George Washington’s “Sacred Fire”

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Guess what the #1 book is at Amazon.com (at time of writing)? It’s George Washington’s Sacred Fire by Peter Lillback, president of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. (click through links are to the fine, and affordable WTS Bookstore).

This book is already on my shelf and on my to-read list for this summer. Justin Taylor says, “The exhaustively researched book is the culmination of 15 years of research from George Washington’s writings, journals, manuscripts, letters, and testimony from others—showing that Washington was not an unbeliever or a deist but rather a low-church Anglican with genuine faith.” He also reports that Glenn Beck recently had Dr. Lillback on his program, and apparently that boosted the sales. Yup.

I am so thankful that lots of my fellow citizens are reading good stuff. Are you?

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Knowing Christ personally

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You may know a good deal about Christ, by a kind of head knowledge. You may know who He was, and where He was born, and what He did. You may know His miracles, His sayings, His prophecies, and His ordinances. You may know how He lived, and how He suffered, and how He died. But unless you know the power of Christ’s cross by experience — unless you know and feel within that the blood shed on that cross has washed away your own particular sins, unless you are willing to confess that your salvation depends entirely on the work that Christ did upon the cross — unless this be the case, Christ will profit you nothing. The mere knowing Christ’s name will never save you. You must know His cross, and His blood, or else you will die in your sins.

~ J. C. Ryle

from, Practical Religion, Banner of Truth, (19980, pp. 248-9.