Author Archives: Matt Jury
The Expensive Cost of Leadership
Leading is very likely the most costly thing you will ever do…. But if you want to love God and others, and if you long to live your life now for the sake of eternity, then there is nothing better than being a leader.
O Love Divine
Walking the Talk
Men would sooner believe that the Gospel is from heaven, if they saw more such effects of it upon the hearts and lives of those who profess it.
Growth in Character
Growth in character occurs to the degree that we accept being forgiven as greater than life itself. If the gift is not what I see but how I am seen by God, then my gratitude knows no limits. It can grow immeasurably as I suffer through the loss of illusions, the death of dreams, and the shattering of success.
Men Who Cannot Lead Worship Must Entertain
The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And men who can’t lead the church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Living the Gospel in Daily Life
All of our personal problems and church problems come because we don’t come continually back to the gospel to work it in and live it out.
Preaching Is Worship
The sermon is a present-day revelation of God’s holy will, leading to the searching of the hearer’s soul, and then to the acceptance of the newly revealed truth as it bears on his life among men. Thus the sermon is an act of worship, an act which means that the light of God is shining out today through the pulpit.
“God, If You Would Please Explain Yourself!”
God’s wisdom … is infinite; our is finite. This absolute difference is one that we fail to grasp. We tend to assume we would understand if God would just explain.
Truth Is Knowable
Biblical Christianity is a thinking man’s religion; it is a religion of the mind. It consists of specific truths, and these truths are knowable. We make choices based upon what we know. It is, therefore, crucial to know what we believe and why. It is essential to the work of God’s kingdom to think properly.
Patrick Morley, Seven Seasons of the Man in the Mirror, p. 282
Life Is Worship 