The Great Army of Your Sins

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Matt Jury under Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Let the great army of your sins pass before you in review, each one like a son of Anak (Numbers 13.33) armed to the hilt for your destruction. They have gone down into the depths, and the red sea of Christ’s blood has drowned them. Thus, He has gained a complete victory over all the guilt of sin.

Charles Spurgeon, The Fulness of Joy, p. 63

How Important Is the Church to You?

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Matt Jury under Don Kistler, John MacArthur

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Church in the eternal plan of God.

John MacArthur in Don Kistler, ed., Onward Christian Soldiers, p. 4

O Great God

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Matt Jury under Music, Video

A Reason for Anemic, Apathetic Christianity

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Matt Jury under George Whitefield

A neglect of secret prayer has been frequently an inlet to many spiritual diseases, and has been attended with fatal consequences.

George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)

HT: @WhitefieldG

Prayer Is the Christian’s Vital Breath

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Matt Jury under Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

Oswald Chambers (1874 – 1917)

You Reap What You Sow

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Matt Jury under Leonard Ravenhill

The law of prayer is the law of the harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is that we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.

Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994)

Would You Recognize Answered Prayer If It Knocked on Your Door?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Matt Jury under Thomas Watson

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Thomas Watson (1620—1686)

HT: @challies

Pastor, Water Your Sermon with Prayer

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Matt Jury under Charles Bridges

Nothing will give such power to our sermons as when they are the sermons of many prayers. The best sermons are lost, except they be watered by prayer. It is easy to bring to our people the product of our own study; but the blessing belongs to the message delivered to them, as from the mouth of God.

Charles Bridges (1794-1869)

O Be Joyful

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Matt Jury under Music, Video

We Are Far too Easily Pleased

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Matt Jury under C. S. Lewis

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

Life Is Worship

Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. (Psalm 29.2)

The Great Army of Your Sins

Let the great army of your sins pass before you in review, each one like a son of Anak (Numbers 13.33) armed to the hilt for your destruction. They have gone down into the depths, and the red sea of Christ’s blood has drowned them. Thus, He has gained a complete victory over all the guilt of sin.

How Important Is the Church to You?

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Church in the eternal plan of God.

O Great God

A Reason for Anemic, Apathetic Christianity

A neglect of secret prayer has been frequently an inlet to many spiritual diseases, and has been attended with fatal consequences.

Prayer Is the Christian’s Vital Breath

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

You Reap What You Sow

The law of prayer is the law of the harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is that we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.

Would You Recognize Answered Prayer If It Knocked on Your Door?

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Pastor, Water Your Sermon with Prayer

Nothing will give such power to our sermons as when they are the sermons of many prayers. The best sermons are lost, except they be watered by prayer. It is easy to bring to our people the product of our own study; but the blessing belongs to the message delivered to them, as from the mouth of God.

O Be Joyful

We Are Far too Easily Pleased