Thursday, January 25, 2018

Hodge Podge for Jan 2018

If God should have no more mercy on us than we have charity to one another, what would become of us? —Thomas Fuller

The Bible is authoritative in regard to everything it addresses, and it addresses everything. --Van Til

I have put my soul, as a blank, into the hands of Jesus Christ my Redeemer, and desired Him to write upon it what he pleases. I know it will be His own image. — George Whitefield

A culture that is “spiritual but not religious”–made up of people who have mystical impulses but reject the existing organized religions–is a fertile ground for the introduction of new religions. --gv
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2018/01/new-religions-rushing-into-the-void-old-religions-rushing-off-the-cliff/

A commitment to holiness means having a life that is always ready for company and open for inspection. —Nancy Leigh DeMoss

If we, including our very Lord, are called to live "not by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from God's mouth," and if we must know that word in order to live by it, and if we cannot know it without reading it, we must read the word intensively and extensively to live as we should before God. --Andrew Sandlin
To say that some matter is too little to pray about is to say it's too little for God to care about. This is borderline blasphemy. The God who counts every human hair and sees every falling sparrow cares about every single detail of our lives. --Andrew Sandlin

those who claim the Lord's Supper is a simple memorial (a mental exercise recalling what Jesus did) would never say that a marriage is a simple memorial. A real transformation takes place in partaking.

“Gathered worship is our weekly celebration of victory that the war is won, that our enemy's head is crushed, and that our future is secure in our returning and conquering king.” —Burk Parsons

If we do not have the power of God in our lives, it may be because we are denying it; it may well be that we do not want God to interfere too much with our lifestyle.

You can have true Christian churches that don’t baptize the right way. You can have real Christian churches that sing the wrong kind of songs. You can have genuine Christian churches that have adopted unedifying forms of church government. But you can’t have Christian churches that have the wrong God. And biblical marriage is one of the creationally-established and central confessions of faith concerning the nature of God.--D Wilson
Male and female, man and woman—this is one of the central places we must look if we are to remember—as we must remember—that the triune God created the world. Not surprisingly, for those who would not have the triune God rule over them, this is the emblem that they must eradicate. The devil is playing the long game, and he is seeking to undo the great accomplishments of the early ecumenical councils, principally Nicea. He is attacking the symbol of our God as embodied in the Creed by attacking the image of our God as embodied in the marriage covenant.

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. —J. C. Ryle

Biblical change is not the absence of struggles but the freedom to choose holiness in the midst of our struggles. —Christopher Yuan

It is impossible to secure rights on the basis of an atheistic conception of man as a mere fact; yet human beings sense that they are something more. Science rejects those feelings of transcendence, even while politics places its whole trust in them. Atheistic anthropology is stuck in this dilemma, which it cannot solve. --Vladimir Solovyev

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/how-to-recognise-spiritual-abuse-8-warning-signs-for-churchesexecute1/123171.htm

https://zondervanacademic.com/blog/15-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-eternal-generation-of-the-son/

We cannot too much cultivate that spirit of love which disposes us to believe and hope the best we can of others. — John Newton

Remember, this is an inescapable concept. It is not whether but which. It is not whether a society will be theocratic, but rather which Theos (God, god) the theocratic society will have. It is not whether we will impose a morality, but rather which morality we will impose. It is not whether we will have blasphemy laws, but rather which blasphemy laws we will have. --dw

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth. —Jerry Bridges

Those who have been justified are now being sanctified; those who have no experience of present sanctification have no reason to suppose they have been justified. —F.F. Bruce

If whatever is not of faith is sin, if it is not possible to please God without faith, and if faith is nourished in expectation, not to live in expectation in all of life is sin. Simply put: The normal Christian life is one of unremitting expectation of God's working in our lives and in the world. --Andrew Sandlin

https://www.challies.com/vlog/why-i-pray-with-an-app-three-minute-thursdays-11/

T. S. Eliot poem that says we travel, in part, to return home and “know the place for the first time.”

It grieves me to say this, but the primary reason people are in bondage to sin is because people are bored with God. One of Satan’s most effective tactics is to convince us that God is a drag. —Sam Storms

When you combine African-American and Hispanic women you have only about ¼ of the female population in our country. Yet these two groups account for 57% of the abortions performed. Every day in America 1,300 black babies and 700 Hispanic babies are killed in America. Every day in America nearly 3,300 babies of all races are killed in America. --SS

Gathered worship is our weekly celebration of victory that the war is won, that our enemy’s head is crushed, and that our future is secure in our returning and conquering king. —Burk Parsons

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness, not by self-congratulation. —John Stott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvYh8ar3tc
the man who planted trees

The community of the saints is not an "ideal" community consisting of perfect and sinless men and women, where there is no need of further repentance. No, it is a community which proves that it is worthy of the gospel of forgiveness by constantly and sincerely proclaiming God's forgiveness. Sanctification means driving out the world from the Church as well as separating the Church from the world. But the purpose of such discipline is not to establish a community of the perfect, but a community consisting of men who really live under the forgiving mercy of God. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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