Author Archives: Matt Jury
Performance Based Relationships
We believers are apt to fall into a servile fear if we don’t fully understand the grace of God and His acceptance of us through Christ. If we believe we’re in a performance relationship with God, then He can seem to be a hard taskmaster whom we can never please. We’ll see Him as the divine ogre ready to judge us for even our least failure to live up to His rules.
The Disgrace of Need
Let us not suppose that we bring anything to the Lord but the sheer disgrace of need and emptiness.
The Ministry of Worship
Worship breeds service; indeed, true worship and fervent service are inseparable.
Why Read?
The supreme purpose of reading other books, is solely to increase one’s knowledge of the Book of books. To neglect the Bible for other books is fatal.
The Questions Preaching Must Address
Intoxicated as men are with the secularities of this world, they know, deep down, that they belong to another, and, interesting as the knowledge of this world is, the questions about the other world will always be more fascinating to the spirit of man. Whence am I? What am I? Whither am I going? Unless preaching can answer these questions, we may shut our churches.
God of Heaven
I had the opportunity to attend this concert, and it was a truly Christ-exalting concert.
Life Is Worship 