From the Garden to Glory by Bruce Cooper

March 20, 2026

I just finished reading From the Garden to Glory by Bruce Cooper who blogs at the REASONED CASES FOR CHRIST blog. I think every Christian could benefit greatly from reading this excellent work. Bruce examines how God revealed Himself gradually over time, with the Old Testament setting the stage and the New Testament providing fulfillment.  Instead of organizing doctrine by topic (like Systematic Theology), it tracks the unfolding story of salvation chronologically (redemption history). Bruce covers the entire Bible in 136 pages. I found this very helpful and will be using it as a study reference in the future. Follow the link below to find that Bruce has provided a freely available link to a PDF of this work. May God bless your studies of His Word! -CR

From the Garden to Glory: A Chronological Guide to Biblical Theology for Christian Laypersons

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Quote #40…Richard Baxter 1615-1691 (7)

March 16, 2026

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 6

“Bring not a carnal mind, which savoreth only fleshly things and is enslaved to those sins which the Scripture doth condemn.
For the carnal mind is enmity against God, and neither is, nor can be subject to His Law (Rom 8:7-8). And the things of God are not discerned by the mere natural man, for they are foolishness to him, and they must be spiritually discerned (2Co 2:14); and enmity is an ill expositor. It will be quarrelling with all and making faults in the Word which findeth so many faults in you. It will hate that Word which cometh to deprive you of your most sweet and dearly beloved sin. Or, if you have such a carnal mind and enmity, believe it not, any more than a partial and wicked enemy should be believed against God Himself, Who better understandeth what He hath written, than any of His foolish enemies.“

(…to be continued)

(e) Rom. 8: 7, 8.
(f) 2 Cor. 2:14

From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3

Richard Baxter (Click on this link for a short Biography)
Richard Baxter (Click on this link for a longer Biography)

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The Biblical Jesus & The Roman Catholic Jesus

March 13, 2026

If we love our Catholic friends, we must tell them that the Jesus of the Bible is not the same Jesus of the Roman Catholic church. This video shows the differences clearly. I’m of the opinion that all Catholics and Protestants should know this information.

I would like to thank Tom of excatholic4christ for sharing this important video.

God Bless you,

Chris Reimers

Roman Catholicism Through the Lens of Scripture, Episode 2: Declaring the Sufficiency of Christ in Salvation

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Quotes #39…John Owen 1616-1683

March 9, 2026

“The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God’s grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).” – John Owen

“I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.” -John Owen

John Owen (Click here for biographical information on John Owen. There are advertisements on the site from which I do not profit. – CR)

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Crocus Celebration

March 4, 2026

Being painfully aware that this blog lacks actual color of late, I have decided to share an occasional picture from my garden this year. As God will be responsible for any picture I take, I must give Him attribution. I’m just holding a phone sorta steady and clicking on an icon. Some of you may have wondered where so many of the pictures that once graced the scribbling here went. I decided to ditch many of them because they hadn’t the proper attribution. In any case, I know all the places where one can get free pictures for a blog post if I want one but many of my recent posts are more about colorful words than pictures.

This grouping of flowers reminded me of these verses from my favorite sermon:

27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? 28 And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.”

By the way, the only contribution I made to what is in the picture was the dividing of crocus roots last year.

I know these colors will clash with my header, but I hope it’s not too unbearable. (Maybe it’s time for the old header to go!)

Chris Reimers 









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Quotes #38…Thomas Goodwin 1600-1680

February 27, 2026

God’s grace and mercy is a bottomless ocean, and it will never run dry.

Thomas Goodwin (Click on Thomas’s name to see his biography, or watch the video below)

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Quotes #37…John Maynard 1600-1665

February 23, 2026

Christ’s satisfaction and righteousness is the full, perfect, and only cause of justification and pardon of sin, and that no holiness, no duties of the persons justified, help anything at all towards their justification; it is the Righteousness of Christ imputed to them, which maketh up the whole matter of their Righteousness in the sight of God, and covereth all their sins.

John Maynard

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“I have learned…to be content”

February 19, 2026

“I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.”
Philippians 4:11

These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow apace.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth: and so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education. But the precious things of the earth must be cultivated. If we would have wheat, we must plough and sow; if we want flowers, there must be the garden, and all the gardener’s care. Now, contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated; it will not grow in us by nature; it is the new nature alone that can produce it, and even then we must be specially careful and watchful that we maintain and cultivate the grace which God has sown in us. Paul says, “I have learned … to be content;” as much as to say, he did not know how at one time. It cost him some pains to attain to the mystery of that great truth. No doubt he sometimes thought he had learned, and then broke down. And when at last he had attained unto it, and could say, “I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content,” he was an old, grey-headed man, upon the borders of the grave–a poor prisoner shut up in Nero’s dungeon at Rome. We might well be willing to endure Paul’s infirmities, and share the cold dungeon with him, if we too might by any means attain unto his good degree. Do not indulge the notion that you can be contented without learning, or learn without discipline. It is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually. We know this from experience. Brother, hush that murmur, natural though it be, and continue a diligent pupil in the College of Content.

From Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening

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Quotes #36…Edmund Calamy 1600-1666

February 12, 2026

By the law we see our misery and by the Gospel we see our remedy.

Edmund Calamy

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Dog Wants a Kitty

February 9, 2026

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