Introduction to the "Honey-Combe"

You may have noticed that the spelling of "honey-combe" is different. The spelling derives from the title of a printed sermon series by John Eaton (1575-1631) The Honey-Combe of Free Justification by Christ Alone.  Eaton wanted the title Honey-combe to serve as a metaphor for his idea of how to communicate his views on the freeness of grace.  Procuring the sweet taste of free-grace commences with “sweet, powerful, forceable Scriptures, as the flowers containing the honey.”  Next the “bees of the Lord’s garden”—the “learned Writer’s”—who “have by faith, sucked and gathered out of the said flowers of Scriptures” and with each “Orthodox and Protestant author” making his own “cellulam” of honey. From this “coherence” of testimony from Scripture and the authorities Eaton built a whole Honey-combe of Free Justification.  

Like Eaton, I intend to join the "bees of the Lord's garden" in order to communicate the sweet taste of God's goodness. I'll do this by exploring the big questions of life: Who is God? How do we relate to him? What is sin? What is grace? And how does this all work out in our lives? By looking to Scripture and those worker-bees that have gone before us, I believe we'll encounter the steadfast love and faithfulness of our Triune God. 

I'm confident these efforts will help us respond to the God who is love and is one in love. Whose love spilled over into creation where the very purpose of humanity was to be in relationship with God through the Spirit.  

This is the sweet honeycomb of God’s goodness!