In Christ
Fayetteville, AR
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'Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.'
Grateful to God for Dr. Sailhamer (1946–2017) for pointing us to the text.
“At the name of Aslan each one of the children felt something jump in its inside.
Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror.
Peter felt suddenly brave and adventurous.
Susan felt as if some delicious smell or some delightful strain of music had just floated by her.
And Lucy got the feeling you have when you wake up in the morning and realize that it is the beginning of the holidays or the beginning of summer.”
–C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia Book 1), (New York: Macmillian, 1950), 55.
While reading John Newton's letters, I'm often struck by the content of his prayers for others. Notice below how he unpacks what it means for a soul to prosper in the Lord. (3 John 2) Glorious.
"I wish you health, peace, and prosperity; but, above all, that your souls may prosper:
-that you may still prefer the light of God’s countenance to your chief joy;
-that you may still delight yourselves in the Lord; be daily hungering and thirsting after Him, and daily receiving from His fulness, even grace for grace;
-that you may rejoice in His all-sufficiency, may taste His love in every dispensation;
-that every blessing of His common providence may come to you as a fruit and token of His covenant-love;
-that the frame of your spirits may be heaven-ward, your conduct exemplary, and your whole conversation may breathe the meekness, simplicity, and spirituality, which become the Gospel of Christ."
-John Newton, The Works of John Newton, Volume 6 (Carlisle, PA: @banneroftruth, 1988), 6: 46-48.
Father,
in Your mercy
dispel the darkness
of this night,
and let Your servant
sleep in peace,
that at the dawn
of a new day
I may wake
with joy in Your Name;
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
“A man that is a stranger to meditation is a stranger to himself.”
–Thomas Manton, The Works of Thomas Manton, Vol. 17 (Carlisle, PA: @banneroftruth, 1870/2020), 17: 271.
“They thrive best that meditate most; knowledge floateth, till by deliberate thoughts it be compressed upon the affections.”
–Thomas Manton, Works (@banneroftruth), 17: 272.
“Be always comforting of yourselves with the thoughts of your Adoption. Let this joy dispel the mists of every sorrow, and clear up your souls in the midst of all troubles and difficulties as you await heavenly glory, where you will live out your perfect adoption by forever communing with the Triune God. There you will dwell at the fountain, and swim forever in those bankless, and bottomless oceans of glory.”
-Samuel Willard, The Child’s Portion: Or the Unseen Glory of the Children of God (Boston: Samuel Green, 1684), 69-70.
TURRETIN:
"The righteousness of Christ alone imputed to us is the foundation and meritorious cause upon which our absolutary sentence rests, so that for no other reason does God bestow the pardon of sin and the right to life than on account of the most perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to us and apprehended by faith."
"For some, the doctrine of justification may be a doctrinal point of war in which fights rage and applause is won.
Yet, for many of us, the doctrine of justification is the warm solace of the soul and the graveyard of our guilt and shame."
–@RonniKurtz, Theology for Life: A Joy-Filled Introduction to Christian Doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2026), 163.
"Faith brings an empty hand, receives everything, and can give nothing in return."
–J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Mark (Carlisle, PA: @banneroftruth, 1859/2012), 88. Ryle is commenting on Mark 5:21-34.
