Book Review: John Calvin

Title: John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology Editor: Burk Parsons Contributors Include: Jay Adams, Jerry Bridges, Sinclair Ferguson, Michael Horton, Steve Lawson, John MacArthur, Philip Ryken Publisher: Reformation Trust, 2008; 257 pp. $19.00 Recommendation (4-star scale): This year, in honor of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth, I have focused more […]

Today’s Quote – One Another (Harris)

Josh Harris, Stop Dating the Church: The longer I’m a Christian, the more aware I become that I cannot live the Christian life on my own. My individual and direct relationship with God through Jesus is the greatest privilege and He is truly all I need — and yet God in His wisdom has created […]

Today’s Quote – Sanctification (Hughes)

Kent Hughes, John: That You May Believe: Muggeridge beautifully says, “Christianity, from Golgotha onwards, has been the sanctification of failure.” Peter, the great rock, rose from the rock heap of failure. Our failures bring us face to face with the weaknesses and inadequacies that lie within, so that God’s strength can be made perfect in […]

Today’s quote (8/29/08)

J. C. Ryle, Holiness: When people talk of having received “…a blessing” and of having found “the higher life,” after hearing some earnest advocate of “holiness by faith and self-consecration,” while their families and friends see no improvement and no increased sanctity in their daily tempers and behaviour, immense harm is done to the cause […]

Questions to sanctify your life

In this morning’s devotional, Oswald Chambers asks a number of helpful questions to stimulate sanctification in our lives: When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost an intense […]

Sunday Leftovers (1/7/07 )

“Sanctification” has the basic meaning of being set apart or dedicated to God on the basis of the atoning work of Christ. While God sees believers in Christ as being fully righteous (2 Cor. 5:21), sanctification most often refers to the process of the believer progressively working out his salvation so that he is increasingly […]