Your delight and readiness in the paths of obedience is the very measure of your sanctification.
Author Archives: Matt Jury
Worship Is the Gift of God’s Grace
It is God’s wonderful kindness to the fallen race of humanity that He has willed that all of the knowledge needful for an awareness of Him, and for correct worship of Him, should be provided by Him and proceed from Himself, lest we be left to stumble on in our own blindness.
John Owen, Biblical Theology, p. 16
A Bibliography of the Fruit of the Spirit
Here is a short bibliography on the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5. Feel free to add books in the comments section of this post.
William Barclay — Flesh and Spirit
W. Y. Fullerton — The Christly Life (Fullerton was Spurgeon’s assistant)
W. Phillip Keller — A Gardener Looks at the Fruit of the Spirit
Alexander Maclaren — Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians (chaps 7 to end), Galatians, and Philippians
Delusions of Grandeur
We each have endless capacity for self-deception and are notoriously biased in our own favor. Because of that, we will never come to an experience of inner cleanness and full restoration until we come to the place of complete honesty before God.
J. Oswald Sanders, Enjoying Intimacy with God, p. 62
Evangelism: The Natural Response
Evangelism is the natural response of a heart that sees God as supreme.
Jim Berg, Created for His Glory, p. 38
Christ Prays for Me!
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.
Worship Breeds Worship
Contemplation of God generates worship; worship of God heightens contemplation of God. The more we contemplate Him, the more impressed we must be by Him, and consequently, the more we are moved to worship Him. Worship breeds worship.
Michael P. V. Barrett, The Beauty of Holiness, p. 60
The Sobering Reality of Leadership
Whatever the leaders are, the people become. . . . People will not rise above the spiritual level of their leadership.
John MacArthur, The Book on Leadership, p. 176
Why Is the Church’s Passion for Missions So Weak?
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad, p. 18
The Place of the Cross in Our Lives
Without the Cross in our Gospel, without the Cross at the heart of our preaching, without the Cross centrally enthroned in our lives, there is no hope.
Edward Jeffries Rees, Christ Speaks from Calvary, p. 12
Life Is Worship 