Take up Your Cross

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Matt Jury under D. T. Niles

We often read in the Gospels that Jesus asked His disciples to carry their cross and follow Him (Matt. 16.24). The Cross is not the difficulties we meet on the road of our discipleship. It is not poverty or sickness or antagonism. The Cross is the burden we bear because in Jesus’ name we keep on loving those who do not want us to love them.

D. T. Niles, The Preacher’s Task and the Stone of Stumbling, p. 53

What the Cross Teaches Us

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Matt Jury under Richard Wurmbrand

By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God’s love towards men.

Richard Wurmbrand, If That Were Christ, Would You Give Him Your Blanket?, p. 40

Look to the Cross

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Matt Jury under J. C. Ryle

Look to the cross; think of the cross; meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)

The Most Significant Event in History

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Matt Jury under Frederick S. Leahy

The cross of Christ stands in Scripture as the pivot on which all history turns.

Frederick S. Leahy, Is It Nothing to You?, p. x

The Preacher and Prayer

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Matt Jury under Video

I belong to a pastor’s fellowship in my area. My church hosted the fellowship on this past Tuesday. Part of the emphasis of the fellowship was on prayer. The video below is a collection of quotes concerning the preacher and his prayer life. This video was shown as part of the fellowship.

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God Alone Defines Worship

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Matt Jury under John Owen

God has, in no way and at no time, from the foundation of the world, allowed human judgment to give His worship its limits or measure.

John Owen, Biblical Theology, p. 434

The Depth of Your Ministry

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Matt Jury under Bruce McAllister

The depth of your ministry is more important than the breadth of your ministry.

Bruce McAllister

Sensing the Worth of a Soul

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Matt Jury under Richard Baxter

If you have no sense of the worth of souls, and of the preciousness of that blood which was shed for them, and of the glory to which they are going, and of the misery of which they are in danger, you are not Christians.

Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, p. 219

Day by Day

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Matt Jury under Music, Video

His Eyes Were As a Flame of Fire

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Matt Jury under Robert Johnstone

No man can look at Christ upon the cross without seeing the eyes of the Son of God — ‘eyes that are as a flame of fire’ — penetrating, burning into his very soul.

Robert Johnstone, The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, p. 192

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Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. (Psalm 29.2)

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