Randy Alcorn, Heaven: Satan need not convince us that Heaven doesn’t exist. He need only convince us that Heaven is a place of boring, unearthly existence. If we believe that lie, we’ll be robbed of our joy and anticipation, we’ll set our minds on this life and not the next, and we won’te be motivated […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Heaven (Alcorn)James Montgomery Boice, Living by the Book: [continued from yesterday] Well, the world’s methods may fill churches, just as they can fill stadiums for rock concerts, but work done in that way will be the world’s work, not the work of God. [Psalm 119] tells us that if we would grow in grace and in […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (Boice)James Montgomery Boice, Living by the Book: We live in a day when people do not much value God’s Word, even in evangelical churches. We say that we value it, but our neglect of the Word belies our confession. We do not spend much time in serious Bible study. We do not memorize God’s Word, […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (Boice)John Frame, Worship in Spirit and Truth: When we are distracted from our covenant Lord and preoccupied with our own comforts and pleasures, something has gone seriously wrong with our worship…when we leave worship, we should first ask not What did I get out of it? but How did I do in my work of […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worship (Frame)John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair because of the smallness of our accomplishment.… The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble. Let […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Spiritual Progress (Calvin)John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart. Let nominal Christians cease from insulting […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Gospel (Calvin)John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: The law of God contains in itself the dynamic of the new life by which his image is fully restored in us; but by nature we are sluggish, and, therefore, we need to be stimulated, aided in our efforts by a guiding principle. A sincere repentance […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Calvin)J. I. Packer, Knowing God: The whole Bible maintains this insistence that God’s word is His executive instrument in all human affairs. Of Him, as of no one else, it is true that what He says goes. It is in truth the word of God that rules the world, and that fixes our fortunes for […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Packer)Dawson Trotman, in DTS Alumni Connection: Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know but because of who they know, and how much they want others to know Him.
Read More Today’s Quote – Evangelism (Trotman)Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, …as Paul’s ‘spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the Athenians wholly given to idolatry,’ so it should cast us into one of his paroxysms, to see so many men in the utmost danger of being everlastingly undone. Methinks, if by faith we did indeed look upon them as […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Evangelism (Baxter)Louie Giglio, The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life: Worship is our response to what we value most.… As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.… Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worship (Giglio)Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.
Read More Today’s Quote – Faithfulness (Brooks)Roy Lessin (unknown book): The Christmas season gives us something to look back to, to look up to, and look forward to. We look back and see a babe in a manager; we look up and see the Lamb upon His throne; we look ahead and see the King coming in all His glory.
Read More Today’s Quote – Christmas (Lessin)Christina Rosetti, in Christianity Today, What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb, If I were a wise man, I would do my part, Yet what can I give Him? Give Him my heart.
Read More Today’s Quote – Christmas (Rosetti)James Montgomery Boice, The Christ of Christmas, If the story were a fable or even an event that merely had happened 2,000 years ago (or even 100 years ago) and then ended, it would have no hold upon us. What does it really matter that somebody died long ago in a far-off land? I have […]
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