Welcome to Blog and May Blog from DougWills.com. This audio is brought to you by Canon Press.

Before we get started, I want to recommend a book to you, Pastor Wilson's Against the Church.

And against the Church, he takes a hammer to some of our very favorite graven images.

And surprise, surprise, we've set up display cases for most of them in our churches.

Liturgy, tradition, systematics, infant baptism, and that crafty old bale doctrine.

Alongside a critique of philosophical assumptions about human nature, dualism and grace,

Doug stresses the unavoidable and absolute necessity of individual hearts being born again.

He concludes by laying out the case for the Church.

If we want to see Reformation across our country, it starts with the household of God always.

Get Pastor Wilson's Against the Church at CanonPress.com.

America's Stony Heart, April 28, 2021.

Introduction.

Hardness of heart is a sophomore sin.

By saying this, I'm saying that hardness of heart knows how to argue in the direction

of what seems to be its own interests.

Those arguments can be ingenious, subtle, complicated, or more than a little bit clever,

but they are all soft-marked and advanced in the cause of whatever the Schumeric lust might be.

Today, if you hear, put another way, hardness of heart always has something to say.

It does not matter how plain and obvious the way of the Lord might be.

Hardness knows how to obfuscate the issues.

It is awfully hard to persuade someone of something when their continuation in sin depends upon them not understanding you.

The sin that holds them by the throat may vary.

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