Tag: Holiness

Saturday Strands

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Here are some loose strands for our growth:

How Should We Pray? A Helpful Framework of Seven ‘P’s – John Stevens
It helps to have some framework for prayer that shapes our thinking and speaking. I find it helpful to bear in mind the following aspects of prayer, both for my personal praying and public prayers.

Leave Church a Little Tired: Serving the Saints on Sunday Morning – Sam Emadi (DG)
The next time you gather with God’s people, I hope you leave strengthened and spiritually fed, I hope you’re built up by the gospel, and I also hope you leave a little tired. I hope you leave looking a little more like the Son of Man, who gave his life to serve.

The Radiance of Real Holiness – Trevin Wax
I’ve been thinking more carefully about how compelling and attractive holiness can be in a world that has forgotten the sacred dignity of humanity and the high calling God has for us.

Follow the Truth, Not Your Heart – Robby Lashua (STR)
The Christian worldview teaches that the heart is deceitfully wicked and that transformation happens when our minds are conformed to the truth. According to the New Age worldview, the mind is a trickster, so we should follow our hearts. This is a complete inversion of the truth.

Flashback: Where God Dwells
God is high and holy, so it should not surprise us that he dwells in a high and holy place. What should absolutely amaze us….

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping God with your local church!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Holiness Will Make You Unbelievably Happy – Jon Bloom (DG)
God’s call to move “further up and further in” in holiness is an invitation to joy!

Gentleness – All About Communication – James Faris (GR)
Are you gentle? How would you know?

6 Very Good Reasons to Consider Your Short Little Life – Tim Challies
Our lives are short. They are, in the words of the author of Ecclesiastes, little more than vapor, dust blow by the wind. Yet the very thought that could dismay or depress you, can also motivate you. Here are some blessings that will be yours when you pause to consider your short little life.

I Won’t Let Cancer Take Away My Sundays – Jordan Standridge (cripplegate)
The profundity of her mumbled explanation for why she hadn’t stayed home this Sunday or any in the last year for that matter hit me hard. I’ve always said that there’s no place I’d rather be than with God’s people on Sunday morning and Sunday night but I’ve never had cancer in my lungs. Perhaps the bed would be a greater desire for me if I had cancer. And yet for this sweet saint, church was better despite the pain she incurred in coming.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church!

Suppose

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FaithfulnessHolinessSuppose for a moment that you were allowed to enter heaven without holiness.  What would you do?  What possible enjoyment could you feel there?  To which of all the saints would you join yourself, and by whose side would you sit down?  Their pleasures are not your pleasures, their tastes not your tastes, their character not your character.  How could you possibly be happy, if you had not been holy on earth?

– J.C. Ryle in Holiness

We Must Be Holy

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FaithfulnessHolinessWe must be holy:

  • Because the voice of God in Scripture plainly commands it.
  • Because this is the one grand end and purpose for which Christ came into the world.
  • Because this is the only sound evidence that we have saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Because this is the only proof that we love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
  • Because this is the only sound evidence that we are true children of God.
  • Because this is the most likely way to do good to others.
  • Because our present comfort depends much upon it.
  • Because without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven.

– J.C. Ryle in Holiness

A Holy Man

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FaithfulnessHolinessA holy man will endeavor to shun every known sin, and to keep every known commandment.

A holy man will strive to be like our Lord Jesus Christ.

A holy man will follow after meekness, longsuffering, gentleness, patience, kind tempers, government of his tongue.

A holy man will follow after temperance and self-denial.

A holy man will follow after charity and brotherly kindness.

A holy man will follow after a spirit of mercy and benevolence towards others.

A holy man will follow after purity of heart.  He will dread all filthiness and uncleanness of spirit, and seek to avoid all things that might draw him into it.

A holy man will follow after the fear of God.

A holy man will follow after humility.

A holy man will follow after faithfulness in all the duties and relations of life.

A holy man will follow after spiritual mindedness. 

– J. C. Ryle in Holiness

Classic Quote

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OldBooksHoliness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment – hating what He hates – loving what He loves – and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.

– J. C. Ryle