Toplady
Not the labours of my hand can fulfill Your law’s demands. Could my zeal no respite know, could my tears ever flow, all for sin could atone. You must save, and You alone.
November 15, 2011 Leave a comment
God has freely bound His happiness with our happiness
“We have… made the point that God’s end in all things is his own glory—that he should be manifested, known, admired, adored. This statement is true, but it is incomplete. It needs to be balanced by a recognition that through setting his love on human beings God has voluntarily bound up his own final happiness with theirs. It is not for nothing that the Bible habitually speaks of God as the loving Father and Husband of his people. It follows from the very nature of these relationships that God’s happiness will not be complete till all his beloved ones are finally out of trouble:
Till all the ransomed church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.”- J.I. Packer, Knowing God
November 15, 2011 Leave a comment
The other day, somebody asked, “What does it mean to be saved?”. I think this verse says it all.
Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. John 3:33
November 14, 2011 Leave a comment
entregulistanybostan: John Lee Hooker, at Music Inn, Stockbridge (MA), ca 1950 -by Clemens Kalischer
entregulistanybostan: John Lee Hooker, at Music Inn, Stockbridge (MA), ca 1950 -by Clemens Kalischer
November 11, 2011 Leave a comment
John Piper, Keep the Presence of God
The danger of spiritual pride is so subtle that we must even watch for it at the place of greatest sanctification — seeing the glory of the Lord. If there is any remnant of pride in us, even pure glory can be twisted to feed it.
November 9, 2011 Leave a comment
ESV Translation Committee debate the use of the English translation of the word ‘slave’
ESV Translation Committee debate the use of the English translation of the word ‘slave’ from the Hebrew word ebed and the Greek work doulos.
November 9, 2011 Leave a comment