Category Archives: Books

Blessedness

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Tom Brainerd

“It is good to take Christ’s judgment rather than our own about blessedness.” Jeremiah Burroughs

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Death of Sin in the Death of Christ

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Tom Brainerd

“There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.” John Owen, MoS Chapter VII

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A Safer Path to Hell

Posted on August 13, 2023 by Tom Brainerd

When a man on some outward respects forsakes the practice of any sin, men perhaps may look on him as a changed man. God knows that to his former iniquity he hath added cursed hypocrisy, and is got in asafer … Continue reading →

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All God’s Strokes…

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Tom Brainerd

All God’s strokes are strokes of love and mercy, All God’s ways are mercy and truth, to those who love Him and fear Him (Psalm 25.10). Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Banner of Truth, 60.

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Then I am well enough…

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Tom Brainerd

Thus, a gracious heart thinks in this way: ‘The Lord has been pleased to bring down my circumstances; now if the Lord brings down my heart and makes it equal to my circumstances, then I am well enough.’   Jeremiah … Continue reading →

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Still my heart abides content…

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Tom Brainerd

How to join these two together: to be sensible of an affliction as much as a man or woman who is not content; I am sensible of it as fully as they, and I seek ways to be delivered of … Continue reading →

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Perversity in their hearts…

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Tom Brainerd

Not only must the tongue hold its peace; the soul must be silent. Many may sit silently, refraining from discontented expressions, yet inwardly they are bursting with discontent. This shows a complicated disorder and great perversity within their hearts. Jeremiah … Continue reading →

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By What Means God Is Made Known unto Us…

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Tom Brainerd

“We know him by two means: first, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe; which is before our eyes as a most elegant book, wherein all creatures, great and small, are as so many characters leading us to … Continue reading →

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The Best and Most Stable Realm…

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Tom Brainerd

A word for today from words of the past… “In short, the realm of him is best and most stable who rules in the name of God alone, and his is worst and most unstable who rules in accordance with … Continue reading →

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Countercultural…Defiant…Revolutionary…

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Tom Brainerd

The recitation of a creed in a worship service is one of the most countercultural things Christians can do. It is an act of defiance, if not even of actual revolution. Carl Truman The CREEDAL Imperative, 154

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