Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: God, the second title in The Good Portion series.
The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 3:40PM
Had we been among the watchers at Calvary, we should have seen nailed to the cross Pilate’s notice of Jesus’ alleged crime. But if by faith we look back to Calvary from where we now are, what we see is the list of our own unpaid debts of obedience to God, for which Christ paid the penalty in our place.
—J. I. Packer in the intro to In My Place Condemned He Stood.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 11:34AM The reasons annexed to the third commandment, in these words, The Lord thy God, and, For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain,[1] are, because he is the Lord and our God, therefore his name is not to be profaned, or any way abused by us;[2] especially because he will be so far from acquitting and sparing the transgressors of this commandment, as that he will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment,[3] albeit many such escape the censures and punishments of men.[4]
Monday, June 2, 2008 at 2:38PM While we’re on the subject of crocuses—and if you’d been paying attention, you’d know we’ve been discussing them—here’s a photo my son Andrew emailed me last night. It was uploaded yesterday, but he snapped it a couple of weeks ago.
The blue berry-like things on the evergreen in the background are juniper berries, which are really cones.