July 25, 2022
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Godliness, Heaven, Patience, sincerity, zeal
Continuing with Thomas Watson on characteristics of the godly person from “The Godly Man’s Picture”, this will be the last newsletter on this subject for a while. There are more to come....
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June 28, 2022
by Paul Toews
| Tags: character, Godliness, Godly, Holiness
Have you ever thought to yourself, “He is a godly man” or “She is a godly woman”? While there are some unique expressions of godliness in a biblical understanding of manhood and womanhood, there are many common characteristics of a godly person....
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January 29, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Comfort, Godliness, Tenderness
This concludes our look at Godliness according to Thomas Watson in “The Godly Man’s Picture”. At the end of the book (the second last chapter) he offers comfort to the godly. This is so important, because if you are a godly person you will mourn your lack of godliness. You will not focus on what you have but how far you still have to go. You may even become discourag...
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January 8, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Godliness, influence, Spiritual
Continuing with Thomas Watson on characteristics of the godly person from “The Godly Man’s Picture”...
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January 1, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Godliness, indulgence, Love, Relationships, Thanksgiving
This month we are continuing with Thomas Watson on characteristics of the godly person from “The Godly Man’s Picture”. This goes together with the earlier series I did in August, 2015. Thomas Watson’s words will be in italics as a means of identification....
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August 21, 2015
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: character, Godliness, Humility, Prayer
Continuing with Thomas Watson on characteristics of the godly person from “The Godly Man’s Picture”:...
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August 14, 2015
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: character, Godliness, weeping, Worship
A godly person cares about the worship of God. This isn’t to say that he enjoys worship, but that he is careful about it. A godly man reverences divine institutions, and is more for the purity of worship than the pomp....
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August 7, 2015
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: character, Godliness, Holiness
Thomas Watson, in “The Godly Man’s Picture”, puts forth 24 characteristics of a godly person. The first is that they are spiritually knowledgeable. This knowledge is grounded in the faith (Col. 1:23). It is one that esteems God and energizes (enlivens) the spirit. It is applicable to our sinful nature and transforms that nature (2 Cor. 3:18). It is a knowledge t...
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