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"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6
John Flavel has long been one of my favorite puritan authors. This is one of his profound quotes that has stayed with me over the years. “The grand inquest of conscience is, is God satisfied? If he be satisfied, I am satisfied.” – John Flavel, The Fountain of Life, Sermon XI, 149
The Power of Why March 2, 2009 Sometime last year, Judah began asking a very basic but world-creating question: “What’s that?” He would encounter some unknown object and would simultaneously point at it and look up at me with a look of hopeful curiosity: “Wuh-tat, Daddy?” I would turn toward the object and kneel down…
Moment #1 Click here for the message I am referencing. At the 26 minute mark is the gift Pastor Blankenship gave us, when he read this I’ll admit I was kind of wandering off but when he quoted the Hebrews text it was like a punch in the gut I almost lost my breath! At…
The Girl with Purple Hair Why’d she have to smile? The girl with purple hair smiled at me today. The girl with the purple hair and nose ring and black lipstick passed me on the sidewalk and smiled. Why’d she have to smile? I was so ready to despise her tromping along in those…
Jesus’ Unbelieving Brothers March 3, 2009 | By: Jon Bloom Do you, like me, have family members who do not believe in Jesus? If so, we are in good company. So did Jesus. And I think this is meant to give us hope. According to the Apostle John, “not even his brothers believed in him”…
God always does what is most glorifying for Himself God always does what is most loving for us. What is most glorifying for God is what is most loving for us. God is glorified in the glory of the Son. The Son is glorified through believing.
I am rejoicing in the doctrine of the trinity this week in a new way. I was pondering the attributes of God [my wife, Rosa has been reading A.W. Tozer’s The Attributes of God :)] The ONE true God has existed eternally in three persons. If this were not so then many of His attributes…
The Gospel is the Antidote to Everything Once there were two brothers. You know their story, more than likely. One was wasteful, exploitative, wanton, licentious. One was rigid, moralistic, uptight, legalistic. Two brothers with two personalities and two sets of attendant sins. But their father loved them both and all that he had belonged to…
Horatius Bonar, writing the preface to John Gillies’ Accounts of Revival, describes true men of God as possessing the following nine characteristics: 1. They were in earnest about the great work on which they had entered: “They lived and labored and preached like men on whose lips the immortality of thousands hung.” 2. They were…