Encouragement from Whitefield

Well, to anyone who still checks this poor excuse for a blog: kudos on your faithfulness! Your reward shall be a gem gleaned from the journals of George Whitefield, which I am reading for a paper on the Great Awakening.

I now began, like them [the early Methodists], to live by rule, and to pick up the very fragments of my time, that not a moment of it might be lost. Whether I ate or drank, or whatsoever I did, I endeavored to do all to the glory of God. Like them, having no weekly sacrament, although the Rubric required it, at our own college, I received every Sunday at Christ Church. I joined with them in keeping the stations by fasting Wednesdays and Fridays and left no means unused, which I thought would lead me nearer to Jesus Christ.

Left no means unused, which I thought would led me nearer to Jesus Christ. What a glorious thing to be able to say about one's own life! Friend do what you can today to draw nearer to the Lord Jesus Christ, redeem the time.

Bible Readers

Well it seems like all I have been posting for a while is just material from other websites, and today is another such day. I will endeavor to write some of my own material in the near future, but for now read this excerpt of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon that I found over at the Pyromaniacs.

If this be the Word of God, what will become of some of you who have not read it for the last month? "Month, sir! I have not read it for this year." Ay, there are some of you who have not read it at all. Most people treat the Bible very politely. They have a small pocket volume, neatly bound; they put a white pocket-handkerchief round it and carry it to their places of worship; when they get home, they lay it up in a drawer till next Sunday morning; then it comes out again for a little bit of a treat, and goes to chapel; that is all the poor Bible gets in the way of an airing. That is your style of entertaining this heavenly messenger. There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write "damnation" with your fingers. There are some of you who have not turned over your Bibles for a long, long while, and what think you? I tell you blunt words, but true words. What will God say at last? When you shall come before him, he shall say, "Did you read my Bible?" "No." "I wrote you a letter of mercy; did you read it?" "No." "Rebel! I have sent thee a letter inviting thee to me; didst thou ever read it?" "Lord, I never broke the seal; I kept it shut up." "Wretch!" says God, "then, thou deservest hell, I sent thee a loving epistle, and thou wouldst not even break the seal; what shall I do unto thee?"

Oh, let it not be so with you. Be Bible-readers; be Bible-searchers.

Worldly Wisdom

Does this make sense to anyone? Abortion is legal in all 50 US states, but feticide, the murder of an unborn baby due to a human act (for example, a kick or punch to the abdomen of a pregnant woman) is illegal in about 28 US states.