Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com. This audio is brought to you by

Cannon Press. Before we get started I wanted to make sure that you knew that Jonathan Edwards religious

affections has now been added to the Christian Heritage Series with an introduction from

Joe Rigny.

Due to the shallowness of much modern Christian worship in life,

we can often think of the display of intense religious emotions

as a hypocritical outward show.

And we are right to be suspicious, since the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately

wicked, Jeremiah 179. Nevertheless, emotions are a gift from God and are a part of what God

redeems. When the first Great Awakening was breaking out in New England in the

1700s,

Pastor Jonathan Edwards approved of it

and prayed for great revival.

However, as a man who suffered from depression and melancholy,

Edwards also warned people of the dangers of relying alone on such intense emotions.

The center of the Christian religion is not our emotions, but Christ in his goodness.

This classic will inspire you

to consider both your life and your emotions

and to follow the top ropes March 25th 2020

Introduction I speak of course in metaphors.

Yesterday the Prime Minister of India put a billion people, more or less, into lockdown.

He did this because there was a spike in cases, 519 cases to be exact and 10 reported deaths.

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