Tag Archives: Christ

All or Nothing

Posted on by under C. S. Lewis

Christ says, “Give me all.  I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you.  I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it.  No half-measures are any good.  I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there; I want to have the whole tree down.  I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it but to have it out.  Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked — the whole outfit.  I will give you a new self instead.  In fact, I will give you Myself: My own will shall become yours.”

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1952), 167.

Christ Condescends To Wash Our Feet

Posted on by under Jonathan Edwards

If one worm be a little exalted above another, by having more dust, or rather a bigger dunghill, how much does he make of himself! What a distance does he keep from those that are below him! And a little condescension is what he expects should be made much of, and greatly acknowledged. Christ condescends to wash our feet; but how would great men, (or rather bigger worms,) account themselves debased by acts of far less condescension!

Jonathan Edwards, The Excellency of Christ

Is He Not Rightly Called Wonderful?

Posted on by under Charles Haddon Spurgeon

‎I do believe that the very angels have never wondered but once and that has been incessantly ever since they first beheld it. They never cease to tell the astonishing story, and to tell it with increasing astonishment too, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born of the Virgin Mary, and became a man. Is he not rightly called Wonderful? Infinite, and an infant — eternal, and yet born of a woman — Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast supporting the universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms — king of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph — heir of all things and yet the carpenter’s despised son. Wonderful art thou O Jesus, and that shall be thy name for ever.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)

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The Most Wonderful Message the World Has Ever Heard or Ever Will Hear

Posted on by under J. I. Packer, Nancy Guthrie

This Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity — hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory — because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross. It is the most wonderful message that the world has ever heard, or will hear.

J. I. Packer in Nancy Guthrie, Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), 71.

Christ Who Suffered in Our Place

Posted on by under D. A. Carson

My thoughts and prayers are with the grieving families in Newtown, CT. The Christmas season was the beginning of the life of the one who can best identify with them, being the one who Himself is a man of sorrows and well-acquainted with grief. Jesus knows and understands, and He is present with those who suffering at this time.  God bless them all!

Sometimes it is when we suffer, when we observe the universality of death’s decree, when we are debilitated, when we observe an extraordinarily barbaric bit of cruelty, when we are sidelined by a chronic illness, that we are impelled to pause and reflect on the love of God to sinners and rebels such as we are. We serve the Lord Christ, who suffered in our place, who learned obedience through the trials that he suffered. The trinkets and baubles that otherwise capture so much of our attention fade away, and the eternal things assume their rightful place. Then we know what it means to confess that God’s love is ‘as shoreless and endless as eternity.’

D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1992), 194.