February 2012
14 posts
“..Though many thought me a proper, moral, respectable young man, I was totally...”
– J.C. Ryle
“Would you be holy? Would you become a new creature? Then begin with Christ! You...”
– J.C. Ryle
“However hard some things are to understand, it is never helpful to start picking...”
– D.A. Carson
Why Faith?
Faith is the means of our justification. Why faith? Why is faith God’s chosen means to justify us right before Himself? Why not love? Why not humility, joy, or wisdom? Because faith is the anti-work. Faith is the desperate acknowledgment that there is nothing you can do and you have to trust in what somebody else has already done. Faith is coming to the end of yourself and saying Nothing in...
January 2012
42 posts
“If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I...”
– Charles Spurgeon
“God’s grace doesn’t demand you get clean before you come to Jesus. Rather, our...”
– Tullian Tchividjian
“If these are the beauties afforded to sinful men, what does God have in store...”
– St. Augustine
“God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I...”
– Jonathan Edwards
“You must bear the cross, or you shall never wear the crown; you must wade...”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to...”
– Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
“The best of men are only men at their very best. Apostles, martyrs, reformers,...”
– J.C. Ryle
“Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and...”
– - François Fénelon
“Strive to have every thought, word, action & habit brought under obedience...”
– JC Ryle
“Even the supposed “good things” that unbelievers do are like filthy rags before...”
– John MacArthur
Romance
…is cliche’, apprehensive, uncertain, the “shakes”, hopeless, nervous, honest, joyous, exciting, and above all it is; messy.
Romance is two messy people coming together to try and be the best possible mess they know how.
Call me old-fashioned but I think it’s all worth it.
“The best of men are only men at their very best. Apostles, martyrs, reformers,...”
– J.C. Ryle
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– — Dead Poets Society, 1989 // I wanted to become a teacher after this film.
“Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be...”
– Spurgeon
“How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing...”
“The message of biblical Christianity is not ‘God loves me, period,’ as if we...”
– David Platt
Continual Repentance - Puritan Prayer
O God of Grace,
Thou hast imputed my sin to my substitute, and hast imputed his righteousness to my soul, clothing me with a bridegroom’s robe, decking me with jewels of holiness.
But in my Christian walk I am still in rags; my best prayers are stained with sin; my penitential tears are so much impurity; my confessions of wrong are so many aggravations of sin; my receiving the Spirit is...
“Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is...”
– Anthony Flew