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This is not mere evangelical piety. Beeke and Myers are showing why certain reformed distinctives, like Sabbath-keeping, infant baptism, and Psalm-singing, are central to solid piety.

This had a lengthy introduction but was a great challenge to preserve the Western tradition and a great warning of the dangers of not doing so.

I appreciate that Murray is not married to lectio continua. Lots today speak as if Spurgeon and the Puritans were in error for not just preaching straight through books all the time. Not so.

This is going to be the best grammar I’ve read. This is a very engaging way to teach the language. Grammar concepts are taught through short funny stories in Greek.

Having taught through the whole noun system now, I like and have grown to prefer Mounce’s method of covering the whole noun system first before introducing any verbs.

Ever since I disappointedly finished Mere Christianity a while ago, I’ve wondered if there was a reformed alternative somewhere. I think I’ve found it in Machen’s early 20th century radio addresses on the Christian faith here.

Really insightful section on honoring your father and mother as an adult. It is an important truth to consider that our parents owe us nothing. Anything they choose to give us after we leave home is grace. The obligation is ours to honor them until they die.

This is excellent so far.

The redeemed man prepares for and keeps the Lord’s Day holy. -Conrad Mbewe

Book 2 done.

Really good stuff on methodologies. Our presentation must make clear that this is a serious matter, a matter of life and death. Our presentation must not trivialize the Gospel, and our seriousness in presentation cannot be artificial. We will only do it if we know really and personally that the things of God concern life and death and eternity.

“why should any man prefer his composures before David’s Psalms, is it because they are more excellent?”

The book is “…intended for the more ignorant, (such as the most are who question, or deny the singing of David’s Psalms) and therefore contrived and framed with the greatest plainness, so as they might best serve to give understanding to the simple.”

Pretty solid so far. A very concise guide to reformed systematic theology like this is really helpful.

Very insightful and convicting that wandering thoughts in worship is the sin of hypocrisy. The mouth, eyes, and ears may be engaged, but the heart is not.