John Stott: Humility is not pretending to be other than we are, but acknowledging the truth of what we are.
Stuart Briscoe: “At all costs . . .”
It is worth reading Stuart Briscoe’s book, Flowing Streams: Journeys of a Life Well Lived, if only to read the final chapter, “Stones from the Stream,” where he summarizes five basic principles that may be helpful to Christians and local…
How do you become Jesus’ friend?
John Frame answers the question: First, by recognizing that no matter how good you may be in your own eyes and in the eyes of other people, you are a sinful person in the eyes of a holy and righteous…
Spurgeon: “The thought that we may ourselves one be under the window . . .”
Spurgeon: The thought that we may ourselves be one day under the window should make us careful when we are throwing out our dirty water.” Spurgeon’s Plain Advice for Plain People, pages 75-76.
Where the power of faith resides
“The saving power of faith resides . . . not in itself, but in the Almighty Savior on whom it rests.” B.B. Warfield. Quoted in Robert L. Reymond, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (Nashville: Thomas Nelson,…
Consider our Lord this Palm Sunday; He rides no stallion.
Matthew 21:5: Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ Luther on Christ’s triumphal entry: He is presented…
“A good deal depends upon our conception of the place and nature of the wrath of God”
Leon Morris: A good deal depends upon our conception of the place and nature of the wrath of God. If this is regarded as a very real factor so that the sinner is exposed to its severity, then the removal…
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are . . ."
Paul Tripp shares this Leo Tolstoy quote in What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage. It will be out soon . . . I highly recommend it. Leo Tolstoy: What counts in making a happy marriage is not…
“The most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man”
Dorothy Sayers in Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine : Official Christianity, of late years has been having what is known as a bad press. We are constantly assured that the churches are…
“And, the truth shall make you odd”
Flannery O’Connor quotes: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd. It is the business of the author to uncover the strangeness of truth. does not change according to our ability to stomach it,”…