One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.
Robert E. Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism (Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2010), 39.
Author Archives: Matt Jury
Life Is Worship
All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
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Prayer as a Means of Grace
You cannot tell what the secret purposes of God are, but you know that God has appointed prayer as the means of obtaining good and averting evil. If you neglect the means which he has directed you to use, you have no reason to expect the blessing which you desire: but if you are induced by his grace to use the means, it is a good sign that you are likely to obtain the desired end.
John Newton’s Word to Pastors
Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.
HT: Miscellanies
To Live or Die
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Most men hope to go to heaven when they die, but few, it may be feared, take the trouble to consider whether they would enjoy heaven if they got there. Heaven is essentially a holy place; its inhabitants are all holy; its occupations are all holy. To be really happy in heaven it is clear and plain that we must be somewhat trained and made ready for heaven while we are on earth…. No man can possibly be in a place where he is not in his element, and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character. When an eagle is happy in an iron cage, when a sheep is happy in the water, when an owl is happy in a blaze of noonday sun, when a fish is happy in the dry land — then, and not till then will I admit that the unsanctified man could be happy in heaven.
J. C. Ryle, Holiness (Carlisle, PA: Evangelical Press, 2011), 22-23.
The Kind of Saviour We Have
It is not our sin that makes us weep; it is when we see what kind of Saviour we have sinned against.
James Stalker, The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966), 32.
Imprecatory Prayers
Difficulty is felt today with biblical prayers that God will take vengeance, partly because of their Oriental exuberance of expression, which to us sounds like bloodthirstiness and gloating (imagining detail about anyone’s evil prospects is culturally unacceptable to Westerners), but mainly because the pure zeal for God’s glory that these prayers express is foreign to our spiritually sluggish hearts.
J. I. Packer, A Passion for Faithfulness (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1995), 101.
The First Evidence of the Holy Spirit’s Work
Repentance is always the first visible evidence of the Holy Spirit’s presence and activity.
An Unfolding, All-encompassing Drama
God’s glory is so grand that no less a stage than the universe — all that is or was and will be, across space and through time — is necessary for the unfolding of this all-encompassing drama.
Jim Hamilton, God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment, p. 53.
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