Thomas Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture: A godly man shows his love for the written Word of God — by diligently reading it (Acts 17:11; 18:12) by frequently meditating on it (Ps. 119:97) by delighting in it — it is his recreation (Jer. 15:16) by hiding it (Ps. 119:11) by defending it (Ps. 119:111; Rev. […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Love of Scripture (Watson)Continuing the thought from Sunday’s sermon on Psalm 119, and the significance of meditating on the word of God, here are several resources that I have found helpful in thinking about and being encouraged in Scripture memory: Justin Taylor, “Meditating on God’s Word” Don Whitney’s resources on meditation John Piper, “If My Words Abide in […]
Read More Scripture memory and meditationCharles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Happy are we to have God’s Word always to guide us! What were the mariner without his compass? And what were the Christian without the Bible? This is the unerring chart, the map in which every shoal is described, and all the channels from the quicksands of destruction to the […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Spurgeon)Jonathan Edwards, “The Scripture is the Word of God:” …if you let the Word of God alone, and never use [it],…you can’t expect the benefits of it…you must not only hear and read, etc., but you must have it sunk down in your heart. Believe. Be affected. Love the Word of God. Written in your […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Edwards)It is easy to presume that Psalm 119 is only about Scripture — a defense of the authority and power of God’s Word. It is. And it isn’t. Psalm 119 is also about the love the writer has for God’s Word. The entire psalm reflects the happiness of a man in love with God. There […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (1/11/09)Charles Bridges, Psalm 119: Then let me begin my morning with the inquiry, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”…Let me trade with all my talents for thee: ever watchful, that I may be employed in thy work; setting a guard upon my thoughts, my lips, my tempers, my pursuits, that nothing may hinder, […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Obedience (C. Bridges)In our weekly Bible reading plan, today is a day of reflection. As I think back over the passages we’ve read in the past week (Genesis 1-17; Ps. 1-6), it is sobering how rapidly the story of sin progresses. Just think through the major narrative stories in these first chapters in Genesis: Genesis 3 — […]
Read More Bible reading reflectionsJohn Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: The law of God contains in itself the dynamic of the new life by which his image is fully restored in us; but by nature we are sluggish, and, therefore, we need to be stimulated, aided in our efforts by a guiding principle. A sincere repentance […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Calvin)J. I. Packer, Knowing God: The whole Bible maintains this insistence that God’s word is His executive instrument in all human affairs. Of Him, as of no one else, it is true that what He says goes. It is in truth the word of God that rules the world, and that fixes our fortunes for […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Packer)He knows. I know he knows. At least I thought he knew. My friend Ned has eyes that not only see you, but pierce you. They don’t blink. They don’t wander. They cut through you and seem to examine your heart. And so it was that when I met him my first thought was, “He […]
Read More God knows“The Cambridge Declaration:” Scripture must take us beyond our perceived needs to our real needs and liberate us from seeing ourselves through the seductive images, cliches, promises and priorities of mass culture. It is only in the light of God’s truth that we understand ourselves aright and see God’s provision for our need. The Bible, […]
Read More Today’s Quote (9/8/08)Howard Hendricks, Living by the Book: The mark of spiritual maturity is not how much you understand [of Scripture], but how much you use. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge but obedience.
Read More Today’s Quote (9/7/08)A few more thoughts (from people who said it better than me) about the Bible (these are “leftovers” from the theology Bible Institute class last night): “I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.” [John Wesley.] “Contemporary evangelicalism has been beguiled and sabotaged by a ruinous lack of confidence […]
Read More A few more thoughts about the BibleIn his most recent sermon, “Songs that Shape the Heart and Mind,” John Piper notes the variety of emotions that are contained in Psalms — one of the reasons that we are all drawn to them, whether glad or sad: One of the reasons the Psalms are deeply loved by so many Christians is that […]
Read More Why we like the PsalmsR. C. Trench — Lord, what a change within us one short hourSpent in Thy presence will prevail to make!What heavy burdens from our bosoms take, What parched ground refresh as with a shower!We kneel, and all around us seems to lower;We rise, and all, the distant and the near,Stands forth in sunny outline brave […]
Read More The transforming power of Scripture
