Book Review: The Reformation

I’ve always been a reader. In my elementary years, I was caught more than one time by my parents reading in bed by the light of a nearby security light that would provide just-barely adequate reading light if I held my book and the window blind just so. At dinner time I would invariably tote […]

Today’s Quote (10/7/08)

Charles Spurgeon, “Herein is Love:” “Herein is love!” If ever I have coveted powers of speech such as God has committed to some men, powers of thrilling the soul and moving the heart, I covet them to-night, for how can I speak of the wondrous tragedy of the cross? How can I set forth the […]

Today’s Quote (10/6/08)

Steve Lawson, Made in Our Image: The fact that God loves undeserving sinners like you and me is the mystery of all mysteries. Certainly, it is not inconceivable that we should love Him, given the fact that He is so great and glorious. But that He, the great God of heaven and earth, should love […]

Sunday Leftovers (10/5/08)

In 1859, Anna Warner published a little-known book entitled Say and Seal in which one of the characters in the story comforted a dying child by singing a song which had been penned by Anna just for that book. Three years later, William Bradbury came across the book and the song and wrote a tune […]

Today’s Quote (10/5/08)

John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied: Truly God is love. Love is not something adventitious; it is not something that God may choose to be or choose not to be. He is love, and that necessarily, inherently, and eternally. As God is spirit, as he is light, so he is love. Yet it belongs to […]

Controlled by God’s love

May I ask a straight-forward question? Why do you do what you do? That is, what is the motive for your actions? What drives you and compels you? Specifically, when you think about how you serve God, can you also determine why you serve God? Some serve God from a sense of “holy ought.” He […]

Missionary Myths

Christianity Today recently published a brief article debunking a number of myths about missions and missionaries — “Missionary Myths.” Among the myths the article countered were: “There are pressing needs right here.” “Short-termers can do it.” “Let the nationals do it.” “The task has been completed.” “Maybe there are other ways to God.” “Missionaries have […]

Today’s Quote (10/4/08)

Al Mohler, “Preaching With the Culture in View” in Preaching the Cross: “Most Americans believe that their major problem is something that has happened to them, and that their solution is to be found within. In other words, they believe that they have an alien problem that is to be resolved with an inner solution. […]

Today’s Quote (10/3/08)

Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: “It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed; we are to spend and to be spent, not to lay ourselves up in lavender, […]

Today’s Quote (10/2/08)

Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: Dwell in God, brethren; do not occasionally visit Him, but abide in Him. They say in Italy that where the sun does not enter the physician must. Where Jesus does not shine the soul is sick. Bask in His beams and you shall be vigorous in the service of […]

Today’s Quote (10/1/08)

C. J. Mahaney, “The Idol Factory,” Pt. 2 Husband and wife — you desire to have a spouse that relates to you with respect, etc. Is that a wrong desire? No. But it’s not a need. And it can become a lust, if when your spouse doesn’t respond as you desire, you in craving and […]

20 resolutions on taming the tongue

At the recent Desiring God National Conference, Sinclair Ferguson offered these resolutions to controlling the tongue, based on the book of James. For all of us who speak, these are good words to hear before we speak: I resolve to ask God for wisdom to speak out of a single-minded devotion to him. (1:5) I […]

Today’s Quote (9/30/08)

John MacArthur, The Love of God: God loves because He is love; love is essential to who He is. Rather than viewing His love as proof of something worthy in us, we ought to be humbled by it. God’s love for the reprobate is not the love of value; it is the love of pity […]

Today’s Quote (9/29/08)

Stephen Nichols, The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World: Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience. I could not believe that he was placated by my satisfaction. I did not love, yes I hated the righteous […]

America’s economy

I admit it — I don’t understand all the issues surrounding the economic bail-out plan, nor all the factors that led to this crisis (my college economics class was at 7:30 in the morning — not conducive to remembering economic philosophy — and more than 25 years ago!). I have an opinion — like every […]