Hot Headed Religion

"It very often happens that the converts that are born in excitement die when the excitement is over. They are like certain insects which are the product of an exceedingly warm day, and die when the sun goes down. Certain converts live like salamanders, in the fire; but they expire at a reasonable temperature. I delight not in the religion which needs or creates a hot head. Give me the godliness which flourishes upon Calvary rather than upon Vesuvius. The utmost zeal for Christ is consistent with common-sense and reason: raving, ranting, and fanaticism are products of another zeal which is not according to knowledge." C. H. Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

Salos "The Branch of His Planting"

I have been working for the past little while on recording some music. I used to play guitar in bands and never have to worry about any other parts. Since I've been moving around so much in the past few years, I haven't able to get together with like-minded people to write with. So I built a computer and started to teach myself how to record. This is what I've come up with. The EP is called "The Branch of His Planting". Here is what theopenlife.com said about the album, "Tell your friends to settle down and listen up. The sophomore release of Joshua Klein's solo project, Salos, is a restful and contemplative selection of instrumentals. Aficionados may find it reminiscent of Unwed Sailor or Explosions in the Sky. More like a Chaniwa tea garden than an overgrown field, the album cuts back excess brush to plot comfortable and sometimes poignant paths with modestly overlayed guitars, e-bow, drums, and occasional viola. The Branch of His Planting comes with an accompanying sheet of texts and an invitation: the listener is encouraged to print out and read selected scriptures along with the music. Consider it a sort of guided tour through the well-cultivated vineyard of Joshua's fruitful thoughts."

For free download of the whole album, go here!

Take note in the following passage... what is the content of the 'evil boasting' this person is charged with?

"Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. " James 4:13-16

The 'evil boasting' described is "tomorrow we will". Godless speech is evil. Forgive us, O LORD.

Rick Gamache of Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Bloomington, MN reminds of the importance of constant recognition of Divine Providence. Download here > If the Lord Wills.mp3

Grudem on Spiritual Presence in the Lord's Supper

"Sometimes Protestants have become so concerned to deny the Roman Catholic view of the "real presence" of Christ in the elements that they have wrongly denied even any spiritual presence. Millard Erickson notes the humorous situation that results: "Out of a zeal to avoid the conception that Jesus is present in some sort of magical way, certain Baptists among others have sometimes gone to such extremes as to give the impression that the one place where Jesus most assuredly is not to be found is the Lord's supper. This is what one Baptist leader termed 'the doctrine of real absence' of Jesus Christ" (Christian Theology p.1123)"- Wayne Grudem Systematic Theology p.996 (footnote)