When I was four or five years old, it was not uncommon for me to ask my mother if I could use a table knife for a few minutes. I would take the knife to my bedroom, grab my green ceramic piggy bank, hop on my bed and carefully use the knife to extract the […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (4/5/09)Title: Let Christ Be Magnified Author: J. H. Merle d’Aubigne Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust (Reprint), 2007; 52 pp. $9.00 Recommendation (4-star scale): This being the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin’s birth, there are no shortage of books being written or re-released in tribute to him. I think I’ve acquired at […]
Read More Book Review: Let Christ Be MagnifiedRichard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed: All sin is either from false principles, or ignorance, or thoughtlessness, or unbelief of what is true.…It is good, therefore, to store up true principles in our hearts, and to refresh them often, that, in virtue of them, our affections and actions may be more vigorous.
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (Sibbes)John Piper, When I Don’t Desire God: We need the Word of God not only to see God in the Word, but to see him rightly everywhere else.
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (Piper)Ken Sande, The Peacemaker: Forgiveness can be a costly activity. When you cancel a debt, it does not just simply disappear. Instead, you absorb a liability that someone else deserves to pay. Similarly, forgiveness requires that you absorb certain effects of another person’s sins and you release that person from liability to punishment. This is […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Forgiveness (Sande)Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices: It is not the hearing of truth, nor the knowing of truth, nor the commending of truth, nor the talking of truth, but the indwelling of truth in your souls, that will keep your judgments chaste and sound, in the midst of all those glittering errors that betray […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (Brooks)What is the last thing you might tell your teenager as he is about to leave for his first semester of college? What is the last thing you might tell your employees before you leave for a new opportunity? What is the last thing you tell long-time neighbors before you leave the neighborhood? What is […]
Read More This is not an idle wordDave Harvey, When Sinners Say “I Do”: Marriage is joined upon a field of great spiritual battles. But it rests within a war that is already won. Our real oppontent is not on the opposite side of the bed, but within our hearts. Our enemy is the desires of our flesh that oppose the desires […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Marriage (Harvey)Dave Harvey, When Sinners Say “I Do”: To be suspicious of my own heart is to acknowledge two things: that my heart has a central role in my behavior, and that my heart has a permanent tendency to oppose God and his ways.
Read More Today’s Quote – Self-Examination (Harvey)Title: When Sinners Say “I Do” Author: Dave Harvey Publisher: Shepherd Press, 2007; 189 pp. $13.95 Recommendation (4-star scale): While performing a wedding recently, I said something that has become a common refrain for me: “I wish I could tell you that the excitement, anticipation, and thrill you feel towards each other now will endure […]
Read More Book Review: When Sinners Say “I Do”J. I. Packer, Knowing God: What were we made for? What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the “eternal life” that Jesus give? Knowledge of God. “This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3). What […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Knowing God (Packer)Fear of leaving the love of God might leave some thinking that the attention to doctrine practiced by the Ephesians is detrimental to a passionate, heart-filled following of Christ (I have a friend who leans in that direction). Yet, John Piper this week made “A Plea for Heart Devotions and Head Study.” It is a […]
Read More Head and heartJohn MacArthur, Our Sufficiency in Christ: You’ll never know what the Word can do if you don’t study and apply it. It isn’t enough to simply say you believe it. It must occupy an exalted place in your life. Since God Himself exalts and magnifies it (Ps. 138:2), how much more should we?
Read More Today’s Quote – Scripture (MacArthur)Gene Getz, Sharpening the Focus of the Church: Experience has demonstrated beyond doubt that knowing does not automatically lead to doing.…A Christian can know many things about God without sensing His greatness, His power, His riches, and His grace, without being moved by the marvel and wonder of it all.…In short, it is possible to […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Knowledge (Getz)J. Oswald Sanders, Enjoying Intimacy with God: All spiritual ministry flows from the reality of our knowledge of God and the vitality of our fellowship with Him and His Son.
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