My name is Jeff, I was born in 1964, became a Christian in 1984 through reading the book of John and am happily married.

Our real idea of God may lie buried under the rubbish of conventional religious notions and may require an intelligent and vigorous search before it is finally unearthed and exposed for what it is.

–A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy

This is the process I’m going through now and may be for the rest of my life. There are so many “conventional religious notions” as Tozer puts it that I have taken for granted. I’m now in the process of carefully going through the New Testament (and later on at least part of the Old Testament) with the help of commentaries to see what’s true and what’s false. For what’s true I want to know Scripture to back it up. And I’ve gotten to the point that whenever I hear something dealing with theology, a person’s opinion or even hearing or reading a verse of the Bible in isolation, I need to look into it. (Acts 17:11)

More importantly I want to know God better through reading His letter to us. How fascinating and unending this is. It’s not just reading and gaining knowledge, it’s having the Creator as a teacher revealing Himself to us.

The faithful pastor, and all other faithful believers, love to learn God’s Word because they love the God of the Word.

–John MacArthur

There are obviously many other facets to our spiritual life like prayer etc. This blog focuses on studying the Bible through reading it, books and commentaries about it and various articles and blogs found on the internet.

If nothing else I’d like to keep a record for myself of what I’m learning. If a couple of other people can benefit that would be great. If others can help me through their comments that would be even better.

I’m Reformed for the most part if that makes any difference to you. I don’t believe one must be Reformed to be saved or know the truth.

My main subjects of interest are the historical Jesus and Christology, prayer, suffering, and the sovereignty of God. As you can guess, the last two overlap quite a bit.

My hobbies are gardening including houseplants, with coleuses being my favorite plant, photography, computers, web design, coffee even though I can’t drink much, and roasting it, beer even though I don’t drink much and brewing it, cats and going to see doctors.

I was interviewed by Shaun Tabatt.

You can found out why I don’t have a blogroll if you like.

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