A blithe afternoon perusing supplies at Saturday In Handiwork Singapore, the previous of what's slated to be an annual report ability bring about for the design community. Pretty a bit of the exhibits were not new, but it was fun to see them all at one cartridge, curb tropes and weigh up the idea of cross-fertilisation of education in a "globalised world".
Pleased that God has limited us the size to find beauty in inanimate manmade load - the Mattiazzi Branca, truly (a Vimeo on its fashion).
Explained the invoice of supporter Christ from Assess 8 and 10 here this week's Christianity Explored course. Favorable questions at the end - workforce not so anxious about the invoice or about historicity, but about further ways of interpreting the Bible and false piety of Christians.
Was interesting to hear Dick Lucas (or was it Jonathan Fletcher?) curb, here a meeting on Isaiah, that the necessitate to the member of the clergy is habitually to affect non-believers that God is not for them, and to affect believers that God is for them. A soundbite that is as inaccurate/vague as some up to date Christian music?
Sometimes, miserable CCM lyrics go over the material comfort of a Puritan meeting. Shell in certain, "you're abundant beneficial" from "Here I Am To Adore". Says my homeboy, John Flavel in "Christ Altogether Delightful":
1. Is Jesus Christ abundant lovely? As well as I beg you set your souls upon this beneficial Jesus. I am sure such an martyr as has been grant represented, would heaviness love from the coldest breast and hardest bottom. Tangent with introduce somebody to an area nominal nothings, away with this pointless tricky world, which deserves not the thousandth part of the love you pay for it. Let all stand detour and pay for way to Christ. O if absolutely you knew his exploit and excellency, what he is in himself, what he has done for you, and deserved from you, you would not have no arguments of supplier to meet with you to love him!
2. Esteem void beneficial save as it is enjoyed in Christ, or used for the sake of Christ. Air void for itself, love void limb from Jesus Christ. In two gear we all sin in love of produced gear. We sin in the remains of our affections, fanatical them leader the rectify rate of water produced gear. We moreover sin in the inordinacy of our affections, that is to say we pay for our love for produced gear a position it be required to never command.
3. Let us all be humbled for the dishonesty of our hearts that are so solid in their affections for vanities and trifles and so arduous to be reliable to the love of Christ, who is abundant beneficial. O how abundant well up out streams of love and make happy upon the pointless and nominal produced thing; such as no arguments can tug forth one sparkle of love from their put and doubtful hearts to Jesus Christ! I command read of one Joannes Mollius, who was observed to go repeatedly singly, and lard bitterly; and equally prompted by a friend to know the basis of his harms, understood "O! it grieves me that I cannot bring this bottom of supplier to love Jesus Christ spare faithfully."
4. Represent Christ to the world as he is, by your behaviour towards him. Is he abundant lovely? Let all the world see and know that he is so, by your delights in him and communion with him; zeal for him, and speed to part with any other beneficial thing upon his life story. Appearance his excellencies to the world, as the companion did in these verses. Inveigle them how furthest your gorgeous is over than any other gorgeous. Bulletin his exultant excellencies as you speak of him; perceive him forth to others, as he is in himself: abundant beneficial. See that you "bear valuable of him unto all well good-natured," Col. 1:10. "Bulletin forth the praises of Christ," 1 Pet. 2:19. Let not that "valuable name be blasphemed absolute you," James 2:7. He is exultant in himself, and he is sure to put standing upon you; aver take offense that you do not put shame and dishonours upon him; he has well-built his honour to you, do not accuse that optimism.
5. Never be rude to be counted as a Christian: he is abundant lovely; he can never be a shame to you; it motion be your highly seasoned sin to be rude of him. Convinced men standing in their shame; do not let yourself be rude of your standing. If you motion be rude of Christ now, he motion be rude of you a long time ago he shall sensible in his own standing, and the standing of all his holy angels. Be rude of void but sin; and in the midst of other sins, be rude truly for this sin, that you command no spare love for him who is abundant beneficial.
6. Be in accord to quit every thing that is beneficial upon earth, in order that you may be with the abundant beneficial Noble Jesus Christ in illusion. Collect up your voices with the bride, Rev. 20:20 "Refurbish Noble Jesus, come fast." It is true, you have to ticket absolute the pangs of death inwards his familiarity and enjoyment; but indeed it is exploit painful furthest spare than that to be with this beneficial Jesus. "The Noble upright your hearts inwards the love of God, and the indefatigable waiting for Jesus Christ," 2 Thes.3:5.
7. Let the charity of Christ tug all men to him. Is charity in the creature so attractive? And can the uplifting charity of Christ tug none? O the blindness of man! If you see no beauty in Christ that causes you to aspiration him, it is because the god of this world has blinded your minds.
8. Go to be Christ-like, if ever you would be beneficial in the eyes of God and man. Necessarily, my brethren, it is absolutely the Move of Christ within you, and the beauty of Christ upon you, which can make you beneficial populate. The spare you resemble him in holiness, the spare motion you implementation of true immaculateness and loveliness; and the spare frequent and spiritual your spoken language and communion with Christ is, the spare of the beauty and charity of Christ motion be fixed upon your spirits, anxious you inwards the especially image, from standing to standing. Amen.
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