John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: The law of God contains in itself the dynamic of the new life by which his image is fully restored in us; but by nature we are sluggish, and, therefore, we need to be stimulated, aided in our efforts by a guiding principle. A sincere repentance […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Calvin)Each year I purchase a significant number of books. Most of these are related to Christianity — theologies, commentaries, spiritual life, church history, marriage, counseling, and the like — but I also will purchase other books as well — sports, gardening (for Raye Jeanne), histories, fiction, and books of interest to our girls. But for […]
Read More Book Review: The ShackJ. I. Packer, Knowing God: The whole Bible maintains this insistence that God’s word is His executive instrument in all human affairs. Of Him, as of no one else, it is true that what He says goes. It is in truth the word of God that rules the world, and that fixes our fortunes for […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Bible (Packer)Dawson Trotman, in DTS Alumni Connection: Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know but because of who they know, and how much they want others to know Him.
Read More Today’s Quote – Evangelism (Trotman)Richard Baxter noted that if we were able to glimpse for even a moment the gravity of Hell and the closeness of so many men to it, that we would be greatly emboldened for evangelism. That is, we are shy about declaring the gospel because we do not see it as a great threat to […]
Read More A brief glimpse of HellRichard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, …as Paul’s ‘spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the Athenians wholly given to idolatry,’ so it should cast us into one of his paroxysms, to see so many men in the utmost danger of being everlastingly undone. Methinks, if by faith we did indeed look upon them as […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Evangelism (Baxter)Louie Giglio, The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life: Worship is our response to what we value most.… As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.… Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worship (Giglio)Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.
Read More Today’s Quote – Faithfulness (Brooks)Roy Lessin (unknown book): The Christmas season gives us something to look back to, to look up to, and look forward to. We look back and see a babe in a manager; we look up and see the Lamb upon His throne; we look ahead and see the King coming in all His glory.
Read More Today’s Quote – Christmas (Lessin)Christina Rosetti, in Christianity Today, What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb, If I were a wise man, I would do my part, Yet what can I give Him? Give Him my heart.
Read More Today’s Quote – Christmas (Rosetti)James Montgomery Boice, The Christ of Christmas, If the story were a fable or even an event that merely had happened 2,000 years ago (or even 100 years ago) and then ended, it would have no hold upon us. What does it really matter that somebody died long ago in a far-off land? I have […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Christmas (Boice)Stuart Briscoe, in Christianity Today, The spirit of Christmas needs to be superceded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christ is […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Christmas (Briscoe)Christmas isn’t about babies. Or gifts. Or giving. Or sacrifice. Or thankfulness. Or in songs. Or family. Or tradition. Christmas is about death. More specifically, Christmas is about the death of Christ. That is to say, Christmas is about the gospel. The Christian faith demands clarity about many things. But it demands that we must […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (12/21/08)Charles Colson, A Dangerous Grace, When God wanted to defeat sin, his ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of his own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God’s supreme triumph of good over evil.
Read More Today’s Quote – Christmas (Colson)Martin Luther, For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
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