Author Archives: Matt Jury
Our Only Hope of Life in the Presence of a Holy and Loving God
Truly to grasp that the eternal God, our Maker and Judge, has out of inexpressible grace sent his Son to die the odious death of an abominated criminal in order that we might be forgiven and reconciled to him; that this wise plan was effected by sinful leaders who thought they were controlling events and who were operating out of selfish expediency, while in fact God was bringing about his own good, redemptive purposes; that our only hope of life in the presence of this holy and loving God lies in casting ourselves without reserve on his mercy, receiving in faith the gift of forgiveness purchased at inestimable cost — none of this is possible apart from the work of the Spirit.
D. A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry (Grand Rapids, Mi.: Baker Books, 2003), 66.
Unfair Judgments
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @CHSpurgon
Life Is Worship
Religion is not a thing which it is possible to put off and put on like a Sunday dress…If you think you are doing so, believe me that as yet it is not a religion, but a web of delusions.
Lord of All Hopefulness
The Accent of Hell’s Language
Grumbling is the accent of hell’s language because it’s how a creature’s pride responds to the Creator’s decision to do or allow something that the creature does not desire. Grumbling scorns God because it elevates our desires and judgments above his.
Everything Is Sacred
To a man who lives unto God nothing is secular, everything is sacred.
Stop Arguing and Start Worshipping
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
HT: Challies.com
Everything Has a Purpose
Christians do not allow for meaningless events to take place, because at the heart of the Christian worldview is the idea that everything in history has a purpose in the mind of Almighty God. God is a purposive God; He is not chaotic.
HT: @Ligonier
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
Not only do the heavens declare the glory of God, but every blade of grass and flower in the field, every pebble on the shore and every shell in the ocean proclaim not only his power and goodness, but also his manifold wisdom, so near each one that even by feeling, God can be found. Augustine says, “The prophetic voices excepted, the world itself by its own most regular mutability and mobility and the exquisitely beautiful appearance of all visible things, silently as it were proclaims both that it was made and could be made only by a God unspeakably and invisibly great, and unspeakably and invisibly beautiful.”
You may say perhaps that these things were so arranged by chance and by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. But I know not whether such an impious and absurd opinion is worthy of refutation, since these things denote not chance, but the highest art.
HT: The Old Guys
Life Is Worship 