In our fluctuation of feelings, it is well to remember . . . your heart is not the compass Jesus sails by.
HT: @cslchsnmore
No Cross, No Crown
Afflictions add to the saints’ glory. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles; the heavier the saints’ cross is, the heavier will be their crown.
HT: @billmounce
Pray Big Prayers
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings!
Suffering Isn’t Redemptive
Suffering in this world is no blotting out of sin.
Pastor, Arm Yourself with the Scriptures
Whoso is armed with the text, the same is a right pastor, and my best advice and counsel is, that we draw water out of the true Fountain; that is, diligently to read in the Bible. He is a learned divine that is well grounded in the text; for one text and sentence out of the Bible is of far more esteem and value than many writings and glosses, which neither are strong, sound, nor armor proof.
It Was For Me
Faith Is a Public Matter
Faith is not a private wager but a public risk that Jesus is worthy of trust when no other hope can be trusted.
James M. Edwards, The Gospel according to Mark (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002), 101.
A Greater Debt Than We Could Ever Repay
How seldom do we think how much we are indebted to Christ living in us!
HT: @TGC
Doing What Jesus Does
He who is constantly employed in interceding for others, is doing that on earth, which the eternal Son of God is always doing in heaven.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @whitefieldg
He First Loved Us
He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love.
HT: @RodneyCoe
Life Is Worship 