Timothy Mallon /Blog https://timothymallon.com/blog Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:59:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 5634596 Tim Hegg on love https://timothymallon.com/blog/tim-hegg-on-love/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/tim-hegg-on-love/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:36:14 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=508 Continue reading Tim Hegg on love]]> “What is more, if we are to understand our Master’s words, we must realize what He meant by using the word “love.” All too often in our modern era, “love” is understood as an emotion, and surely emotion played a part in Yeshua’s understanding of the concept of “love.” However, in the Scriptures, the concept of “love” is far more weighted on the side of “faithful actions” or “loyalty to one’s word and promises.” For instance, in the Shema (Deut 6:4f; 11:13f), the command to “love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” is immediately defined in terms of how one is to love: “These words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart…,” meaning that the commandments of God are to govern one’s actions and deeds. Keeping the commandments is therefore the manner in which one loves God. This is explicitly stated by Yeshua and His Apostles: If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. (John 14:15)” – Tim Hegg

Why We Keep Torah. Ten Persistent Questions. p.120

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/tim-hegg-on-love/feed/ 0 508 THERE IS NO ONE ELSE https://timothymallon.com/blog/there-is-no-one-else/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/there-is-no-one-else/#respond Tue, 31 May 2016 15:22:11 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=490 “Here is what Yahweh says, your Redeemer, he who formed you in the womb: ‘I am Yahweh, who makes all things, who stretched out the heavens all alone, who spread out the earth all by myself.'”

Isaiah 44:24

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/there-is-no-one-else/feed/ 0 490 Born in a manger, not a mansion https://timothymallon.com/blog/born-in-a-manger-not-a-mansion/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/born-in-a-manger-not-a-mansion/#respond Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:08:35 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=483 “Jesus was born in a manger not a mansion. Jesus rode a donkey not a chariot. Jesus was lifted onto a cross not a throne.” Vaughn Roberts

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/born-in-a-manger-not-a-mansion/feed/ 0 483 No other way to be wise https://timothymallon.com/blog/no-other-way-to-be-wise/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/no-other-way-to-be-wise/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:14:20 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=487 Continue reading No other way to be wise]]> “There is no other way of being truly wise than by fixing all our thoughts on Christ alone.” – John Calvin

“I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery — Christ. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him.” Colossians 2:2-3

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/no-other-way-to-be-wise/feed/ 0 487 With all the energy https://timothymallon.com/blog/with-all-the-energy/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/with-all-the-energy/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:13:04 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=485 “God deserves to be served with all the energy of which we are capable.” Charles Spurgeon

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/with-all-the-energy/feed/ 0 485 Intense loves https://timothymallon.com/blog/intense-loves/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/intense-loves/#respond Thu, 10 May 2012 16:53:41 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=477 One of my favorite biographies has been George Marsden’s biography of Jonathan Edwards. In it he said, “In the Edwardses’ world, the meaning of life was found in intense loves, including earthly loves.”

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/intense-loves/feed/ 0 477 What a resolution https://timothymallon.com/blog/what-a-resolution/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/what-a-resolution/#respond Fri, 27 May 2011 03:00:26 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=462 Continue reading What a resolution]]> “47. Resolved, to endeavor to my utmost to deny whatever is not most agreeable to a good, and universally sweet and benevolent, quiet, peaceable, contented, easy, compassionate, generous, humble, meek, modest, submissive, obliging, diligent and industrious, charitable, even, patient, moderate, forgiving, sincere temper; and to do at all times what such a temper would lead me to. Examine strictly every week, whether I have done so. Sabbath morning. May 5,1723.” – Jonathan Edwards

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/what-a-resolution/feed/ 0 462 Reviving the soul https://timothymallon.com/blog/reviving-the-soul/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/reviving-the-soul/#respond Tue, 03 May 2011 13:30:38 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/2011/05/03/reviving-the-soul/ Continue reading Reviving the soul]]> The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple;
the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes;
the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold,
even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey
and drippings of the honeycomb.
Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.
Who can discern his errors?
Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me!
Then I shall be blameless,
and innocent of great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/reviving-the-soul/feed/ 0 461 Where You Go For Help https://timothymallon.com/blog/where-you-go-for-help/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/where-you-go-for-help/#respond Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:06:17 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/?p=459 “You can tell whether or not a man or woman understands the Gospel by watching what they do when they sin. If they run from God they don’t understand, if they run to Him they get it. They get it.” – Matt Chandler

]]> https://timothymallon.com/blog/where-you-go-for-help/feed/ 0 459 Would you be free? Ask, beg, seek, cry out, knock. https://timothymallon.com/blog/would-you-be-free-ask-beg-seek-cry-out-knock/ https://timothymallon.com/blog/would-you-be-free-ask-beg-seek-cry-out-knock/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:34:38 +0000 https://timothymallon.com/blog/2011/02/27/would-you-be-free-ask-beg-seek-cry-out-knock/ Continue reading Would you be free? Ask, beg, seek, cry out, knock.]]> “Would you be freed from the bondage to corruption? Would you grow in grace in general and grow in grace in particular? If you would, your way is plain. Ask of God more faith. Beg of him morning, and noon and night, while you walk by the way, while you sit in the house, when you lie down and when you rise up; beg of him simply to impress divine things more deeply on your heart, to give you more and more of the substance of things hoped for and of the evidence of things not seen.”

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