We have enough Bibles for every household in America a couple of times over. We have churches galore; religious organizations; educational institutions; religious presses that never stop pouring forth books, Sunday school materials, and religious curricula; and unparalleled financial resources. What don’t we have? All too often we don’t have what the Old Testament people [...]
April 2008
Via: Don’t Waste Your Life Podcast
Saving faith looks at the horror of sin, and then looks at the holiness of god, and apprehends spiritually that God’s forgiveness is unspeakably glorious. —John PiperFuture Grace Via: Desiring God
Sometimes I’m asked how I explain the disproportion between the size of the universe and the smallness of man created as the crown of God’s creation. The tension is felt in Psalm 8:3-5. “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, [...]
This message by Dr. R.C. Sproul was included on a CD I received from Ligonier Ministries last week at T4G ’08. Dr. Sproul is one of my heros in the faith and I have learned more about the holiness, sovereignty, and love of God for his creation from him than anyone else. In this postmodern [...]
The sins of the unrepentant will be avenged in hell; the sins of repentant were avenged on the cross. —John PiperFuture Grace Via: Desiring God
Justification by Faith does not mean salvation by believing things instead of by doing right. It means pleading the merits of Christ before the throne of grace instead of our own merits.” —Benjamin Breckinridge WarfieldJustification by Faith, The Christian Irishman, May 1911 Via: Of First Importance
No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross. —John StottThe Cross of Christ Via: Of First Importance
The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for. Some feel they have time but not enough money; others feel they have money but not enough time. But for most of us, in the midst of material plenty, we have spiritual poverty. —Os GuinnessThe [...]
You can get all A’s and still flunk life. —Walker PercyAs quoted by Os Guinness in The Call
