Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: Watch the twists and turns and singularities of your own mind, and the strangeness of your own experience; the depravity of your heart, and the work of divine grace; your tendency to sin, and your capacity for holiness; how akin you are to a devil, and yet how allied […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Indwelling Sin (Spurgeon)Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of Repentance: Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
Read More Today’s Quote – Depravity (Ferguson)The depravity of man is not a subject that is often widely embraced or enjoyed. “Thanks, Pastor, for telling me what a terrible sinner and how awful my condition is,” is not a typical response to the topic of sin and depravity. Yet two truths must be acknowledged — Scripture is unrelenting in its affirmation […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (7/19/09)Jonathan Edwards, quoted in The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards: My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge, or infinite mountains over my head. I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me […]
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