Author Archives: Matt Jury
Prayer and Knowing What God Knows
We can be sure our prayers are answered precisely in the way we would want them to be answered if we knew everything God knows.
HT: Challies.com
Thy Way, Not Mine, O Lord
The Tree of Calvary
The cross of Christ is the tree of life and the tree of knowledge combined.
HT: Miscellanies
If I Don’t Have Love, I’m a Cymbal Solo
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
HT: @sermonindex
A Life Permeated with Christ
God’s programme is that the whole of life should be permeated with Christ.
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State Neutrality
School starts today in our school district. In honor of this day, here is a post from Ronald Reagan.
Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted if religious exercises are held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an artificial and state-created disadvantage… Refusal to permit religious exercises is seen not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.
Do You Know Christ, or Do You Just Know a Lot about Him?
It is well to be acquainted with all the doctrines and principles of Christianity. It is better to be acquainted with Christ Himself. It is well to be familiar with faith, and grace, and justification, and sanctification. They are all matters pertaining to the King. But it is far better to be familiar with Jesus Himself, to see the King’s own face, and to behold His beauty.
O Lord, Our Lord
True Repentance
True repentance is not the mere honor and excitement of a terrified conscience: it is the call of God; it is letting go the evil because the good has prevailed; it includes faith as well as fear.
James Stalker, The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966), 78.
Life Is Worship 