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Owen on Heart and Mind

Tue, 13 May 2008 06:11:42 GMT

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"When the heart is cast indeed into the mold of the doctrine that the mind embraces, when the evidence and necessity of the truth abides in us, when not the sense of the words only is in our heads, but the sense of the thing abides in our hearts, when we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for--then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men." (John Owen)

Tags: doctrine, heart, affections, mind

MLJ on Doctrine During Difficulty

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:36:23 GMT

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"In a situation of difficulty and of crisis, the first thing we must do it to make sure that we have grasped the New Testament teaching. I do not want to be controversial, and I am particularly anxious not to be misunderstood, but if I may put it in a phrase, in order to call attention to what I have in mind, I would say that in a situation of crisis the New Testament does not immediately say, 'Let us pray.' It always says first, 'Let us think, let us understand the truth, let us take a firm hold of the doctrine.'...Prayer is sometimes an excuse for not thinking, an excuse for avoiding a problem or a situation."

(D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Life in Christ: Studies in 1 John, 16)

Tags: doctrine, prayer, suffering, trials

Edwards on Cultivating Humility When Wronged

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:08:57 GMT

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"Do you think the injuries you have received from your fellow-man are more than you have offered to God? Has your enemy been more base, more unreasonable, more ungrateful, than you have to the High and Holy One? Have his offenses been more heinous or aggravated, or more in number, than yours have been against your Creator, Benefactor, and Redeemer? Have they been more provoking and exasperating than your sinful conduct has been to him who is the author of all our mercies, and to whom you are under the highest obligations?"

Tags: sin, humility

Piper on the Value of Memorizing Scripture

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:23:17 GMT

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Clip Source: theologica.blogspot.com

You may doubt that you can do this, especially if you are older. But ask yourself this question, If I offered you $1,000 for every verse you memorized in the next week, how many do you think you could memorize? Yet God says of his word in Psalm 19:10-11, "They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them Thy servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward." The real value of the word is far greater than $1,000 a verse. The question is, Do you believe this? Believing this will be the crucial motivation you need.

Tags: bible, meditation

MLJ on Philosophical Musings and Reality

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:54:45 GMT

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"You can be so interested in great theological and intellectual and philosophical problems that you tend to forget that you are going to die."

-Martin Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, p. 193.

Tags: life, philosophy, reality

Anyabwile on Virtue and Its Impostors

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:47:20 GMT

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Clip Source: purechurch.blogspot.com

Three things confuse a Christian;

Yeah, four confound any man.

Unbelief masquerading as wisdom,

Enthusiasm presenting itself as faith,

Fear pretending to be patience,

and permissiveness claiming to be love.

Tags: wisdom, faith, patience, love

Wesley on Gray Issues

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:17:09 GMT

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Susannah Wesley in a letter to her son John Wesley:

“Whatever weakens your reason,
whatever impairs the tenderness of your conscience,
whatever obscures your sense of God,
whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind,
whatever takes away your relish for spiritual things…
that to you is sin, no matter how innocent it is in itself.”

Tags: sin, wisdom

Piper on the Uniqueness of Christianity

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:38:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Acts 17:24-25

Clip Source: www.tabulas.com

"The uniqueness at the heart of Christianity is the glory of God manifest in the freedom of grace. God is glorious because He does not need the nations to work for Him. He is free to work for them... The difference between the true God and the gods of the nations is that the true God carries and the other gods must be carried. God serves; they must be served. God glorifies His might by showing mercy."

Tags: piper, glory