It is arrogant to say that what I have done and what I am is greater than God’s capacity to love.
Anthony Campolo, It’s Friday, But Sunday’s Comin’, pp. 40-41
Author Archives: Matt Jury
Worship That Empowers
The only sort of public worship which will enable us to meet the needs of our day, and under God, to solve its problems, is that which centers in Christ as the Son of God.
Andrew Blackwood, The Fine Art of Public Worship, p. 50
Is Your Ministry Worthless?
If souls are not won, if saints are not matured, our ministry itself is vain.
Horatius Bonar, Words to Winners of Souls, p. 4
Unbelievable!
We are given an unbelievable mission to take an unbelievable message about an unbelievable Messiah to unbelieving men and make believers out of them.
Our Only Contribution to Our Salvation
The only contribution we make to our justification is our sin which God so graciously forgives.
Lost Joy
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Jan. 21 reading
Worship: The Only Proper Response
Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because He is worthy, delightfully so.
The Pastor Must Also Sit in the Pew
The preacher who sits where young people are until he knows their hearts, their motives and temptations and aspirations, until he is young with them, will be heard by them. The same is true in respect to all persons and classes and groups.
John A. Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 228
The Death of Evangelism
As conversion work doth cease, so religion doth die away; though more insensibly, yet most irrevocably.
Samuel Torrey (1632-1707) in a sermon preached on May 16, 1683 at a church in Boston
We Are All Idol-makers
Every one of us is, even from his mother’s womb, a master craftsman of idols.
Life Is Worship 