If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.
HT: @RodneyCoe
Tag Archives: Christianity
Christians Are Fellow-Worms
Christians who are but fellow-worms ought at least to treat one another with as much humility and gentleness as Christ treats them.
HT: @CJMahaney
God Is for Us
Now God sometimes allows people to treat us unjustly. Sometimes He even allows their actions to seriously affect our careers or our futures viewed on a human plane. But God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us. God is for us, we are His children, He delights in us (see Zephaniah 3:17). And the Scripture says, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31). We can put this down as a bedrock truth: God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts
HT: Reformed Quotes
Invited to the Greatness of Glory
God’s grace invites you to be part of something that is far greater than your boldest and most expansive dream. His grace cuts a hole in your self-built prison and invites you to step into something so huge, so significant that only one word in the Bible can adequately capture it. That word is glory.
Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More (Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2007), 18.
The Purpose and Power of Spiritual Disciplines
The true efficacy of spiritual disciplines is not their power to bribe God but their usefulness in opening hearts to the perception and exercise of His power. Spiritual disciplines enable those made righteous by Christ’s work to breathe more deeply the resources that God freely and lovingly provides for the wisdom, joy, and strength of Christian living. Through disciplines, we inhale more deeply the air God provides for the Christian race, but such disciplines do not produce or maintain the oxygen of God’s love…. Disciplines become regular refreshment for those who hunger and thirst for ever deeper fellowship with the God they love (Ps. 19:10). The same disciplines, however, will become distasteful duty or bitter pride for those who think that their devotion keeps them on the good side of a God whose measure of love is determined by the grade of their performance.
Brian Chapell, Christ-centered Preaching (Grand Rapids; Baker Academic, 2005), 293.
The Danger of Spiritual Apathy
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.
Courageously Doing God’s Will
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously doing God’s will.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
HT: @ToddAdkins
The State of the Nation Depends upon the State of the Church
If the Church languishes, the State cannot be in health; and if the State rebels against its Lord and King, the Church cannot enjoy His favor. If the Holy Spirit is withdrawn from the Church, He is not present in the State; and if He, the only ‘Lord, the Giver of Life,’ be absent, then all order is impossible, and the elements of society lapse backward to primeval night and chaos … I charge you, citizens of the United States, afloat on your wide sea of politics, there is another King, one Jesus: the safety of the State can be secured only in the way of humble and whole-souled loyalty to His person and of obedience to His law.
Who Does the Heavy Lifting in God’s Kingdom?
God is pleased to use ordinary people and ordinary conversations to do most of the heavy lifting in his kingdom.
Is Your Soul Happy in the Lord?
The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.
HT: @challies
Life Is Worship 