Every member should grow up and use a towel, not wear a bib. They should not be immature consumers but eager servants.– Tony Merida in Exalting Jesus in Ephesians
I commend to you the importance of fullness in prayer…. I am afraid the private devotions of many are most painfully scanty and limited; just enough to prove they are alive and no more. They really seem to want little from God.
– J. C. Ryle
The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption. He is the highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ purchased. God is the inheritance of the saints; he is the portion of their souls. God is their wealth and treasure, their food, their life, their dwelling place, their ornament and diadem, and their everlasting honor and glory. They have none in heaven but God; he is the great good which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they are to rise to at the end of the world.
– Jonathan Edwards
Biblical truth reforms and restyles the believer’s life.– Ian Hamilton in What Is Experiential Calvinism?
Above all else, worship is an encounter with the living, true, holy, sovereign, triune God of the universe. He chooses to meet with us by His Word and Spirit, and there is nothing as meaningful, rich, and glorious on earth as the church gathered together with its Lord and Savior in worship.
– Jason Helopoulos in Tabletalk (May 2016)
We find here that Christianity is not about becoming religious. It is not about conforming to a list of rules. It is not about adopting a philosophy. It is not about financial prosperity. It is not about becoming a nice person. It is about becoming a new person. It is about going from death to life. It is about going from darkness to light.
– Tony Merida in Exalting Jesus in Ephesians
I commend to you the importance of perseverance in prayer. Once having begun the habit, never give it up….let no excuse make you give up prayer.– J. C. Ryle
The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.– Jonathan Edwards
Positionally, we are holy because we are united with Christ. Now we must live in a manner that is consistent with this position. Personal holiness is about becoming in practice what we are in position.– Tony Merida in Exalting Jesus in Ephesians
I commend to you the importance of intercession in our prayers…. We should stir ourselves up to name other names besides our own before the throne of grace.– J. C. Ryle
Brian J. Mikul 