He has called us out of this world…
October 26, 2025
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Quotes #14…Timothy Rogers 1658-1728
October 23, 2025Verse 9 (Psalm 16) – “My heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth…” His inward joy was not able to contain itself. We testify our pleasure on lower occasions, even at the gratification of our senses; when our ear is filled with harmonious melody, when out eye is fixed upon admirable and beauteous objects, when our smell is recreated with agreeable odours, and our taste also by the delicacy and rareness of provisions; and much more will our soul show its delight, when its faculties, that are of a more exquisite constitution, meet with things that are in all respects agreeable and pleasant to them; and in God they meet with all those: with his light our understanding is refreshed, and is our will with his goodness and his love.
From C.H.S.’s Exposition of the Psalms (The Treasury of David)
6 Lessons from a Depressed Puritan Pastor: Timothy Rogers
(A must read for anyone who has depression or knows of someone who has it.)
This is an example from “6 Lessons.” It is the Fourth lesson:
Lesson #4: Focus on Encouragement Over Exhortation
As a wise and caring soul physician, Rogers equips others to care like Christ. “Do not urge your melancholy friends to do what is out of their power. They are like persons whose bones are broken, and who are incapacitated for action.”
Astute enough to imagine the negative response his statement might receive, Rogers adds, “But you will ask, ought we not to urge them to hear the Word of God?”
Rogers responds to his own question by noting that the soul physician must know well the particular person they are counseling. He says to “kindly and gently” encourage them, if they are able, to “attend the preaching of the Word; but beware of using a peremptory and violent method.”
Rogers then illustrates his suggested approach using a situation well-known in his day.
“The method pursued by John Dod with Mrs. Drake should be imitated. ‘The burden which overloaded her soul was so great, that we never durst add any thereunto, but fed her with all encouragements, she being too apt to overcharge herself, and to despair upon any addition of fuel to that fire which was inwardly consuming her.’”
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My comment: I think that Timothy Rogers would have encouraged people with life changing depression to seek a doctor who would attempt to find the proper modern medications for this, as he called it, disease.
CR
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Christian Genocide in Nigeria
October 20, 2025I’ve been watching Nigeria for years now and have posted about this problem more than once before. Recently, many small news sources complained that this horrific situation was receiving no mainstream news media coverage. It is now hitting the mainstream and many of you who are reading this may know about the persecution of Christians there. A few years ago, in one year, over 4,000 Christians were killed and, as far as we know, no other country came close to these numbers. This year is not over yet and I’m hearing that up to 7,500 Christians have been killed there this year. A Nigerian leader has said that 7,500 is way too high and that the number is more likely to be in the hundreds. With Nigeria’s past record, I think the number is much more likely to be in the thousands. People at the highest level of our government know of this situation and are concerned. It is good to see men in our government discussing this topic.
My goal here is to ask for prayers for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria. Please pray that God would give the Nigerian people strength through the persecution they are experiencing.
Chris Reimers
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Quotes #13…Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758
October 16, 2025You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Quotes #12…William Greenhill 1650
October 13, 2025Verse 3. – David would direct his prayer to God and look up; not down to the world, down to corruption, but up to God what he would speak. Psalm 85:8 – “I will hear what God the Lord will speak.” Let the resolution of the prophet be thine: “I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” – Micah 7:7.
Verse 3 refers to Psalm 5:3. The quote is found in C.H.S.’s Treasury of David.
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Quotes #11…Jonathan D. Sarfati 2015
October 9, 2025In the elaboration of Genesis 1:26-28 in Genesis 2, we see that God first created only one man and one woman. Jesus cited both Genesis 1:27 and 2:24 to teach about Marriage and divorce (Matthew 19:3-9, Mark 10: 2-12).
This is the first passage showing that God ordained marriage as a man and a woman. Since much of the church has abandoned this historical foundation, is it any wonder that marriage is under severe attack in the western world?
Found in The Genesis Account, A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11. Page 261.
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Quote #10…Richard Baxter 1615-1691 (1)
October 6, 2025Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures.
SEEING the diversity of men’s tempers and understandings is so exceedingly great, that it is impossible that any thing should be pleasing and suitable to some, which shall not be disliked and quarrelled with by others; and seeing in the Scriptures there are many things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest to their own destruction (a). And the word is to some the savour of death unto death (b). You have therefore need to be careful in reading it. And as Christ saith, “Take heed how you hear;(c)” so I say, Take heed how you read.
(…to be continued)
(a) Pet. 3:16. (b) Mark 4:24. 2 Cor. 2:16. (c) Luke 8:18.
From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Volume 3.
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Quotes #9…Keith Gordon Green 1977
October 2, 2025I found it hard to believe, Someone like you cared for me
You put this love in my heart
I tried but could not refuse, You gave me no time to choose
You put this love in my heart
I want to know where the bad feelings go, When I’m depressed and I get down so low
And then I see you coming to me and it’s alright
I want to tell you right now, I’m not afraid to say how
You put this love in my heart
There are sometimes when I doubt, But you always find me out
You put this love in my heart
‘Cause when I see all that you’ve done for me
It’s hard to doubt, I just have to believe
‘Cause you follow up, provin’ all of your love
Well I know The loneliness I had before
Is gone now, I’ll never feel it anymore
‘Cause your love has released me
From all that’s in my past
And I know I can believe you
When you say I’ll never be forsaken
Your love is gonna last
There’s so much more I should say, If I could just find a way
You put this love in my heart
Is all this real or a dream, I feel so good I could scream
You put this love in my heart
I want to know where the bad feelings go
When I’m depressed and I get down so low
And then I see you coming to me and it’s alright
You put this love in my heart
You put this love in my heart
You put this love in my heart
From the Album For him who has ears to hear 1977
You put this love in my heart (from the album)
You put this love in my heart (live in 1977)
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Quotes #8…William Gurnall 1616-1679
September 29, 2025“I laid me down and slept; I awakened; for the Lord sustained me.” The title of the Psalm tells us when David had this sweet night’s rest; not when he lay on his bed of down in the stately palace at Jerusalem, but when he fled for his life from his unnatural son Absalom, and possibly was forced to lie in the open field under the canopy of heaven. Truly it must be a soft pillow indeed that could make him forget his danger, who then had such a disloyal army at his back hunting of him; yea, so transcendent is the influence of this peace, that it can make the creature lie down as cheerfully to sleep in the grave, as on the softest bed. You will say that child is willing that calls to be put to bed; some of the saints have desired God to lay them at rest in their beds of dust, and that not in a pet and discontent with their present trouble, as Job did, but from a sweet sense of this peace in their bosoms. ‘Now let thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation,” was the swan-like song of old Simeon. He speaks like a merchant that had got all his goods on the ship-board, and now desires the master of the ship to hoist sail, and be gone homewards. Indeed, what should a Christian, this is but a foreigner here, desire to stay any longer for in the world, but to get his full lading in for heaven? And when hath he that, if not when he is assured of his peace with God? This peace of the gospel, and sense of the love of God in the soul, doth so admirably conduce to the enabling of a person in all difficulties, and temptations, and troubles, that ordinarily, before he calls his saints to any hard service, or hot work, he gives them a draught of this cordial wine next their hearts, to cheer them up and embolden them in the conflict.
Quote about Psalm 3:5. Found in C.H.S.’s Treasury of David (Exposition of the Psalms)
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
3 O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!
Many are rising up against me.
2 Many are saying of my soul,
“There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah.
3 But You, O Lord, are a shield about me,
My glory, and the One who lifts my head.
4 I was crying to the Lord with my voice,
And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.
5 I lay down and slept;
I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have set themselves against me round about.
7 Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.
8 Salvation belongs to the Lord;
Your blessing be upon Your people! Selah.
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Wings of the Wind 
Quote #15… Richard Baxter 1615-1691 (2)
October 27, 2025Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 1
Bring not an evil heart of unbelief. Open the Bible with holy reverence as the book of God, indited by the Holy Ghost. Remember that the doctrine of the New Testament was revealed by the Son of God, who was purposely sent from heaven to be the light of the world, and to make known to men the will of God, and the matters of their salvation. Bethink you well, if God should but send a book or letter to you by an angel, how reverently you would receive it? How carefully you would peruse it; and regard it above all the books in the world? And how much rather should you do so, by that book which is indited by the Holy Ghost, and recordeth the doctrine of Christ himself, whose authority is greater than all the angels? Read it not therefore as a common book, with a common and unreverent heart; but in the dread and love of God the author.
(to be continued…)
From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3.
Part One
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