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Our 17th c. Puritan woodworker friend, working on his own heart, from his personal journal: “So much as the word is rejected, Jesus Christ is rejected. So much as I reject the word I reject Jesus Christ. Luke 10:16. ‘He that despiseth you despiseth me, and he that despiseth me,

Morning coffee over Sedona and Meteor Crater as pilot-son’s passenger number one. Amazing pilot! Amazing region!

The father of two of David’s mighty men — Elnaam (אֶלְנָעַם) — has a theophoric name that translates: “God is delight” (1 Chronicles 11:46).

Martin Noth: “God is bliss”

Nate Wilson wrote the first two episodes of House of David — a phenomenal success of a season in my mind. And now I can’t stop imagining entire series about Samuel, Moses, Elijah, Jonah, Daniel … where would it end?! We need you Nate!

Prescient, from Shel Silverstein in 1981

Spurgeon: “It is easy to say that the Lord has been our Shepherd in the past. It may not be so easy to say that He is our Shepherd in the present and will be our Shepherd in the future. Yet we have nothing to do with the future except to follow in the path of humble trust in the

Webster (2016): “The governance of all theological topics by the confession of God’s aseity and inseity does not entail the separation of God and creatures, because God’s perfection is not self-enclosed, but the ground or cause of his creative, communicative, preserving, and

Sanders (2017): “Just as you wouldn’t ask what purpose God serves or what function he fulfills, it makes no sense to ask what the point of the Trinity is or what purpose the Trinity serves. The Trinity isn’t for anything beyond itself, because the Trinity is God. God is God in

Heinrich Bullinger’s legacy includes 12,000 letters (!!!), all scanned, digitized, keyed, and indexed -- 127 of them *from* Calvin. bullinger-digital.ch/index.html

A handfull of Zanchi sigs in there, too.

Amen

Can Thomistic Baptists hold steady for the long haul?

John MacArthur (1994): “I have a lot of letters that I keep because they’re just for one reason or another really unique. But my favorite letter that I have ever received came from a little old lady in the Midwest and she wrote and said, ‘I’ve been listening to you on the radio

300 years ago today, on July 24, 1725 (Old Calendar), John Newton was born. He didn’t like birthday parties. In a letter to his wife on *her* birthday, he called such celebrations “ill-timed” distractions from the brevity of life. Why revel, he asked, when another year of

Lots to write today, so I’m asking that no one do anything dumb for the next 8 hours.

Well that’s a wrap.

Timothy George considered leaving the Baptist tradition until he realized every tradition has struggles. Staying let him learn from others without losing the gift of his Baptist identity and heritage.

John Norton (1645): “The decree is that everlasting womb wherein is conceived whatsoever hath been, is, or shall be. Time and eviternity, that is, the duration of the creature upon earth and in heaven or hell, do but bring forth what is therein conceived, according as it is

Thomas Manton (1681): “The hen receiveth no benefit by the chickens, only her trouble of providing for them is increased, but they are her own brood, therefore she leadeth them up and down that they may find sustenance. So doth God to the creatures. We are the work of his hands,