I cannot trifle with the evil which slew my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?– Charles Spurgeon
God’s providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.– Jerry Bridges in God Took Me by the Hand
Confident dependence on God to fulfill all He has purposed is demonstrated by a life of prayer.– Ian Hamilton
I commend to you the importance of watchfulness over your prayers. Prayer is that point in religion at which you must be most of all on your guard. Here it is that true religion begins; here it flourishes, and here it decays. Tell me what a man’s prayers are, and I will soon tell you the state of his soul. Prayer is the spiritual pulse. By this the spiritual health may be tested.
– J.C. Ryle
People have such slight and superficial views of sin because they have such slight and superficial views of God!– Ian Hamilton in What Is Experiential Calvinism?
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)
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