To reveal God to men; and to direct men to come to the enjoyment of God. These are the only two great concerns of our nature.
HT: @JohnPiper
Category Archives: John Owen
What Is Holiness?
Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls.
HT: @CSLCHSnMore
Jesus Values Believers
He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, — because he values believers.
What can more, what can farther be spoken? How little is the depth of that which is spoken fathomed! How unable are we to look into the mysterious recesses of it! He so loves, so values his saints, as that, having from eternity undertaken to bring them to God, he rejoices his soul in the thoughts of it; and pursues his design through heaven and hell, life and death, by suffering and doing, in mercy and with power; and ceaseth not until he bring it to perfection.
John Owen, Communion with God (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 2004), 139.
The Pastor’s First Duty
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the Word.
HT: @tc4cp
Rudderless in a Sea of Conflicting Ideas
Without ‘absolutes’ revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice, and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers. We could never know who God is, how He is to be worshipped, or wherein true happiness lies. If virtue is sought … as a road to temporal happiness, the striving and the progress starts and ends in self — but selfishness is itself a vice! No attitude of mind which does not acknowledge dependence upon Almighty God and seek to glorify Him has any element of good or virtue in it.
Every Man Is Tempted…
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
HT: challies.com
Life Is Worship 