“The gospel influences virtually all our relationships and responsibilities in life and ministry.”
-Sam Storms, A Dozen Things God Did with Your Sin (And Three Things He’ll Never Do) (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022), 184.
“The gospel influences virtually all our relationships and responsibilities in life and ministry.”
-Sam Storms, A Dozen Things God Did with Your Sin (And Three Things He’ll Never Do) (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022), 184.
“Passages like this should teach us our need of Christ’s blood and righteousness.
To Him we must go, if we would ever stand with boldness at the bar of God.
From Him we must seek grace.”
-J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke (Carlisle: Banner of Truth, 2012), 1: 284.
Most loving Father,
Preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties,
and grant that no clouds of this mortal life
may hide from us the light of that love which is immortal,
and which you have manifested unto us in Your Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
“It takes more than a simple affirmation of divine love for sinners to awaken us to the sheer magnitude of what God has done for us.
It takes asking me to conceive of the inconceivable distance between east and west to open my eyes to this truth. (Psalm 103:10-12).”
-Sam Storms
“Having a full Gospel, let us beware that we do not neglect it.
It is a weighty saying, ‘To whomsoever much is given, of them will much be required.’ (Luke 12:48)”
-J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1858/2012), 1: 280.
“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”
-Luke 10:23-24
“Technology is in its proper place when it helps us bond with the real people we have been given to love.”
-Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2017), 20.
“In relationship to sin and to God, the determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
It is Christ’s past.”
–Sinclair Ferguson, “Christian Spirituality: The Reformed View of Sanctification,” in Some Pastors and Teachers (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2017), 533.
“Christ is a Son; the Spirit tells us we are sons. Christ is an heir; the Spirit tells us we are heirs with Christ. Christ is the king of heaven and earth; the Spirit tells us that we are kings, that His riches are ours.”
-Richard Sibbes, (Works, 1:19)
“God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace He requires no more than He gives, but gives what He requires, and accepts what He gives.”
-Richard Sibbes, “The Bruised Reed,” Works, Vol. 1 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1639/2001), 1: 58.
“If Christ were not God, there would be no Christianity.”
-Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 2: Man and Christ (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020), 2: 777.
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”
-Mary Oliver, “Invitation,” Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (New York: Penguin Press, 2017), 107.
“Christ must be ‘preached.’ (1 Timothy 3:16)
Preaching is the chariot that carries Christ up and down the world.
It is a gift of all gifts, the ordinance of preaching.
God esteems it so, Christ esteems it so, and so should we esteem it.”
–Richard Sibbes, Works (5: 508-509)
“Many and weighty as our sins are, Christ can bear them all.”
–J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1858/2012), 1: 279. Ryle is commenting on Luke 10:21-24.
“Our help is laid on One that is mighty. (Psalm 89:19) Christ over all, God blessed forever, will not fail any one that trusts in Him.”
–J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1858/2012), 1: 280. Ryle is commenting on Luke 10:21-24.
“Most of Christ’s laborers probably have as much success as their souls can bear.”
–J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1858/2012), 1: 273. Ryle is commenting on Luke 10:17.
“Few men are like Samson, and can kill a lion without telling others of it. (Judges 14:6)”
–J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1858/2012), 1: 273. Ryle is commenting on Luke 10:17.
“The One to whom the Scriptures point, whose coming we await, is the true and better Adam, bridegroom and beloved.
His praise will know no end.”
-James M. Hamilton, Jr., Typology: Understanding the Bible’s Promise-Shaped Patterns (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2022), 360.
“There is no school like the school of the cross.”
-John Newton, Wise Counsel: John Newton’s Letters to John Ryland Jr., Ed. Grant Gordon (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2009), 243.
“May we die daily.
May we live forever.
Amen.”
-John Newton, Wise Counsel: John Newton’s Letters to John Ryland Jr., Ed. Grant Gordon (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2009), 243.
“What’s past is prologue.”
-William Shakespeare, “The Tempest,” The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), 11. (1.2.261)
“Settle it in your heart, my friend, that the Lord does all things well, all for the best. Believe it now and in due time you shall plainly see it and praise Him equally for giving and taking away.”
-John Newton, Wise Counsel (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2009), 192.
“I am a singular and striking proof that the atoning blood of Jesus can cleanse from the most enormous sins, that His grace can soften the hardest heart, subdue the most obstinate habits of evil, and that He is indeed able to save to the uttermost (Heb. 7:25).”
-John Newton
“The Lamb once upon the cross is now the Lamb upon the throne. (Rev. 5:6)
With infinite wisdom, love, and power on our side we may rejoice.
The sea is rough and stormy, but the pilot is infallible.”
–John Newton, Wise Counsel (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2009), 386.
“Grace has long and strong arms.”
-John Newton, Wise Counsel: John Newton’s Letters to John Ryland Jr., Ed. Grant Gordon (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2009), 364.