FAIR SUNSHINE

A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life  This book offers a groundbreaking treatment of the Puritans’ teaching on most major Reformed doctrines, particularly those doctrines in which the Puritans made significant contributions. Since the late 1950s, nearly 150 Puritan authors and 700 Puritan titles have been reprinted and catalogued by Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson in their 2006 collection of mini-biographies and book reviews, titled, Meet the Puritans. However, no work until now has gathered together the threads of their teaching into a unified tapestry of systematic theology.  A Puritan Theology, by Joel Beeke and Mark Jones, attempts to do that. The book addresses Puritan teachings on all six loci of theology, covering fifty areas of doctrine. The book explores Puritan teachings on biblical interpretation, God, predestination, providence, angels, sin, the covenants, the gospel, Christ, preparation for conversion, r...

In the waiting upon Father, I find a twofold grace and an abundant assurance! The first sweet fruit is this: my own wretched, wavering heart finds its feeble strength give way entirely, and thus my dependency upon His sure faithfulness grows stronger and more constant with every passing day! The second, a glorious, visible reward: I am granted the profound privilege to see His mighty Hand move in the world and in the Church, an arresting sight which doth wonderfully and rightly magnify His matchless and eternal Glory! And lo, this very morning, a tender and clear answer to a prayer offered up for mature brethren did shine forth. It arrived by way of a blessed and timely invitation to join in a solemn meeting for prayer—a gathering to be held with dear brethren from a trusted church in the distant plains of Texas, and with others from a hopeful church plant struggling forth in the stony ground of New Mexico! See how the Lord doth knit together the hearts of His people from the four corn...

The LORD continues to bless His own sacred work with manifest fruits, with profound spiritual deepenings, with humbling realizations of our own failings, and with sweet, undeserved comforts. We see clearly the tension between our desperate needs and His perfect answers, all while maintaining our solemn duty to stand firmly against the world, the corrupt flesh, and the malicious devil. Truly, the Sovereign Word doth irresistibly further its transforming work within the souls whom the LORD alone hath drawn unto Himself! The Father's tender and humbling hand is clearly, powerfully evident in the very conduct of this sacred work. In order to keep my poor, sinful heart low and to prevent it from being vainly puffed up by any semblance of success, He hath sovereignly ordained that I should be held of no reputation, and even an object of ridicule amongst those who profess the name of Christ! I am constantly rejected and dismissed for possessing no formal credentials, no seminary education...

My wife and daughter are sick today, but in spite of this the work in the LORD's vineyard continues.

The LORD hath graciously extended unto me a great and undeserved privilege this very evening: to exhort the assembled brethren in a short message, the burden of which was the exaltation of the blessed simplicity of Christ’s divine person! I was invited to journey thirty-one long kilometres—one way—to an informal yet sweet gathering at the home of dear brother Warren, a place blessed by the presence of his beloved wife Angel and a few close friends of the Puritan Project Philippines. My spirit was deeply honored to have met and shared communion with these precious souls tonight. In the simplicity of Christ and the sweetness of fellowship, one finds the true reward of labor! In this season when the Almighty doth seem, for a time, to withdraw the sweet comfort of His manifest presence, I am constrained to look only to His immutable faithfulness, and never to the shifting sands of my own limited understanding. My soul stands unmoved upon Christ’s finished redemptive work, regardless of the...