John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied: Truly God is love. Love is not something adventitious; it is not something that God may choose to be or choose not to be. He is love, and that necessarily, inherently, and eternally. As God is spirit, as he is light, so he is love. Yet it belongs to […]
Read More Today’s Quote (10/5/08)Al Mohler, “Preaching With the Culture in View” in Preaching the Cross: “Most Americans believe that their major problem is something that has happened to them, and that their solution is to be found within. In other words, they believe that they have an alien problem that is to be resolved with an inner solution. […]
Read More Today’s Quote (10/4/08)Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: “It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed; we are to spend and to be spent, not to lay ourselves up in lavender, […]
Read More Today’s Quote (10/3/08)Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: Dwell in God, brethren; do not occasionally visit Him, but abide in Him. They say in Italy that where the sun does not enter the physician must. Where Jesus does not shine the soul is sick. Bask in His beams and you shall be vigorous in the service of […]
Read More Today’s Quote (10/2/08)C. J. Mahaney, “The Idol Factory,” Pt. 2 Husband and wife — you desire to have a spouse that relates to you with respect, etc. Is that a wrong desire? No. But it’s not a need. And it can become a lust, if when your spouse doesn’t respond as you desire, you in craving and […]
Read More Today’s Quote (10/1/08)John MacArthur, The Love of God: God loves because He is love; love is essential to who He is. Rather than viewing His love as proof of something worthy in us, we ought to be humbled by it. God’s love for the reprobate is not the love of value; it is the love of pity […]
Read More Today’s Quote (9/30/08)Stephen Nichols, The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World: Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience. I could not believe that he was placated by my satisfaction. I did not love, yes I hated the righteous […]
Read More Today’s Quote (9/29/08)Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man: …preaching is an exercise of which many are ambitious, and none more so than those that are the least qualified for it; but it is not so easy a matter to perform this task aright. To stand in the presence of God, and to […]
Read More Today’s Quote (9/28/08)Stephen Nichols, The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World: Luther and the other Reformers cast their vote for unity, but not for unity at all costs. The ecumenical spirit of our age neglects the caution of the Reformers, establishing a Christian unity that is built on the flimsiest theological foundations. Against […]
Read More Today’s Quote (9/27/08)John Piper, Spectacular Sins: All that came into being exists for Christ — that is, everything exists to display the greatness of Christ. Nothing — nothing! — in the universe exists for its own sake, Everything — from the bottom of the oceans to the top of the mountains, from that smallest particle to the […]
Read More Today’s Quote (9/26/08)John Piper, Spectacular Sins: If God ever forsook his supreme allegiance to himself, there would be no grace for us. If he based his kindness to us on our worth, there would be no kindness to us. We are stiff-necked, rebellious, and ungrateful. Free, inmerited grace is our only hope to be otherwise.
Read More Today’s Quote (9/25/08)A. W. Tozer, The Radical Cross: The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world.
Read More Today’s Quote (9/24/08)A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy: The certainty that God is always near us, present in all parts of His world, closer to us than our thoughts, should maintain us in a state of high moral happiness most of the time. But not all the time. It would be less than honest to […]
Read More Today’s Quote (9/23/08)Charles H. Spurgeon, Counsel for Christian Workers: Christ’s servants delight to give so much as to be thought wasteful, for they feel that when they have in the judgment of others done extravagantly for Christ, they have but begun to show their heart’s love for His dear name.
Read More Today’s Quote (9/22/08)Thabiti Anyabwile, What is a Healthy Church Member?: …it may be the case that the most chronic problem facing churches and Christians is the lack of consistent spiritual growth and progress in discipleship. …we must clarify what growth is and is not. Ours is a superficial culture that lays emphasis on the outward signs and […]
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Words of Grace 