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“Transcendent living is Christ-centered living.”
“Transcendent living is Christ-centered living. Living for Christ is the only way you will ever be liberated from your bondage to the overwhelming tendency to shrink the size of your life to the size of your life. The only way to spin free of the...
"We as a Church, and I may speak freely for my own flock, we long, to see Christ glorified. It is to this end we seek to train up our sons, young men in our much-loved college, that they may go forth as preachers of the Word. We have agencies by which we hope to do something in our generation...
Today's Puritan Audio Devotional--
"Even your own relatives think you are almost insane"
by J. C. Philpot (4 minutes)
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The only happy man in the world!
(Thomas Brooks, "An Ark for All God's Noahs")
God gives the trifling portions of this world to the
vilest and worst of men...
Amid all the confusion and tangle
(J. R. Miller, "The Beauty of Self-control")
"Hold me up--and I shall be safe!" Psalm 119:117
Certain ancient mariners were accustomed to say, as
they put out to sea, "Keep me, O God, for my boat is
so small--and the ocean is so great and stormy!"
There...
I think I have been in a low place of discouragement for several months now; usually the Lord does not let me go this long or let me get so low; yet He is right here and I am not destroyed, but most certainly "undone" in some areas...mercifully undone...less of me...more of Him. He is much...
In my view this is worth listening to...for the believer and non-believer. Lord give us ears to hear Your Word and Your Truth...help us sift through the lies and traditions that have clouded the true gospel...help us to receive Your gospel and let it work in our hearts and lives according to...
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,
and
judgement was given unto them:
and
I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus,
and
for the word of God,
and
which had not worshipped the beast,
neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads,
or
in...
Today's Puritan Audio Devotional--
"As Proud and Carnal as Ever!"
by Thomas Watson (4 minutes)
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Nothing can tame savage hearts!
(John MacDuff)
Oh, the human heart is deep in its corruptions,
deep in its self-deceptions. "The human heart
is most deceitful and desperately...
I am putting this link here for any who might want to read and meditate on a prayer like this...it was helpful to me today. :)
http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/dailydevotion_detail.php?140
More Than We Ever Dared Hope
“The gospel of justifying faith means that while Christians are, in themselves still sinful and sinning, yet in Christ, in God’s sight, they are accepted and righteous. So we can say that we are more wicked than we ever dared believe, but more loved and accepted in...
Having come from a Catholic background...then through 30 years of emptiness and worse in the Charismatic churches I wanted to post a link to this article...
http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php?ArticleID=3523
And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim;
and he restored the altar of the Lord that was before the vestibule...
The more I understand the gospel and my salvation, the more wonderful these verses become to my heart. I personalize these words spoken by Isaiah concerning Israel in the future kingdom of the Messiah.
"O Lord, I will praise You;
Though You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away...
Waiting for Christ’s return
“The true Scriptural source of consolation, in the face of all that troubles us, is to keep steadily before our eyes the second coming of Christ.
We must grasp and realize the blessed fact that the rightful King of the world is returning soon, and shall have His own...
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in His mercy.
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.
For our heart shall rejoice in Him,
Because we have trusted in His holy...
Remember this, nothing below the conquest of bosom sins can make a jubilee in the heart. It is not a man's whining and complaining over sin--but his mortifying of sin, which will make his life a paradise of pleasure! --Thomas Brooks