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 […]
Read More What grace have you received?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 […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (7/19/09)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 […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worldliness (Murray)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!
Read More Today’s Quote – Sin and Grace (Whitfield)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 […]
Read More Grab BagBlaise Pascal, Pensées: There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous. (HT: CQOD)
Read More Today’s Quote – Sin (Pascal)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 […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Faith (Bonar)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)
Read More Today’s Quote – Resurrection (Gossip)A. W. Pink, The Attributes of God: [The sovereignty of God is] the exercise of His supremacy.…God does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases. None can thwart Him, none can hinder Him. Divine sovereignty means that God is God in fact, as well as in name, that He is on […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Sovereignty (Pink)In writing the previous post about genealogies, I came across the following statement from John Piper. It is a reminder not only of the sovereignty of God over the course of our individual lives (our genealogies), but over the course of all history: The past is a record of setbacks and how people coped with […]
Read More One more thought about genealogies and history…We are in the midst of about 10 days of reading through the book of First Chronicles. Reading through endless lists of names that are difficult to pronounce for the English-speaking tongue and without having any references to any story to the majority of those names makes one wonder: just why does God list these […]
Read More Why genealogies?Kent Hughes, John: That You May Believe: Muggeridge beautifully says, “Christianity, from Golgotha onwards, has been the sanctification of failure.” Peter, the great rock, rose from the rock heap of failure. Our failures bring us face to face with the weaknesses and inadequacies that lie within, so that God’s strength can be made perfect in […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Sanctification (Hughes)Though we would rarely verbalize it this way, at times our actions and attitudes reflect a doubt that God is able to sanctify and change us: “That’s just the way I am — I’ve always been that way, and I always will be that way.” Such an attitude reflects a doubt in the wisdom of […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (7/12/09)John MacArthur, The Pillars of Christian Character: “Spiritual strength for believers is essentially an attitude of courage, and it includes such virtues as courage of conviction, courage to be uncompromising, courage to confront error and false doctrine, and courage to face intimidation and persecution and still remain true to what is right. A strong Christian […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Strength (MacArthur)J. I. Packer, Knowing God: Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting Him, but the width of our knoweldge […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Knowing God (Packer)
