My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek. Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Ps 27:8-9 “How can a man extinguish pride? By knowing God. For if we know of him, all pride is diminished.” Chrysostom Humility is not one of our most venerated values. The self-made man, who pulls himself up by his bootstraps and conquers all opponents by his superior...
On the far side of every risk- even if it results in death- the love of God triumphs. This is the faith that frees us to risk for the cause of God. It is not heroism, or lust for adventure, or courage or self-reliance, or efforts to earn God’s favor. It is childlike faith in the triumph of God’s love- that on the other side of all our risks, for the sake of righteousness, God will still be holding us....
My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, O LORD, I will seek. Ps 27:8 “These sacred Words give you the very image of Christ speaking, healing, dying, rising again and make him so present, that were he before your eyes you would not more truly see him.” Erasmus In our earlier studies, we indicated that verse 7 marks a significant change in the character of this psalm. Before, God is spoken “about.” From now on, he is spoken “to.”...
“Sanctify them by your truth. Your Word is truth.” John 17:17 Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather Truth spelled with a capital “T.” Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality- and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth. Francis Schaeffer Troubled times cry out for tested truth. When faith in our foundations falter and the wisdom of the...
R C Ryle has been described as one of the greatest of the Victorian evangelicals. His successor at Liverpool, England, was F.J.Chevasse. He described Ryle as “that man of granite, with the heart of a child. Charles Spurgeon, described him as “the best man in the Church of England.” Another writer described him as a “theological vertebrate” who never suffered what Ryle called “boneless, nerveless, jellyfish condition of soul.” I found his book, Practical Religion, filled with solid spiritual food,...
“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, Sovereign over all, does not cry: Mine!” Abraham Kuyper We have been trying to show that the walk of faith is in fact a fight for joy. This is crucial to know so that we can prepare for battle, and when we find ourselves in the midst of a fire fight, we can know that it is not something unusual that is happening to...
“Hear my voice when I call, O LORD; be merciful to me and answer me.” Ps 27:7 The church has many organizers but few agonizers; many who pay, but few who pray; many resters, but few wrestlers; many who are enterprising, but few who are interceding. A worldly Christian will stop praying and a praying Christian will stop worldliness. Tithes may build a church but tears will give it life. That is “the difference between the modern church and the early...
GIVE ME THAT BOOKA DEVOTIONAL DESIGN FOR 2009BY DR. GARY RIEBEN “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Phil 3:13-14 Spiritual growth does not happen by chance nor is it passive. It happens as we deliberately respond to the work of the Holy Spirit upon our lives. We are to actively grow by pursuing...
Prayer and the Scourges of God “Hear my voice when I call, O LORD; be merciful to me and answer me.” Ps 27:7 “It is necessary that we should be subject, from first to last, to the scourges of God, in order that we may from the heart call on him; for our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.” John Calvin God uses our prayers in the midst of our problems to manifest...
The coddled Western world will sooner or later give way to great affliction. And when it does, whose God will hold? Where are Christians being prepared for great global sorrows? Where is the Christian mind and soul being prepared for horrors to come? Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. God is weightless in our lives. He is not terrifying magnificent. His sovereignty is secondary [at best] to his sensitivity. John Piper: ...
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