Monthly Archives: September 2014

“From dead works as well as from acts of sin we must be purged through the blood of the covenant ere our service can be pleasing to God.” (William Arnot 1808-1875)

“One major cause of anxiety is money—too much of it or too little. The rich worry about losing it and the poor worry about getting it. Money in itself is morally neutral; rather, it is the love of money which … Continue reading →

“I dare add, with the apostle, that He who has begun this good work in you, will perfect it till the day of Jesus Christ. It is not in vain that He has rescued you from so many troubles, saved … Continue reading →

“If God laid all degrees of our blessedness up in Himself, before the world, much more before we were in the world, who does not see that all our salvation comes freely to us, both in promise and accomplishment, not … Continue reading →

“Examine carefully your daily household life, your intercourse with the world, and the ordinary strain of your thinking, speaking, and conduct; and see if there be not much in them concerning which you must confess, ‘This is not as it … Continue reading →

“Let the resolution of the prophet be thine,” I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” William Greenhill (1591-1671)

“The gulf which divides the Creator from the creature is wide, and no created mind has analyzed God’s being or measured the ways of His counsel.” (Klass Schilder 1890-1952)

“A God full of compassion; that is, infinitely compassionate, and, as it were, affected with our misery. He is gracious, though we be unworthy: he is long-suffering, although we be given to strife and provocation of him; and how great … Continue reading →

“Justification is a judicial but gracious act of God by which a sinner is absolved from the guilt of sin, is freed from condemnation, and has a right to eternal life, adjudged, merely for the sake of our Lord’s obedience, … Continue reading →

“The more knowledge of God he hath , the more he discovers his ignorance; the more love to God, the more he finds and is ashamed of his enmity.” (Stephen Charnock 1628-1680)