God Is Not Almost Sovereign

Posted on by under Jerry Bridges

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases, and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

HT: Reformed Quotes

The Sermon Is a Redemptive Event

Posted on by under Bryan Chapell

More profitable is the recognition that we are not preaching so that people can pass a test given later on the material in the sermon but so that they can understand and respond to the Word of God during the sermon. The sermon itself is a “redemptive event,” a present tool of the Spirit to transform listener’ minds, hearts and wills.

Brian Chapell, Christ-centered Preaching, p. 139

How Can I Keep from Singing?

Posted on by under Music, Video

I personally don’t think that the organ adds anything to the beautiful a capella harmony, but that might be because I prefer men’s a capella singing and because I dislike the organ.  Just my two cents.

How Much Time Must I Spend with the King?

Posted on by under R. A. Torrey

Prayer is a wonderful privilege.  It is an audience with the King.  It is talking to our Father.  How strange it is that people would ask  the question, “How much time should I spend in prayer?”  When a person is summoned to an audience with his king, he never asks, “How much time must I spend with the king?”  His question is rather, “How much time will the king give me?”  Any true child of God, who realizes that prayer is an audience with the King of Kings, will never ask, “How much time must I spend in prayer?”  Instead, he will ask, “How much time may I spend in prayer considering other duties and privileges?”