The pulpit is the throne of the Word of God. It is not a runway for your fashion show.
HT: @President_Roy
Author Archives: Matt Jury
Come to the Water
Faith Is Lived Consistently
Christian faith isn’t so much what you say you believe but how you behave in a consistent manner.
HT: @TozerAW
Going Backward in Order to Go Forward Better
Christ’s work, both in the Church and in the hearts of Christians, often goes backward so that it may go forward better. As seed rots in the ground in the winter time, but after comes up better, and the harder the winter the more flourishing the spring, so we learn to stand by falls, and get strength by weakness discovered…. We take deeper root by shaking. And, as torches flame brighter by moving, thus it pleases Christ, out of His freedom, in this manner to maintain His government in us. Let us herein labour to exercise our faith, so that it may answer Christ’s way of dealing with us. When we are foiled, let us believe we shall overcome when we have fallen, let us believe we shall rise again.
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2011), 95.
Legalism = Conditional Love
Divine love made conditional upon human obedience is mere legalism, even if the actions commended have biblical precedent. The only obedience approved by God is that which He Himself enables and sanctifies through the union with Christ He provides.
Brian Chapell, Christ-centered Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005), 287
Love Your Neighbors
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours and also to love our enemies; probably because they are often the same people.
HT: @andygbannister
Preaching Is…
Preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.
HT: @TGC
Not I, but Christ
God Set Eternity in Our Hearts
God has set eternity in our heart, and man’s infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense.
HT: @sermonindex
Truth Doesn’t Depend on Belief to Be True
The Bible’s truth does not depend in any way on whether a person believes the truth.
HT: @Ligonier
Life Is Worship 