Good Read: No Little People by Francis A. Schaeffer

Good Read: Escape from Reason by Francis Schaeffer

/ETCF.016. THE HOLINESS OF GOD

Summary 1. Holiness has two distinct meanings: (1) “otherness” or being “set apart” and (2) “pure and righteous actions.” 2. We are called to be holy—to reflect God’s righteousness and purity. Ex.3:1-6;1Sa2:2;Psa99:1-9;Isa6:1-13;Rev4:1-11;

/ETCF.015. THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD

Summary 1. Omniscience means “all knowledge.” 2. Only an infinite Being can possess infinite knowledge. 3. God has a higher degree of knowledge than His creatures, but it is of the same logical order. 4. To attribute a different kind of logic to God is fatal to Christianity. 5. God’s omniscience is grounded in His infinity and His omnipotence. 6. God’s omniscience is crucial to His role as the Judge of the world. Psalm 147:5;Ezekiel 11:5;Acts 15:18;Romans 11:33-36;Hebrews 4:13;

/ETCF.014 THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD

1. Only an infinite Spirit can be omnipresent. 2. God is not bound by time or space. His Being transcends time and space. 3. God’s omnipresence includes His immensity by which He is able to be present in His fullness at all times and in all places. 4. God’s omnipresence is a comfort to the believer and a terror to the unbeliever.
1 Kings 8:27;Job 11:7-9;Jeremiah 23:23-24;Acts 17:22-31;

/ETCF.013 THE OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD

1. Omnipotence does not mean that God can do anything. He cannot act against His nature. 2. Omnipotence refers to God’s sovereign power, authority, and control over the created order. 3. Omnipotence, though a threat to the wicked, is a source of comfort to the believer. 4. The same power God exhibited in creation is displayed in our redemption. 5. Nothing in the universe can thwart or frustrate God’s plans.

Genesis17.1;Psalm115.3;Romans11.36;Ephesians1.11;Hebrews1.3;

Puritan reads...

'The Mystery of Providence' by John Flavel ~ epub html SAMPLE Now my business here is not so much to deal with professed atheists who deny the existence of God and consequently deride all evidences brought from Scripture of the extraordinary events that fall out in favour of that people that are called His, but rather to convince those that professedly own all this, yet, never having tasted religion by experience, suspect, at least, that all these things which we call special providences to the saints, are but natural events or mere contingencies. Thus, while they profess to own a God and a Providence (which profession is but the effect of their education) they do in the meantime live like atheists, and both think and act as if there were no such things; and really, I fear this is the case with the greater part of the men of this generation. 'Complete John Bunyan' ~ epub html SAMPLE “Then I saw in my dream that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand and led him into a place where there was a fire burning against a wall. There was one standing by it who was always throwing water on it to put it out. Even so the fire burned higher and hotter.” “‘This fire is the work of grace that is done in the heart. The one who throws water on it to extinguish it is the devil. But you also see the reason the fire continues to burn higher and hotter.’ So he took him around to the back of the wall, where he saw a man with a bottle of oil in his hand. He was secretly and continuously throwing this oil into the fire.’”

Good History read...

Lunar Men ...this is an excellent book. It gives a feeling for the general excitement felt for science and discovery from this period.

/Good Read ~ My Friend Flicka

Melanie and I are reading this ~ very good ~ http://bit.ly/MTBee_ESI_Google_Books_My_Friend_Flicka Author remembers well what it is like to be young. She has an amazing ability to capture what it feels - smells, like and even the way you think as a kid. Example: "He knew how to do it. To get into another world..."

/ETCF.011.THE TRIUNITY OF GOD

From: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith ~ R.C. Sproul

Summary

1. The doctrine of the Trinity affirms the triunity of God.

2. The doctrine of the Trinity is not a contradiction: God is one
 in essence and three in person.

3. The Bible affirms both the oneness of God and the deity of 
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

4. The Trinity is distinguished by the work assumed by the Father,
 Son, and Holy Spirit.

5. The doctrine of the Trinity sets the limits of human 
speculation about the nature of God.

Biblical passages for reflection:

Deu6.4;Mat3.16-17;Mat28.19;2Co13.14;1Pe1.2;