I sin continually, but Christ has died, and forever lives, as my Redeemer, Priest, Advocate, and King.
HT: @crossway
When It’s Time to Find a New Pastor or a New Church
This month is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. October’s quotes will come from Martin Luther to recognize this anniversary.
A pastor who fails to deal with sin is like a doctor who fails to deal with illness. You better find another one.
HT: @burkparsons
Here Is Love
Require Your Pastor to Preach the Gospel!
If you always enjoy sermons, the minister is not a good steward. He is not acting wisely who deals out nothing but sweets.
God Is Not Slack about His Promises
Promises are obligatory. If God has passed a promise, He cannot go back.
Prayer Is the Christian’s Vital Breath
Feel His All-seeing Eye Settled on You in Love
Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief! Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in his beams. Feel his all-seeing eye settled on you in love, and repose in his almighty arms. . . . Let your soul be filled with a heart-ravishing sense of the sweetness and excellency of Christ and all that is in Him. Let the Holy Spirit fill every chamber of your heart; and so there will be no room for folly, or the world, or Satan, or the flesh.
Pastor, Focus on Christ As You Preach!
There are some Sundays I think I hit a home run, and then there are Sundays (more often than I care to admit) when I feel like my sermon fell in front of the pulpit. I need confidence in Christ, not my cleverness!
Trust God to work through yesterday’s sermon!
Listen to this encouragement from John Owen.
When you have preached well nineteen times, this will be no security for the twentieth. . . . If you lean upon books or men, or upon your own faculties and attainments, you will be in fear and in danger of falling continually. But if you stay yourself upon the Lord, he will not only make good your expectations, but in time will give you a becoming confidence in his goodness, and free you from your present anxiety.
HT: @MattSmethurst
How Will You Worship This Weekend?
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
We Are Safe!
It’s not our holding to God, but His holding to us that perseveres us. Like little boats tied fast to a rock, we are safe.
HT: @mattcapps
Life Is Worship 