"We are in the world, but not of the world. We are to have our boat in the water, but no water in the boat." -Steven Lawson.
Whatever we chase, like it or not, gains our full attention. Oh Lord, may You be our greatest pursuit. Today and every day. "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)
"It is necessary to use terminology that doesn’t appear in Scripture in order to explain precisely what Scripture does and does not mean by the terminology it does use."
"Pursuing Unity on Triunity: Aiming for Clarity on the Recent Trinity Debates."
The God who is Father, Son, and Spirit has reached out through the Son and by the Spirit to embrace us as sons to the end that we may call God our Father in the Spirit of the Son. //
Scott R. Swain, The Trinity
“Our loving heavenly Father wants His children to be joyful people. But sometimes we seek out joy and fulfillment where they can never be found.” — Sinclair Ferguson
“One of the key, defining marks of the true Christian going forward is that they will hold fast to the Bible’s teaching on marriage and sexuality. No equivocation. No compromise.”
"[Christ's] face is the sun, and his countenance scatters those health-giving beams, and nurturing warmth, and perfecting influences which are needful for maturing the saints in all the sweetness of grace to the glory of God." - Charles Spurgeon
Keep me always in the understanding that saints mourn more for sin than other men, for when they see how great is thy wrath against sin, and how Christ’s death alone pacifies that wrath, that makes them mourn the more. —Valley of Vision, Pg. 155
Ever look to him for help: your own safety consists in a deep and abiding sense of your own weakness, and in a firm reliance on his strength. - William Wilberforce
"So, if we are afraid that the devil should get in among us let us always in prayer entreat that there may be no space for the devil, because the Lord Jesus Christ fills all, and keeps out the adversary." - Charles Spurgeon
The world will let a man go to hell quietly and never try to stop him. The world will never let a man go to heaven quietly; they will do all they can to turn him back. -
“You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.” - C.S. Lewis
Reputation is what men think we are, and character is what God knows we are.
The Spirit of the Disciplines is nothing but the love of Jesus, with its resolute will to be like him whom we love. The Spirit of the Disciplines
Satan’s greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare. John Owen
In Christ, His face shines, full of grace and gentleness, even upon us poor and unworthy sinners. John Calvin
You are not saved because your repentance and faith are perfect. You’re saved because the work of Christ is perfect and you’re clinging to that in your frailty and your helplessness. Paul Washer
“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.” — John Calvin
"Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!" John Bunyan
“For as faith justifies a person, so works justify faith.” — Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 2.676.
Counseling is applying systematic theology to people’s lives. – Pastor Tim Pasma
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