A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the publick, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God almighty, that he is and no more.
What Is a Pastor?
Author Archives: Matt Jury
Why Missions?
Down from His Glory
Leaking Hands
I felt when I was coming up to preach tonight as if I had been down like a little child to the sea, and I had stooped to the wave and filled my palms as well as I could with the sparkling water, but as I have been coming to bring it to you, it has nearly all trickled away, for I am not able to hold it by reason of my leaking hands.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) on his preaching
Worship is…
I am reading Dan Lucarini’s book Why I Left the Christian Contemporary Music Movement. He had a great quote on worship. (He probably has other salient points about worship, but I have barely begun to read the book.)
Worship is not looking up and feeling good, it is bowing down and feeling lowly. (p. 56)
When we try to feel an experience of affirmation from worship, we are not worshiping God. We are worshiping our own egos. (pp. 56-57)
He Must Increase; I Must Decrease
Be content to be nothing, for that is what you are. When your emptiness is painfully forced upon your consciousness, chide yourself that you ever dreamed of being full, except in the Lord.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
I Love Books
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
Worship & Politics: Salt and Light
Believers are commanded to be the salt and the light to this world. The political arena in America has never been so tasteless and dark as we see it today. It is time to gather the shakers and beacons from the church pantry and do what we are told [in God’s Word].
Voting Is Worship
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams (1767 – 1848)
A. W. Tozer on American Theology
All things else being equal, the destiny of a man or nation may safely be predicted from the idea of God which that man or nation holds. No nation can rise higher than its conception of God.
A. W. Tozer, The Set of the Sail, p. 38
Life Is Worship 