Author Archives: Matt Jury
Daily Worship
Music and liturgy can assist or express a worshipping heart, but they cannot make a non-worshipping heart into a worshipping one. The danger is that they can give a non-worshipping heart the sense of having worshiped. So the crucial factor in worship in the church is not the form of worship, but the state of the hearts of the saints. If our corporate worship isn’t the expression of our individual worshipping lives, it is unacceptable.
John MacArthur in Jerry Bridges, The Joy of Fearing God, p. 240
Increasing in Christ
Our faith should and will be an ever-increasing fruition of Christ, accompanied with increasing perception of unreached depths in Him, and increasing longing after enlarged possession of His infinite fullness.
Alexander Maclaren, The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon, p. 437
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The Lamb and the Lion in Missions
In our churches, workplaces, gyms and neighborhoods, we must introduce people to the surpassing mercy of the Lamb so that they do not one day taste the judgment of the Lion.
Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeny, The Beauty of Christ, pp. 94-95
The Lord’s Prayer
Everybody Loves To Watch a Fire
When Wesley was asked, ‘Why do people seem to be so drawn to you, almost like a magnet?’ he answered, ‘Well, you see, when you set yourself on fire, people just love to come and see you burn.’
Preaching Is Worship
There is no worship of God that is better than the hearing of a sermon.
Christ, the Prophet, Priest and King
As Prophet He brings knowledge, i.e. light, delivers the understanding from sin’s darkness, and establishes the kingdom of truth. As Priest He brings the sacrifice, cancels the guilt and thereby the consciousness of guilt, thus delivering the feelings from the crippling pressure of misery and an accusing conscience, and establishes the kingdom of peace and joy. As King He rules the will, guides it in paths of holiness, and establishes the kingdom of love and righteousness.
America, a Sanctuary
The Reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.
The Star Spangled Banner
Life Is Worship 