God's love: "a supreme wonder"

"This divine declaration, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3), is by no means from Jeremiah’s standpoint the commonplace which our over-familiarity with that attribute, not seldom at the expense of due regard for other attributes in the nature of God, has made it. The prophet means to describe by this term something quite extraordinary, something well nigh inconceivable, a supreme wonder in that land of wonders which religion can never cease to be. Love is to him the highest form of the spiritual embrace of person by person. To ascribe it to God in connection with a creature is at the farthest remove from being a figure of speech. It means that in the most literal sense He concentrates all the light and warmth of His affection, all the prodigious wealth of its resources, his endless capacity of delight, upon the heart-to-heart union between the pious and Himself. And what God for His part brings into this union has a generosity, a sublime abandon, an absoluteness, that, measured by human analogies, we can only designate as the highest and purest type of devotion. It is named love for this very reason, that God puts into it His heart and soul and mind and strength, and gathers all His concerns with His people into the focus of this one desire." -- Geerhardus Vos, Jeremiah's Plaint and Its Answer

The 12th man

Is he watching the same replay I am? :-)

The cartoon controFVersy

The Craw: Presbyterian Riots Continue

An attempt at humor from the Federal Vision... "This is it, we've had enough of this NT Wright Yankee garbage!" screamed Presbyterian pastor, Bayley Carter Busby as he led a mob through the burning neighborhood."

The irony is that the theology of the federal vision *will* burn.