The Reason Why Christ Suffered
Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
HT: Challies.com
Church Attendance Isn’t Optional
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
HT: @BibleMeetsLife
…That to You Is God
What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
HT: @sermonindex
You Are Loved beyond Your Imagination
The slender capacity of man’s heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God’s love toward us.
HT: @PastorTullian
Free Stuff — A Sermon Preached at Cambridge by Rev. Samuel Cooke
Here is an election day sermon preached by the Rev. Samuel Cooke on May 30, 1770. Enjoy the ebook in mobi format!
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A Terrible Place to Be
To me there is nothing more terrible for a preacher than to be in the pulpit alone, without the conscious smile of God.
D. Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
HT: @preachingtoday
We Don’t Need Better Methods
It is not better methods, but better men and women who know their Redeemer from personal experience — men and women who see his vision and feel his passion for the world — men and women who are willing to be nothing so that he might be everything — men and women who want only for Christ to produce his life in and through them according to his own good pleasure. This finally is the way the Master planned for his objective to be realized on the earth, and where it is carried through by his strategy, the gates of hell cannot prevail against the evangelization of the world.
Robert E. Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism (Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2010), 109.
Love and Grace Go Hand in Hand
We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God’s love for you is unconditional, based solely on the merit of Christ, not your performance. John said, ‘We love because He first loved us’ (1 John 4.19). Our love, either to God or to others, can only be a response to His love for us.
Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1991), 132.
Life Is Worship 