Now we are to the third of the four evils Watson discusses that God uses for our good in this teaching from Romans 8:28. I must confess you are not going to like this one at all. It’s desertion. God is just in any “withdrawings” of the sense of His presence (what Watson means by [...]

I want to add some to my previous (pt. 2) entry on temptation. Listen to this and ponder the implications: “Temptation is a trial of our sincerity. It argues that our heart is chaste and loyal to Christ, when we can look temptation in the face, and turn our back upon it” (Watson, pg. 35). [...]

OK, so I warned you that I’m a reader and a lot of the things I read get into my head and rattle around for a while.  In this here blog, you get to hear a little of what’s rattling around up there.  Hopefully, not the really random stuff (like, how do they get the [...]

We are looking at Romans 8: 28. That “God works all things together for good, for those who love Him, to those called according to His purpose.” In our last entry we shared how God even works evil or bad for good. We looked at the first of what Thomas Watson called the four evils [...]

Over the next few days we are going to walk through my gleanings from Thomas Watson (read previous posting on this blog for bio on Watson). I want to point out four “evils” upon which God works for good to those who love Him. So, here is the first of the four: Affliction. God works [...]

Over the next several weeks let’s walk through Romans 8: 28. You know it, right? Follow me and comment if you so desire as we learn from one of my favorite preachers of all time. His name is Thomas Watson. I don’t just like him because his first name is a remarkable name usually given [...]