Today’s Quote – Scripture (Boice)

James Montgomery Boice, Living by the Book: [continued from yesterday] Well, the world’s methods may fill churches, just as they can fill stadiums for rock concerts, but work done in that way will be the world’s work, not the work of God. [Psalm 119] tells us that if we would grow in grace and in […]

Having trouble praying?

At the beginning of a new year, we are wont to make resolutions. This will change. This time. It really will. Yet statistics I came across a few years ago have said that within one month, 45% of all people have not kept their resolutions. And only 19% keep their resolutions for as long as […]

Today’s Quote – Scripture (Boice)

James Montgomery Boice, Living by the Book: We live in a day when people do not much value God’s Word, even in evangelical churches. We say that we value it, but our neglect of the Word belies our confession. We do not spend much time in serious Bible study. We do not memorize God’s Word, […]

Today’s Quote – Worship (Frame)

John Frame, Worship in Spirit and Truth: When we are distracted from our covenant Lord and preoccupied with our own comforts and pleasures, something has gone seriously wrong with our worship…when we leave worship, we should first ask not What did I get out of it? but How did I do in my work of […]

500 years of John Calvin

You may have noticed that the first few days of “Today’s Quote” this year have been quotes from John Calvin’s little book John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life. There’s a reason for that. This year (2009) is the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin. One of the goals I have […]

Today’s Quote – Spiritual Progress (Calvin)

John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair because of the smallness of our accomplishment.… The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble. Let […]

Today is an important day

Today is an important day. Twenty-two years ago today, I was living in Dallas and made a trip to the airport to pick up Raye Jeanne, who was living in Washington state at the time. She was coming for a 7-10 day visit between my school semesters. After picking her up, we stopped by the […]

Today’s Quote – Gospel (Calvin)

John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart. Let nominal Christians cease from insulting […]

Today’s Quote – Bible (Calvin)

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 […]

Book Review: The Shack

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 […]

Today’s Quote – Bible (Packer)

J. 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 […]

Today’s Quote – Evangelism (Trotman)

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.

A brief glimpse of Hell

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 […]

Today’s Quote – Evangelism (Baxter)

Richard 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 […]

Today’s Quote – Worship (Giglio)

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 […]