Yesterday I interacted with two stories relating to the nature of saving faith. When a man is genuinely saved, the fruit of that salvation will be evidenced in his life. That is, empowered by the Holy Spirit, he will be changed so that while prior to salvation he could do nothing good, now after salvation […]
Read More Faith and worksJohn Piper, What Jesus Demands from the World: When Jesus calls us to let our light shine that others may see our good deeds and glorify God, he is calling us to join him in the work he came to do. And just as he pursued the glory of his Father through his final act […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Good Works (Piper)Stephen Charnock, A Puritan Golden Treasury: All our works before repentance are dead works (Hebrews 6:1). And these works have no true beauty in them, with whatsoever gloss they may appear to a natural eye. A dead body may have something of the features and beauty of a living, but it is but the beauty […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Good Works (Charnock)Daniel Cawdray, in A Puritan Golden Treasury: As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it: even so good works are not the cause of our salvation, but a sign and a fruit of the same.
Read More Today’s Quote – Good Works (Cawdray)Charles Spurgeon, “Separating the Precious from the Vile:” Never were there good times when the Church and the world were joined in marriage with one another.…The more the Church is distinct from the world in her acts and in her maxims, the more true is her testimony for Christ, and the more potent is her […]
Read More Today’s Quote (10/22/08)
Words of Grace 