Today’s Quote (9/5/08)

Thomas Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture: What shall we do to be thankful? Answer 1: If you wish to be thankful, get a heart deeply humbled with the sense of your own vileness. A broken heart is the best pipe to sound forth God’s praise.…Answer 2: Strive for sound evidences of God’s love to you. […]

Today’s Quote (9/4/08)

Thomas Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture: A gracious soul is thankful and rejoices that he is drawn nearer to God, though it may be by the cords of affliction.…When God has a rod in his hand, a godly man will have a psalm in his mouth.

The marriage gene?

I unfolded the front section of my newspaper yesterday to find this headline: “Men’s genes may be the key to good fit.” It seems that researchers in Sweden concluded that men with the presence of a particular gene variant (approximately 40% have an extra copy of allele, a variant of a gene that influences brain […]

Today’s Quote (9/3/08)

Thomas Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture: Let me tell you, it is a sin not to rejoice. You disparage your Husband, Christ. When a wife is always sighing and weeping, what will others say? ‘This woman has a bad husband.’ Is this the fruit of Christ’s love to you, to reflect dishonour upon Him? A […]

Today’s Quote (9/2/08)

J. I. Packer, Knowing God: Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. It is an activity of holy thought, consciously performed in the presence of God, under […]

Today’s Quote (9/1/08)

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: It is not what a man does that determines whether or not his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

Do I believe I need to be holy?

This morning, Oswald Chambers’ devotional echoed the themes from the sermons of the last two Sundays: Continually restate to yourself what the purpose of your life is. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. Nowadays we have far too many affinities, we are dissipated with them; right, good, noble affinities […]