Today’s Quote – Sin (Piper)

John Piper, Preaching the Cross: Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

Book Review: Biblical Principles of Sex

Title: Biblical Principles of Sex Author: Bob Smith Publisher: Timeless Texts, 2003; 51 pp. $8.00 Recommendation (4-star scale): This week, in our daily Bible reading program, we’ve finished reading the Song of Solomon. Much has been written and preached about this book in recent years — with a new interpretation that is much more literal […]

Today’s Quote – Flesh (Owen)

John Owen, The Mortification of Sin: Lust of the flesh (Rom. 7) will darken the mind, extinguish convictions, dethrone reason, interrupt the power and influence of any considerations that may be brought to hamper it, and through all break into a flame.

How can you identify an unbeliever?

Last Sunday we examined Ephesians 2:1-3, where Paul’s reminder to the Ephesian readers is of all that they were prior to Christ — dead in sin — and how their depravity left them unable to please God in any way. The passage is also a means to identifying unbelievers. How can one determine if one […]

Today’s Quote – Sin (Tozer)

A. W. Tozer, The Knoweldge of the Holy: Sin has many manifestations but its essence is one. A moral being, created to worship before the throne of God, sits on the throne of his own selfhood and from that elevated position declares, “I AM.” that is sin in its concentrated essence; yet because it is […]

By what kind of death will you honor Christ?

We not only forget death, but the fact that we are mortals, as if no word concerning this has ever reached us, and we continue our foolish dream that we are to live forever. If any man in the meantime reminds us of the proverb that man is only a creature of a day, we […]

Today’s Quote – Depravity (Ferguson)

Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of Repentance: Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

What grace have you received?

This morning I read a couple Psalms and an extended section in Hosea. Much of what I read carried the theme of “watch out, judgment is coming” for the nation of Israel. Reading of the coming judgment made parts of Psalm 95 stand out like bold-faced type: Come, let us worship and bow down, Let […]

Sunday Leftovers (7/19/09)

The depravity of man is not a subject that is often widely embraced or enjoyed. “Thanks, Pastor, for telling me what a terrible sinner and how awful my condition is,” is not a typical response to the topic of sin and depravity. Yet two truths must be acknowledged — Scripture is unrelenting in its affirmation […]

Today’s Quote – Worldliness (Murray)

Iain Murray, Evangelicalism Divided: Worldliness is departing from God. It is a man-centered way of thinking. It proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man’s fallen nature. It judges the importance of things by the present and material results. It weighs success by numbers. Worldliness covets human esteem and wants no unpopularity. It knows […]

Today’s Quote – Sin and Grace (Whitfield)

George Whitfield: A sense of my actual sins and natural deformity humbled me exceedingly; and then the freeness and riches of God’s everlasting love broke in with such light and power upon my soul, that I was often awed into silence and could not speak!

Grab Bag

I few ideas and items that have passed through my mind in the past few days: I have been listening to the audio from the recent Resolved Conference. While the conference is designed for college students, the messages are appropriate for everyone. This year’s conference addressed the topic of sin, and the messages are particularly […]

Today’s Quote – Sin (Pascal)

Blaise Pascal, Pensées: There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous. (HT: CQOD)

Today’s Quote – Faith (Bonar)

Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness: [The spiritual life] is ‘believing’ from first to last. We begin, we go on, we end in faith. The faith that justifies is the faith that overcomes (1 John 5:4). By faith we obtain the ‘good report’ both with God and man. By faith we receive forgiveness; by faith we […]

Today’s Quote – Resurrection (Gossip)

A. J. Gossip, In the Secret Place of the Most High: After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable. (HT: CQOD)