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- Ronald Jenson - Jerome - JH Jewitt - Adoniram Judson, Jr. -
ronald jenson
James Boice Files
"One person who knows a great deal about biblical meditation is Ronald A. Jenson, former President of the School of Theology of the International Christian Graduate University. In a booklet published by the International Council of Biblical Inerrancy, he tells how he had developed a successful pornography business when he was still in elementary school, buying sexually explicit literature and pictures and selling them to friends at a profit. He ran it out of his basement. When he became a Christian, what he was and what he had been doing changed dramatically. But although he abandoned his pornography business and got active in church work, he still had trouble with his thought life because the strong sexual material he had been feeding on had become part of what he was. He described it by saying, "When you sow a thought, you reap an action. When you sow that action, you reap a habit. When you sow that habit, you reap a character. When you sow that character, you reap a destiny."1 He had been sowing lustful thoughts, and a lustful character had been formed.
What delivered him from a pornographic pattern of life was discovering how to meditate on the Bible's teaching. He learned how to be transformed “by the renewing of [his] mind” (Rom. 12:2). Meditation involved thinking what the passage he was studying was about and internalizing it, imagining what it would mean for him in specific acts of conduct. He even worked on singing specific verses to whatever tune seemed to fit them, because singing helped fix the biblical truths in his mind. He was changed. His conclusion was this: “Biblical meditation is hard work, but the reward is worth it—a consistent, victorious Christian life.”
--James Boice; Theme: The Connection between Prayer and Bible Study
What delivered him from a pornographic pattern of life was discovering how to meditate on the Bible's teaching. He learned how to be transformed “by the renewing of [his] mind” (Rom. 12:2). Meditation involved thinking what the passage he was studying was about and internalizing it, imagining what it would mean for him in specific acts of conduct. He even worked on singing specific verses to whatever tune seemed to fit them, because singing helped fix the biblical truths in his mind. He was changed. His conclusion was this: “Biblical meditation is hard work, but the reward is worth it—a consistent, victorious Christian life.”
--James Boice; Theme: The Connection between Prayer and Bible Study
"A trigger is any event or emotion which evokes an inevitable response. Planning thinks about both the triggers and the usual result they bring in you. What are your triggers?....If you can identify the things which leads up to your difficult time, you can prepare for and outmaneuver defeat and failure."
---Ronald A. Jenson, Biblical Meditation: A Transforming Discipline (Oakland, CA: ICBI, 1982)
jerome of stridon
St. Jerome, Latin in full Eusebius Hieronymus, pseudonym Sophronius, (born c. 347, Stridon, Dalmatia—died 419/420, Bethlehem, Palestine; feast day September 30), biblical translator and monastic leader, traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He lived for a time as a hermit, became a priest, served as secretary to Pope Damasus I, and about 389 established a monastery at Bethlehem. His numerous biblical, ascetical, monastic, and theological works profoundly influenced the early Middle Ages. He is known particularly for his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, and is considered a doctor of the church.
Jerome of Stridon Files
They govern the sheep harshly and infuriatingly, behaving haughtily as is expected of them. They adorn the dignity of their office with their works and take on pride instead of humility. They think that they have assumed honor rather than the burden of their work, and however they see coming forward in the church, preaching the word of God, they seek out to impress.
---Jerome of Stridon (342–347 – 30 September 420)
Jerome of Stridon Files
“When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.”
― St. Jerome of Stridon (342–347 – 30 September 420)
“the liberty of the soul is lost through the windows of the eyes,”
― St Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible
Jerome of Stridon Files
“The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom."
― St.Jerome of Stridon (342–347 – 30 September 420)
Jerome of Stridon Files
“For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.”
― St. Jerome, Select Letters
jh jewett
JH Jewitt
We are not “born again” into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. – Dr. JH Jewett
JH Jewitt
Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battlefield. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. – Dr. JH Jewett
Adoniram Judson, Jr.
Adoniram Judson, Jr. (Born: August 9, 1788 Died: April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson was sent from North America to preach in Burma. His mission and work with Luther Rice led to the formation of the first Baptist association in America to support missionaries.
Adoniram Judson Jr
"A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day."
--Adoniram Judson Jr