by the evangelical world today.Chad VanRens@OldTruth.com: HTLORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Christian http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/unity-with-rome-means-submission-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-3633127338017049353Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:31:00 +00002008-06-28T12:31:20.250+08:00A.W. PinkGospel of the Lord Jesus ChristSovereign GraceThe Attributes of GodA.W. Pink: eBookThe Gospel addresses men as guilty, condemned, perishing criminals. It declares that the most chaste moralist is in the same terrible plight as is the most voluptuous profligate; and the zealous professor, with all his religious performances, is no better off than the most profane infidel. The Gospel contemplates every person as a fallen, polluted, hell-deserving and helpless http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/unworthiness-and-unlikeness-ofyou.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-6811225408699440874Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:01:00 +00002008-06-27T11:04:36.982+08:00C.H. SpurgeonGospel of the Lord Jesus ChristSovereign GraceC.H. Spurgeon"All that the Father gives me shall come to me." - John 6:37 This declaration involves the doctrine of election--there are some whom the Father gave to Christ. It involves the doctrine of effectual calling--these who are given must and shall come; however stoutly they may set themselves against it, yet they shall be brought out of darkness into God's marvelous light. It teaches us http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/subdued-by-sovereign-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-5652540175297692703Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:07:00 +00002008-06-27T23:23:26.608+08:00Gospel of the Lord Jesus ChristSovereign Gracehere is a Person that I consider myself much indebted to over the years and over my life. I just could not understand why He chose to come to me and reveal things to me.The majority of my Christian life was all about trivialities of how to live right, how to live this way, how to be this, how to do that, all the while being just another guy with the church in his pocket and can take it out http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-best-prayer-had-enough-sin-in-it-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-1253199244168903014Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:57:00 +00002008-06-23T23:59:12.271+08:00RandomHere's a quick update from my blog.JM Vergara: HTup, I have been gone for two weeks. As much as I don't want to startle everyone with a sudden blogpost with the majority of the content being random rants about what happened in my two week disappearance from the blogosphere, I think I don't have a choice but to spill the beans. (No. Don't worry. My life was not in danger in the time spent.)Okay. http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/hey-kids-guess-what-i-alived.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-2553752363029597922Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:59:00 +00002008-06-10T13:05:12.812+08:00C.H. SpurgeonTheology MattersC.H. Spurgeon: HT"Doctrines!" says one, "we are tired of doctrines.""For forms and creeds let graceless bigots fight,He can't be wrong whose life is in the right."The opinion is current that to be fluent and original is the main thing in preaching, and provided a man is a clever orator it is a proper thing to hear him.The Lord will wither with the breath of his nostrils that cleverness in any manhttp://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-are-tired-of-doctrines.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-1735409322693444443Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:38:00 +00002008-06-08T22:18:55.880+08:00A.W. PinkThe Attributes of GodTheology MattersA.W. Pink: eBook"Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee" (Job 22:21). "Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might, let not the rich glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth, and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord" (Jer 9:23,24). A spiritual and saving http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/unknown-god-can-neither-be-trusted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-256545086852776297Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:06:00 +00002008-06-06T15:29:14.410+08:00Humble OrthodoxyPhil JohnsonTheology MattersWell, I was working on an article last Monday... but then some stuff came up. I don't know the exact reason but, I just lost my writing momentum in the middle of writing that article. So for now, (again) I'll leave you with a perceptive article from Phil Johnson's old blog Pyromaniac.i.e. Humble Orthodoxy on WorshipPhil Johnson: "Karaoke Worship"I once remarked that if the trends in "contemporaryhttp://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/worship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-8544721835463491206Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:27:00 +00002008-06-05T18:27:02.413+08:00A.W. PinkBooksGospel of the Lord Jesus ChristThe Sovereignty of GodI can't seem to understand anymore why the Church fails to see what it means when we say, "Jesus saves." For some reason, for the sake of assurance of really having "received" God's saving Grace, we bid people to do something, where that "something" differs from congregation to congregation. In some places it is Baptism. In some, by coming forward and praying the "sinner's prayer." Is it because http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/jesus-saves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-7955795351329602615Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:07:00 +00002008-06-05T00:51:04.807+08:00BooksJohn MacArthurJohn MacArthurJesus set the standard as total self-denial. In Luke 14:26, a great multitude was following Him and He turned and spoke to them: "If anyone comes to Me"---meaning those who wanted to be His true followers---"and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." Self-hate? What a powerful truth! This http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/true-gospel-of-scripture.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-4627293345385766179Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:04:00 +00002008-06-03T17:32:42.128+08:00BooksJohn MacArthurJohn MacArthurWhen Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation in 1517 by posting his Ninety-five Theses on the door at Wittenberg, he affirmed in the fourth thesis that salvation required self-hate. He wrote that "self-hate remains right up to entrance into the kingdom of heaven." The original Greek word for "deny" means "to refuse to associate with." The thought is that if you want to be http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/hard-words-of-jesus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-8604188938331227587Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:28:00 +00002008-06-03T18:04:01.086+08:00BooksJohn MacArthurJohn MacArthurIs the message of Christianity self-fulfillment, or is it self-denial? It can't be both. If it's just a matter of opinion, I'll do my thing and you do yours, and we'll both cruise contentedly along in separate directions. But Christianity, the genuine gospel of Jesus Christ, is not a matter of opinion. It is a matter of truth. What you want, or I want, or anybody else wants, makes http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/06/you-do-your-thing-i-do-mine-theology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-5481783845947779209Fri, 30 May 2008 04:51:00 +00002008-05-30T12:54:28.330+08:00ArminianismRandomReformed TheologyThis morning Lane Chaplin posted an interesting list on his blog. I found it quite amusing how Arminian misconceptions of Calvinism can be this numerous, and somewhat really humorous.Lane:"Last week sometime, an Arminian decided to "have a little fun" and make a "dictionary for Calvinists." Paul Mantana of the amazing Tribalogue team decided to make one for Arminians since it was "just in good http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/dictionary-of-arminian-terms.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-5615562663401648183Thu, 29 May 2008 12:30:00 +00002008-05-29T22:05:26.982+08:00Humble OrthodoxyThere's a lot been going on for me lately. God is pruning me constantly of my "unChristliness." If there's one thing I can say about it, it is in no way pretty. Not pretty, but worth it. It is worth every drip of Blood shed by the Redeemer. Having said that, I am presently in no condition to write an article, hopefully I will be back next Monday, but for now, I'll leave you guys with Frank Turk'shttp://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/unhumble-and-ungracious-spiritualmoral.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-4097247407063500233Mon, 26 May 2008 18:14:00 +00002008-12-10T15:04:03.747+08:00RandomI looked at my old posts and I guess I got frustrated. They were slightly undoctrinal and they had many errors in grammar. I don't usually care when I write and I'm usually message-oriented. I didn't care much about parallelism or word count. Still, for some obsessive reason, I started deleting my older posts. Suddenly, I just realized that almost all my other older posts have the same problem inhttp://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/writing-its-all-in-heart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael Borja)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-8067181982974502166Sun, 25 May 2008 07:06:00 +00002008-05-25T15:32:06.125+08:00Gospel reductionismMichael HortonWhy is it that we go through our Christian lives trying to justify the thing that is not from ourselves, the saving Grace of God? People are lost and desperate, then these well-meaning little preachers, for the sake of this "easy salvation", let them just get off on a prayer. We "trust" in the promises of God but in the same time neglecting the costs of the Gospel itself. We have forgotten that http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/remember-when-you-asked-jesus-into-your.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-7830472154327872184Thu, 22 May 2008 15:54:00 +00002008-05-27T04:35:22.698+08:00Emerging ChurchGospel reductionismMichael HortonIn the words of Ingrid Schlueter of SliceOfLaodicea.com "This is what American evangelicalism has become." We think that the Emerging Church Movement is something that came about with out any relation whatsoever to the current evangelical movement. That somehow it is something that occurred because the world has infiltrated the church. But it must be realized that the ECM didn't come over night. http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/personal-jesus-thing-yeah-is-no-longer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-9163364019240006743Tue, 20 May 2008 16:59:00 +00002008-05-25T15:23:21.953+08:00RandomI guess its time to change. I'm making a new blog ^_^ I'm also changing my writing style. I'm making it more brief and making it more presentable as I can. Looking back at my old writings, I cannot help but feel a little awkward. In just three months give or take, I've really grown a lot and my "former orthodoxy" does not even compare to my present day, God-given thinking. I realized that some ofhttp://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/change-in-my-site-and-blogging-style.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Michael Borja)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-3170870263340487444Tue, 20 May 2008 08:13:00 +00002008-05-20T16:34:52.214+08:00James WhiteReformed TheologyI have to admit that I didn't find this post interesting when I first ran into it over at Philip's ReformedVoices. But seeing the number of responses to it and seeing it posted as well on Lane's Blog, I definitely had to reconsider. Very grateful I am that the Lord has led me to see and hear this message. Lord willing, I pray you be blessed too by it.It is a very outstanding closing message to a http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/maybe-we-need-to-stop-proclaiming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-5947016270103611924Mon, 19 May 2008 16:26:00 +00002008-05-20T00:55:17.543+08:00Humble Orthodoxylove worship. I love worshiping our God. There is so much that cannot be expressed in gratitude to our God. By having a glimpse of the depths of the mercies of the Lord Jesus Christ, the heights of the Holiness of our God, and the extents of His saving grace, I believe that a whole lifetime is not enough to make known to our God how grateful we are.Herein lies the irony. (Or is it a tragedy?)So Ihttp://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/known-is-useless-kung-fu-unless-it-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1703792727490683561.post-4012315248385745607Sat, 17 May 2008 15:10:00 +00002008-05-18T00:54:04.115+08:00Jim McClartyJohn PiperThe Sovereignty of GodTheology Matterss all of you know, numerous tragedies are occurring all over the world. The Cyclone in Myanmar --- a death toll of 78,000 people. The Earthquake in China --- a death toll of 8,700 at present. It is believed that the casualties in the recent earthquake could top 50,000 deaths. Now, what do we say in all that? What do we say about our God, about our faith? More than 128,000 people died. People are http://newdemonstration.blogspot.com/2008/05/god-wanted-to-but-he-could-not-stop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JM Vergara)0