Charles H. Spurgeon, All of Grace: Trust is the lifeblood of faith; there is no saving faith without it. The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word “recumbency.” It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Faith (Spurgeon)John Piper, Battling Unbelief: The test of whether our kind of faith is the kind of faith that justified is whether it is the kind of faith that sanctifies. These are not two different kinds of faith. Both embrace Christ who bore our punishment, provided our righteousness, and promises to meet every need to the […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Faith (Piper)John Piper, “Preaching as Worship:” Jesus described faith this way in John 6:35 — “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.” Believing in Jesus means coming to him for the quenching of our soul’s thirst. Faith in Christ is […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Faith (Piper)Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness: [The spiritual life] is ‘believing’ from first to last. We begin, we go on, we end in faith. The faith that justifies is the faith that overcomes (1 John 5:4). By faith we obtain the ‘good report’ both with God and man. By faith we receive forgiveness; by faith we […]
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