Author Archives: Matt Jury
The Chief End of Preaching
What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.
D. Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
HT: @preachingtoday
I’d Rather Have Jesus
In memory of George Beverly Shea who went to be with the Lord this past week. This is a great arrangement of one of his signature solos.
It Hasn’t Even Entered Our Imaginations What God Has in Store for the Believer
We have not yet the slightest notion of the tremendous thing that He means to make of us.
HT: @PastorTyler
What It Takes To Preach Christ
It takes a crucified man to preach a crucified Savior.
Come and See
God’s Own Sacrifice Complete
Calvary’s mournful mountain climb;
There adoring at His feet,
Mark that miracle of time —
God’s own sacrifice complete.
Look What Has Come into the World
The early Christians did not say ‘look what the world is coming to!’ but ‘look what has come into the world!’
Perceiving God’s Incomprehensibility
If God cannot be known, neither can he be felt or experienced in any way. All religion is then empty. But modern philosophical agnosticism makes the same error as ancient Gnosticism. By reducing God to “inexpressible depth” and “eternal silence,” they make the universe godless, in the most absolute sense of the word. What it all comes down to is whether God has willed and found a way to reveal himself in the domain of creatures. This, the Christian church and Christian theology affirm, has indeed occurred. Thanks to revelation, we have a true knowledge of God, knowledge that is relative and finite rather than comprehensive. Incomprehensibility does not imply agnosticism but an ingredient of the Christian claim to have received by revelation a specific, limited, yet well-defined and true knowledge of God. In the words of Basil, “The knowledge of God consists in the perception of his incomprehensibility.
Life Is Worship 