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A couple of quotes from a John Piper sermon I am reading:
Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by […]
In light of the recent hoorah on the supposed tomb of Christ being discovered in Israel, it is good to consider how intimately the resurrection of Christ is connected to the outworking of God’s grace in our lives. We’ve arrived at the end of our “quoted review” of The Great Work of the Gospel: […]
The goodness of Good Friday was proclaimed long before that day…
Psalm 22
Some consider it a great historical irony that Christendom calls the anniversary of the day that the son of God was unjustly executed on a roman cross Good Friday. John Ensor explains the goodness of Good Friday in our next quote from The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace:
Why […]
Continuing our “review in quotes” of The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace, John Ensor examines how an active, true work of the Gospel in a person’s soul will evidence itself beyond the borders of our inner being and suffuse the world with God’s glory. “What good is it, my […]
In today’s quote from The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace, John Ensor shows us that Christ’s substitutionary atonement for us is not a statement of our worth and value to God, but is a statement of the greatness of God’s mercy:
Someone may object, “God loves me. Christ died for […]
My wife pointed me to The Purple Cellar for an excerpt from Iain Duguid’s commentary on Numbers:
Why is it that we give in to sin and disobedience so often, even though we know what are doing is wrong? . . . The underlying dynamic that drives our sin is unbelief. . . . We have […]
Continuing our quoted review of The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace by John Ensor, here is a quote from the first chapter, “The Great Work Considered”:
In searching out the grace of God according to the Bible, it does not take long to be surprised. The apostle Paul said, “For […]
I am currently reading an excellent book by John Ensor called The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace. This is an excellent work on how the transforming work of the Gospel is experienced and how we are to comprehend and apprehend God’s grace.
In celebration of passover week, I will be […]
I remember reading a few years ago a sermon by John Piper where he reiterated some of the lessons that he learned from his father. I was moved by this sermon, and greatly encouraged in my own work of fathering my own children by looking at the example of William S. H. Piper. […]
John Piper has a new release called God Is the Gospel.
Here’s the blurb:
“Gospel” means good news—but what makes the good news good? What is the goal of the gospel, without which it is no longer good? It is that Christ’s death brings sinners to God! Were it to bring us anywhere else we would be […]
C.J. Mahaney (my former senior pastor) releases his newest book this month, entitled Humility: True Greatness. My “must buy” list gets one entry deeper.
A blurb:
Be Transformed by Christ’s Example “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” - 1 Peter 5:5 A battle rages within every one of us every day. It’s […]
I have just taken a late Christmas eve break to put the final touches on our annual end of the year letter. A break from what you ask? A break from a Christmas eve ritual that resonates with just about every parent in America. A trial of faith that unites me with men across the globe and in generations past. A trial that is known by just three little words that resonate in the soul:
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