Today’s Quote – Depravity (Edwards)

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 […]

Today’s Quote – God’s Wrath (Mahaney)

C. J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Not only will He leave nothing in that cup of wrath for us to drink…but today you and I find ourselves with another cup in our hands. It’s the cup of salvation. From this precious new cup we find ourselves drinking and drinking — drinking consistently, drinking […]

Today’s Quote – Worship (Ferguson)

Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of Repentance: Worship is increasingly becoming a spectator event of visual and sensory power, rather than a verbal event in which we engage in a deep soul dialogue with the Triune God.… There was a time when four simple words were enough to bring out goose bumps on the neck of […]

Today’s Quote – Common Grace (Frame)

John Frame, The Doctrine of God: God prevents fallen men from doing all the wrong they could do. He places a mark on Cain, so that others will not take his life (Gen. 4;15). He confuses the languages of men during the building of the tower of Babel, lest “nothing they plan to do will […]

Today’s Quote – Righteousness (MacArthur)

John MacArthur, Matthew 1-7: When our spiritual hunger and thirst are genuine they will make no conditions; they will seek and accept God’s righteousness in whatever way He chooses to provide it and will obey His commands no matter how demanding they may be. The least of God’s righteousness is more valuable than the greatest […]

Today’s Quote – Parenting (Augustine)

Augustine (quoted in Discipleship Journal): Do not imagine that you love your children when you never discipline them, or that you do not [sic] love your neighbors when you never admonish them. This is not love but mere weakness. Let your love be eager to correct, to reform. If there is good behavior, let it […]

Today’s Quote – Idolatry (Guinness & Seel)

Os Guinness and John Seel, No God But God: …idols will inevitably involve self-centeredness, self-inflation, and self-deception. Idolatry begins with the counterfeiting of God, because only with a counterfeit of God can people remain the center of their lives and loyalties, autonomous architects of their futures. Something within creation will then be idolatrously inflated to […]

Today’s Quote – Worship (Frame)

John Frame, Worship in Spirit and Truth: …worship is honoring someone superior to ourselves. It is therefore not pleasing ourselves, but pleasing someone else. Immediately the question How can worship be made better? has a focus: better not primarily for ourselves, but better for the one we seek to honor. It may be that worship […]

Today’s Quote – Idolatry (Calvin)

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1.11.8): …man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.…Man’s mind, full as it is of pride and boldness, dares to imagine a god according to its own capacity; as it sluggishly plods, indeed is overwhelmed with the crassest ignorance, it conceives an unreality and an […]

Today’s Quote – Restoration (Sibbes)

Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed: When we find our souls at all declining, it is best to raise them up presently by some awakening meditations, such as the presence of God, of the strict reckoning we are to make,of the infinite love of God in Christ and the fruits of it, of the excellency of […]

Today’s Quote – Spirituality (Lawson)

Steve Lawson, The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards: [Jonathan] Edwards possessed a rare combination of Reformed theology, extraordinary giftedness, and fervent piety. However, it was this latter virtue — his true spirituality, marked by a fixed resolve — that positioned him to be used so mightily by God. Few have equaled his relentless pursuit of […]

Today’s Quote – God’s Names (Bavinck)

Herman Bavinck, The Doctrine of God: …the names which we use in mentioning and addressing God are not arbitrary: they are not the mere inventions of our mind. Rather, it is God himself who in nature and in grace reveals himself consciously and freely, who gives us the right to name him on the ground […]

Today’s Quote – Teachability (Anyabwile)

Thabiti Anyabwile, What is a Healthy Church Member?: …[in] the preaching of God’s Word and in Bible study, Christians should remain lowly and gentle before the Scripture, acknowleding it as the source of salvation and are to do so as people knowing our sinful nature, our spiritual poverty before God, and our need for the […]

Today’s Quote – Conviction (Stott)

John Stott, Authentic Christianity: We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never […]

Today’s Quote – Worship (Hughes)

R. Kent Hughes, John: That You May Believe: Irreverence toward God is only a symptom of an idolatrous image of God that is man-made. Dry ritualism indicates that our God is far away and dead. Joyless performance reveals an arid Deity. But on the other hand, reverence for God indicates our belief that he is […]