Author Archives: Matt Jury
The Best Adoration
To call on God is the best adoration. The cry of a soul, conscious of emptiness and need, and convinced of His fulness and of the love which is the soul of His power, is never in vain.
Alexander Maclaren. The Psalms Vol. III. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894.
Looking at the Ocean from the Beach
Understanding grace is like looking at the ocean from the beach: there’s so much more of the ocean that you don’t see than you do see.
Ministry Is God-given
Since ministry is God-given, we can neither take credit for it nor insist that it continue.
Erwin Lutzer, Pastor to Pastor (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1998), 20.
Be unto Your Name
Changes Happens When We Worship
No one ever truly comes to know, honor, praise, or glorify God without being changed in the process.
The Root of Godliness
Prayer – secret, fervent, believing prayer – lies at the root of all personal godliness.
Mercy Is Shown and Declared
Untamed human nature defends itself. It rouses itself against the judgments of God and becomes embittered. But he who condemns himself is open to the grace of God. To such all mercy is shown and declared.
Twice Loved and Twice Owned
In God’s jurisdiction, esteem and identity are not bought but imbued. We are twice love and twice owned. God made us, and then bought us at a price. It is from those events, creation and redemption, that a sense of our enormous value and distinctiveness as Christians is derived. In Christ, our fallen nature is restored and our fragile identity is reestablished. We are declared ‘God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved’ (Col. 3.12).
David W. Henderson, Culture Shift (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998), 65.
Life Is Worship 