October 2011
3 posts
“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that...”
– Romans 15:4
Blessed Be Your Name, by Matt Redman. Sung and...
“There’s a place where the streets shine
With the glory of the Lamb....”
– Because of You by Paul Oakley
August 2011
3 posts
“Joy is a great deal more difficult to express than pain…if you look at...”
– French composer Olivier Messiaen
“Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of...”
– Romans 5:18-21
“Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be...”
– Romans 5:9-10
July 2011
1 post
“Suffering is one experience here on earth that we won’t have in heaven....”
January 2011
7 posts
“The doctrine of the Trinity calls us to recognize, and ponder, and rejoice in...”
– Fred Sanders, The Deep Things of God
“This opened secret is the gospel. It has such a profound and divine character...”
– Fred Sanders, The Deep Things of God
“Once it was the blessing, now it is the Lord;
Once it was the feeling, now it...”
– A.B. Simpson, from the hymn, Himself
“He does not give us some thing that makes us blessed, but he blesses us by...”
– Fred Sanders, The Deep Things of God
“In each act of worship, each step of growth, and each blessed experience of...”
– Andrew Murray
“The most subtle idolatry and image-worship is when the soul rests in doctrine,...”
– Adolph Saphir
“When God designed the great and glorious work of recovering fallen man, and the...”
– John Owen
December 2010
1 post
“When Heaven and Earth were yet unmade
When time was yet unknown,
Thou, in Thy...”
– Frederick W. Faber
November 2010
2 posts
Jump!
I knew it wasn’t Everest, But it sure seemed high to me. And though only 5 years old, I shimmied up that tree Halfway up I looked down, It seemed a mile away I still recall the fear I felt, Like it was yesterday Daddy came running, When he heard my cry, And he told me he has his arms open wide Jump! Child I will catch you, I will not let you Slip through my arms, Ohhhhhh Jump! Don’t think about...
Prayer Answered by Crosses
I asked the Lord that I might grow
In faith and love and every grace,
Might more of his salvation know,
And seek more earnestly his face.
‘Twas he who taught me thus to pray;
And he, I trust, has answered prayer;
But it has been in such a way
As almost drove me to despair.
I hoped that, in some favoured hour,
At once he’d answer my request,
And by his love’s constraining power...
October 2010
3 posts
“Both Calvinists and Arminians believe that our actions have real results and...”
– Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
“Calvinists when true to their doctrine will live with a far more comprehensive...”
– Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
“[Calvinists] will also be thankful to God for all the benefits that come to us...”
– Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
September 2010
4 posts
“What sort of man do you want to be? A man obsessed with your own glory, or a man...”
– Gianna Jesson
“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which...”
– Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
“Do you want the world to lose its appeal? Then crowd out worldliness by filling...”
– C.J. Mahaney in his book Worldliness
August 2010
5 posts
If Thou but Suffer God to Guide Thee
If thou but suffer God to guide thee, And hope in him through all thy ways, He’ll give thee strength, wate’er betide thee, And bear thee through the evil days: Who trusts in God’s unchanging love Builds on the rock that naught can move.
What can these anxious cares avail thee, These never-ceasing moans and sighs? What can it help, if thou bewail thee O’er each dark moment as it...
“The bride eyes not her garment,
But her dear bridegroom’s face.
I will...”
– Anne R. Cousin, in the hymn, The Sands of Time Are Sinking
“We imitate God’s blessedness by rejoicing in the creation as it reflects...”
– Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
“So for preachers today that go everywhere but the Bible to find something...”
– John Piper
“For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in...”
– C.S. Lewis
July 2010
1 post
“Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether...”
– Philippians 1:27
June 2010
4 posts
“For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the steadfast love of the Most High...”
– Psalm 21:7
“For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power...”
– 2 Peter 1:16-21
“My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise...”
– Psalm 63:5-8
“But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I...”
– Psalm 3:3-4
April 2010
2 posts
“The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed....”
– Psalm 28:8-9
“Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the...”
– Psalm 105:1-5
March 2010
2 posts
“If our single, all-embracing passion is to make much of Christ in life and...”
– John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life, p. 79
Meditations on Piper's "Don't Waste Your Life" - A...
Lord Jesus, thank you for your blessing and mercy on my life this day. Mercy in that you have not given me what I deserve, but instead have poured out your wrath upon your own Son — Jesus, perfect, sinless — my Savior. Thank you! And blessing in that you are constantly pouring out good things into my life. And blessing even in the bad things that you turn them for good.
This...
February 2010
7 posts
“For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.”
– 1 Corinthians 4:20
“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this...”
– 1 Corinthians 3:18-20
“But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the...”
– 1 Corinthians 2:7-10
“And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the...”
– 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
“For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with...”
– 1 Corinthians 1:17
“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things...”
– Matthew 11:25-30
“I am a safety-first creature. Of all arguments against love none makes so strong...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, pp. 110-112
January 2010
1 post
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son...”
– John 3:36
December 2009
3 posts
“If God then is omniscient, he must have known what Abraham would do, without any...”
– The Problem of Pain, p. 101, via Desiring God
“Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet...”
– 1 John 3:2-3
Proverbs 2
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
For the Lord gives...
October 2009
3 posts
“The predestination of God is indeed in reality a labyrinth, from which the mind...”
– John Calvin on Romans 9