May 2012
2 posts
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1. Behold the throne of grace!
The promise calls me near;
There Jesus shows...
– John Newton
April 2012
5 posts
2 tags
This is the story of the Bible, not you or me. It is God and God alone,...
– Matt Chandler, The Explicit Gospel, p. 35.
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The gospel is cause for confidence because it distills the kept promises of God...
– Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness, p. 181.
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Christ Jesus is both the author and the finisher of our faith. It is God who...
– Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness, p. 89.
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Christian, you are a Christian. You have a new identity. You are in Christ, and...
– Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness, p. 122.
March 2012
9 posts
3 tags
Christ satisfies the demands of the law completely; therefore, when we receive...
– Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness, p. 107.
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The danger we face when we worship is coming into the experience assuming we are...
– Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness, p. 88.
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In the evangelical subculture we are used to thinking about worship in terms of...
– Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness, p. 78.
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How do we present the gospel in a non-routine way in order to prevent people...
– Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness, p. 16.
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Have you ever tried to imagine what it would be like not only to be...
– D. A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 221.
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In the eighteenth century there was a very famous preacher (probably the most...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 131.
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Biblically faithful Christianity does not present itself as a nice religious...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 210.
February 2012
14 posts
3 tags
In the first century it was simply unthinkable that someone would become a...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 193.
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Do you want to know where God’s justice is most powerfully demonstrated?...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 181.
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God does not pretend that good deeds make up for bad deeds. Rather, he has found...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 170.
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But Jesus comes to die and rise again. This pair of events, Jesus’s death...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 153.
January 2012
9 posts
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But Jesus doesn’t go to the cross because he is a victim of fate. He does...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 144.
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Praying Scripture means that church leaders might want to consider preparing...
– Jonathan Leeman, Reverberation, p. 172.
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…you will not find a single verse in the Bible that commends drawing outsiders...
– Jonathan Leeman, Reverberation, p. 79.
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Do you want to know what the character of God is like? Study Jesus. Do you want...
– D. A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 117.
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Those of you who have been Christians for some time or who have gotten to know...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 86.
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God is our judge as well as our only hope. There lies the beginning of wisdom.
– D.A. Carson, The God Who Is There, p. 97.
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You cannot create true worship in peoples’ hearts by placing them in the right...
– Jonathan Leeman, Reverberation, p. 80.
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What any people must have is the presence of the living God. It is not enough in...
– D.A. Carson, The God Who is There, p. 67.
November 2010
1 post
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In the middle of all the changes in life, it’s good for us that there is...
– Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning by Morning, November 2nd.
October 2010
1 post
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It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart...
– Charles Spurgeon
September 2010
1 post
2 tags
Be as speedy in your repentance as you would have God speedy in his...
– Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance
August 2010
4 posts
3 tags
Love cannot be silent…it is like fire: where it burns in the heart, it...
– Thomas Watson
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Love is a humble grace; it does not walk abroad in state; it will creep upon its...
– Thomas Watson
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Our Lord Jesus did not die for imaginary sins, but His heart’s blood was...
– Charles Spurgeon, All of Grace, p. 15.