Proverbs 29:14-15

THE DOCTRINE OF MAN’S IMPOTENCE Chapter 4 ROOT As no heart can sufficiently conceive, so no voice or pen can adequately portray the awful state of wretchedness and woe into which sin has cast guilty man. It has separated him from God and so has severed him from the only Source of holiness and true h... Read More

The Total Depravity of Man Chapter 5 TRANSMISSION In introducing this aspect of our subject we cannot do better than set before the reader what A. A. Hodge pointed out in Outlines of Theology as …the self-evident moral principles which must ever be certainly presupposed in every inquiry into the dea... Read More

"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." [Proverbs 22:6] I believe that most professing Christians are acquainted with our sermon text. The sound of it is probably very familiar to your ears, like an old tune. It is likely that you have heard it, or read ... Read More

"Sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace." Romans 6:14 What does the dominion of sin import, and wherein does it consist? Sin is in dominion, when it has the universal and sovereign command of the soul, when it has an absolute power, when it has such an a... Read More

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Prov. 22:6) I have learned a lot of things you parents don't know. Your proximity hinders you. Does it say 'tell' a child what he should do, and when he is old, he will not depart from it? It does not say 't... Read More

Most dads think that babies are a bit boring. They look forward to the day the infant becomes a "real" human being. Until he can relate, smile, talk, etc., men are usually happy to let the baby be the woman's responsibility. Not that the dad doesn't love his offspring. He loves him as much as he doe... Read More

Divine Mercy to Mourning Penitents By Samuel Davies "I have surely heard Ephraim's moaning: 'You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God. After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I struck my thigh... Read More

“So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly and gave sense, and caused them to understand the reading” (Nehemiah 8:8). The meanings of the Holy Scriptures are not always obvious to everyone. Hence the preacher’s responsibility to “give sense” and to cause his listeners to understand the t... Read More

Proverbs 20:15 I think I inherited from my mother a love for the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament. They were well marked on the india pages of her Bible and she quoted them to me often. I think probably they loomed large in her life because I was her only son and there is no other book in the B... Read More

July 25, 1982 Judges 2:6-14 When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work which the Lord ha... Read More