Commentary on Proverbs 14

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What happens when our public religious lives don't match the hidden corners of our hearts? Today, we're diving into the deep end of the human soul with the help of America's greatest spiritual detectives. From Jonathan Edwards' piercing warning that true faith is verified in the dark, to John Owen's ultimate blueprint for a peaceful, focused mind in a world drowning in distraction, we're pulling back the curtain on performative faith. Even legendary statesman Daniel Webster warned over two centuries ago that without a solid moral compass, a nation slides into chaos. If you've ever wondered whether your inner life matches your outer presentation, or if you're just looking for a little unshakeable peace in a loud world, stay with us—this is a conversation you cannot afford to miss."

Taken and abridged from an introductory essay in the book, True Collections and Accounts of Revival 1845

Not only does all creation bear witness to the great power of God, but also to His entire independency of all created things. Listen to His own challenge: "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof?" (Job 38:4-6). How completely is the pride of man laid in the dust! Power is also used as a name of God, "the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power" (Mark 14:62), that is, at the right hand of God. God and power are so inseparable that they are reciprocated. As His essence is immense, not to be confined in place; as it is eternal, not to be measured in time; so it is almighty, not to be limited in regard of action (S. Charnock).

"Why is modern America so politically fractured and culturally adrift? The answer isn't just found in the latest headlines, but in a hidden theological shift that began over a century ago. Join us as we trace a profound line of thought from the prophetic 19th-century warnings of Southern Presbyterian Robert L. Dabney, through the sharp historical analysis of C. Gregg Singer, to the sweeping cultural philosophy of R.J. Rushdoony. Together, these three thinkers argued that America's shift toward big government and political pragmatism was ultimately caused by an apostasy in the American pulpit—the trading of biblical realism for humanistic utopianism. But don't mistake their ideas for today's top-down 'Christian Nationalism'; these men fiercely distrusted centralized power, warning that a society cannot be saved by the sword of the state, but only through a bottom-up reformation of individual hearts, families, and churches. Stay tuned as we dive into how their warnings predicted our current cultural crisis—and why their solution is radically different than what you hear on the news today."

The Chapel Library Edition with Study Notes: God is immutable in His attributes. Whatever the attributes of God were before the universe was called into existence, they are precisely the same now, and will remain so for ever. Necessarily so; for they are the very perfections, the essential qualities of His being. Semper idem (always the same) is written across every one of them. His power is unabated, His wisdom undiminished, His holiness unsullied. The attributes of God can no more change than Deity can cease to be. His veracity is immutable, for His Word is "for ever...settled in heaven.

Thomas Vincent's God's Terrible Voice in the City is one of the most vivid, haunting, and deeply convicting eye-witness accounts of history. It captures a two-year window when London was brought to its knees by two consecutive apocalyptic crises: the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666.

This 1665 outbreak was the last major widespread epidemic of the bubonic plague in England, killing an estimated 100,000 people—roughly a quarter of London's population at the time—before tapering off in the winter of 1666, a decline accelerated by the Great Fire of London.