The Lord shall turn no one away who in truth comes unto Him through Christ — even if for so many years you have been disobedient to this friendly offer; even if until now your entire life has been nothing but sin. —Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:450
"Nobody has understood Christianity who does not understand the word 'justified'." -
John Stott
"May God grant that Christ may not say of any one of us, at the last great day, “I know not the man”!" - Charles Spurgeon
“Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties.” — Charles Spurgeon
Every year new reading plan means new books
O that I could begin this year with God, and spend the whole of it to his glory, either in life or death!
"He rejoiceth with joy, he joys with singing." It is the gladness of the heart of Christ, the joy of his soul, to take poor sinners into this relationship with himself. -
John Owen
“Let us be as happy as we can during this year. You have your trials and troubles to come—do not expect that you will be free from them. Herein is your joy, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Charles H. Spurgeon 1st Sunday of 1867
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition sin makes to you, but by the opposition, you make to it. —John Owen, Works 6:604
"If we will do God's work in God's way at God's time with God's power, we shall have God's blessing." -Leonard Ravenhill.
"Entrust yourself to those pierced hands, which are now glorified with the signet rings of royal power." — Charles Spurgeon
'Tis impossible that God who is almighty and can do what he will and can do what he will with infinite ease should be under any temptation to wrong his creatures for self-interest.
Jonathan Edwards
1 January 2023 is the 250th anniversary of the hymn Amazing Grace. "Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) that saved a wretch like me!"
- John Newton, 1 January 1783
250 years ago on this day, Amazing Grace was first sung in church.
Whenever God means to make a man great — He always breaks him in pieces first.
Charles Spurgeon
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own. -
JC Ryle
"Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all." —
Charles Spurgeon
If it is God’s purpose to be gracious, let it be your purpose to focus also upon this grace. —Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:443
The joy of leadership comes from seeing others achieve more than they thought they were capable of.
"Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling."
The phrase born again is expressed not as the correction of one part, but as the renovation of the whole of nature. -John Calvin
“It is not for the flock of sheep to know the pasture the Shepherd has in mind. It is for them simply to follow Him.” Elisabeth Elliot
Satan gives Adam an apple and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Richard Sibbes
“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.” - C.S. Lewis
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