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Reading Notes

Quotes and reflections, book by book, page by page.

5-part series

Notes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics

Herman Bavinck

3Creation, Humanity and SinNotes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 277-375: angels, providence and secondary causes, humanity between angels and animals, Adam as head of humanity, sin as a parasite and privation of the good, and the moral law as the standard of sin.
4Christ and SalvationNotes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 401-563: the old and new covenants, Christ's full humanity, the benefits given through Christ, salvation by grace rather than works, and grace and the human will, with David's reflection on how Jesus was tempted.
5Last ThingsNotes on the closing pages of Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 731-754: the Old Testament as the shadow of the New, the resurrection body as the same body raised, and history as judgment, with David's musing on whether we keep our DNA.
1Knowing God and ScriptureNotes on Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics (abridged), pp. 8-148: theology grounded in revelation rather than experience, the limits of objectivity, Scripture as God's ongoing speech, faith and doubt, and the Spirit's inward certainty.
2God and the TrinityNotes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 158-257: God's attributes, time and eternity, sin as privation, God as truth, analogies for the Trinity and predestination, with David's notes on free will, honest speech and fairness.

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Notes on Deeper

Notes on Dane Ortlund's Deeper and How Does God Change Us?: growth rooted in God's love, justification outside in and sanctification inside out, defeating sin by looking to Christ, C.S. Lewis on muddy children, and identity in union with Christ.

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Notes on The Enemy Within

Six notes from Kris Lundgaard's The Enemy Within on the sin that remains in believers: the deceitful heart, Paul's cry in Romans 7:24, how the flesh resists prayer, the broken harmony of mind, affections and will, and whether God gives enough time.

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Notes on The Shadow of Calvary

Notes on Hugh Martin's The Shadow of Calvary: praying for salvation, Christ as intercessor, obedience as a labour of love, dwelling at the cross and praying side by side with Christ, with David's reflections on prayer and on Christ's life given for ours.

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