Today’s Quote – Sin and Grace (Mahaney)

C. J. Mahaney, Living the Cross-Centered Life: When you’re deeply aware of your sin, and of what an affront it is to God’s holiness, and of how impossible it is for Him to respond to this sin with anything other than furious wrath — you can only be overwhelmed with how amazing grace is. Only […]

Today’s Quote – Cheap Grace (Bonhoeffer)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship: Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.…The only man who has the right to say he is justified […]

Take heed

The chair was moved away from the table. A mother’s head peeked around the corner and saw that it had been pushed against the counter and used as a stepping stool for a pair of three-year-old legs. The quest was the cookie jar. And at just the most inopportune moment, with his teeth crunching excitedly […]

Today’s Quote – Grace (Tozer)

A. W. Tozer, The Radical Cross: You’ll never run into a stratum in God that is hard. You’ll always find God gracious, at all times and toward all peoples forever. You’ll never run into any meanness in God, never any resentment or rancor or ill will, for there is none there. God has no ill […]

Building sanctified memories

Memories. The first day of school. The first date with your wife. The night your child was born. The funeral of your best friend. The aching regret of a mistake — a sin — that cannot be undone. Water skiing on the lake with friends. The smell of hot-dogs and popcorn that takes you in […]

Today’s Quote – Keeping the Faith (Machen)

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism: The type of religion which rejoices in pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from “controversial” matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life. In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men agree are apt to be the […]

Today’s Quote – Sanctified Memory (Lloyd-Jones)

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: …you and I must never look at our past lives; we must never look at any sin in our past life in any way except that which leads us to praise God and to magnify His grace in Christ Jesus. I challenge you to do that. If you look at your […]

Today’s Quote – Sorrow and Joy (Lloyd-Jones)

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no […]

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.