Two things: First, I realize there’s been a couple weeks hiatus here at the blog. I spoke at Lovesong in Maui two weeks ago, and though I had written blog posts in advance for while I would be …
Satan’s War to Discourage Believers; Thomas Brooks, Part 4
This is part 4 of a 5-part series of blogs summarizing the message of Thomas Brooks’ Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices. Brooks lists Satan’s most common strategies to discourage, defeat and …
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Satan’s War to Keep You Out of Church; Thomas Brooks, Part 3
This post is part three of our summary of the Puritan classic Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks. You can read part 1 HERE and part 2 HERE. This week, we’re looking at how …
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Recognizing the Sinfulness of Sin; Thomas Brooks, Part 2
We’re continuing our series summarizing Thomas Brooks’ Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices. You can read part 1 HERE. The outline comments are all quotes or near paraphrases from Brooks. I …
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Satan’s Devices to Draw the Soul to Sin
Thomas Brooks, Part 1 The next five weeks (or so—we’ll see as we go along) we’ll be looking at Thomas Brooks’ Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices. Thomas Brooks was an English non-conformist …
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Virtue and Friendship
Ambrose begins Book III (you can read summaries of Book I HERE and Book II HERE) of his magnum opus Duties of the Clergy by extolling the importance of drawing wisdom and understanding from scriptural …