Days gone by

"Between the Bible’s bookends of creation and restored creation is the unfolding story of..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:36:25 -0400

“Between the Bible’s bookends of creation and restored creation is the unfolding story of God’s redeeming grace.”

- Justin Holcombe

"This is a cheerful world as I see it from my garden under the shadows of my vines. But if I were to..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:52:20 -0400

““This is a cheerful world as I see it from my garden under the shadows of my vines. But if I were to ascend some high mountain and looked out over the wide lands, you know very well what I should see: brigands on the highways, pirates on the sea, armies fighting, cities burning; in the amphitheaters men murdered to please applauding crowds; selfishness and cruelty and misery and despair under all roofs. It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret…They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasure of our sinful life…These people, Donatus, are Christians and I am one of them.””

- Cyprian, the Bishop of Carthage

"To come to Jesus is to taste and see that he is good and to find in him the end of all your desires."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:14:34 -0400

“To come to Jesus is to taste and see that he is good and to find in him the end of all your desires.”

- David Platt

"Sanctification is thus simply the art of getting used to justification. It is not something added to..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:35:18 -0400

“Sanctification is thus simply the art of getting used to justification. It is not something added to justification. It is not the final defense against a justification too liberally granted. It is the justified life. It is what happens when the old being comes up against the end of its self-justifying and self-gratifying ways, however pious. It is life lived in anticipation of the resurrection.”

- Gerhard Forde

"I am not the subject of my own life story."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:53:44 -0400

“I am not the subject of my own life story.”

- Dan Siedell

"Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:17:51 -0400

“Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes.”

- Oscar Wilde

"Everything we preached in the sunshine has been proved and found true in the shade."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:21:27 -0400

““Everything we preached in the sunshine has been proved and found true in the shade.””

- Levi Lusko

"Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply..."

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:38:03 -0400

“Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.”

- J.C. Ryle

"Heaven and earth may well be astonished that rebels should obtain so great a nearness to the heart..."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:00:54 -0400

“Heaven and earth may well be astonished that rebels should obtain so great a nearness to the heart of infinite love as to be written upon the palms of his hands. “I have graven thee.” It does not say, “Thy name.” The name is there, but that is not all: “I have graven thee.” See the fulness of this!”

- Charles Spurgeon

"If none of God’s saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of..."

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:57:48 -0500

“If none of God’s saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace.”

- Charles Spurgeon

"Law, in his terrible, cool voice, said, “Many will be rejected at the last day, not because they..."

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:11:31 -0500

“Law, in his terrible, cool voice, said, “Many will be rejected at the last day, not because they have taken time and pains about their salvation, but because they have not taken time and pains enough”; and later, in his richer, Behmenite period, “If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead.” Those are hard words to take. Will it really make no difference whether it was women or patriotism, cocaine or art, whisky or a seat in the Cabinet, money or science? Well, surely no difference that matters. We shall have missed the end for which we are formed and rejected the only thing that satisfies. Does it matter to a man dying in a desert by which choice of route he missed the only well?””

- C.S. Lewis

"In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone..."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:13:48 -0500

“In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, ‘That is mine!’”

- Abraham Kuyper

Netflix and waiting on the snow on Flickr.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:57:30 -0500

Netflix and waiting on the snow on Flickr.

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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:20:59 -0500

bgospelm: Let him beard!

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:31:09 -0500

bgospelm:

Let him beard!

"We are taught, by past experience, that the more simply we depend upon the grace of God in Christ,..."

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:16:08 -0500

“We are taught, by past experience, that the more simply we depend upon the grace of God in Christ, and wait upon the Holy Spirit, the more we shall bring forth fruit unto God. Oh! to trust Jesus for fruit as well as for life.”

- Spurgeon, C. H. (2006). Morning and evening: Daily readings (Complete and unabridged; New modern edition.). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers.

bgospelm: How to make an ugly man handsome.

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:40:16 -0500

bgospelm:

How to make an ugly man handsome.

"Brethren, if you are ever so taken up with any enjoyment that it takes away your love for prayer or..."

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:51:42 -0400

“Brethren, if you are ever so taken up with any enjoyment that it takes away your love for prayer or for your Bible, or that it would frighten you to hear the cry: “The Bridegroom cometh:” and you would say: Is He come already? then you are abusing this world. Oh! sit loose to this world’s joy: “The time is short.””

- Robert Murray M’Cheyne

"In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will..."

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:51:29 -0400

““In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.””

- William Booth

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:19:09 -0400

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.