- The Importance of Church Disciplie Samuel Miller
It is no doubt true, that the very suggestion of the necessity and importance of discipline in the church is odious to many who bear the Christian name.
The worldly and …
- Heart-Eating Anxieties John Newton
We have liberty to express our desires to the Lord; but the more simply we can commit the how, the when, and the where, to his wisdom and will, the more we shall be freed …
- Our Part is Submission John Newton
Now that the Lord has made known his will by the event—our part is submission.
- A Modest Cottage with Books Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than …
- Steve Jobs on Abortion Steve Jobs
I wanted to meet my biological mother mostly to see if she was okay and to thank her, because I’m glad I didn’t end up as an abortion.
- The Lord’s Political Instruments John Newton
The instruments whom the Lord employs in political matters are usually such as are incapable of better employment.
- Impatience in my Spirit John Newton
I have felt an impatience in my spirit, utterly unsuitable to my state as a sinner and a beggar, and to my profession of yielding myself and all my concerns to the Lord’s …
- What Thou Wilt, When Thou Wilt, How Thou Wilt John Newton
Help me with your prayers, that I may trust him too, and be at length enabled to say without reserve,
What thou wilt, when thou wilt, how thou wilt.
I had rather speak …
- Task of a Church Member Tim Challies
Your task as a member of a church is not only to avoid disunity, but to actively pursue unity.
- Sinner, Pray Hard Martin Luther
Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.
- Spurgeon on Prayer Meetings Charles Spurgeon
Brethren, we shall never see much change for the better in our churches till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
- Malapert Discussions John Newton
What must the holy angels, who, with holy admiration, contemplate the wisdom and glory of God displayed in the gospel; what must they think of the arrogance of sinful …
- No Great Matter Where We Are John Newton
It is no great matter where we are, provided we know that the Lord has placed us there, and that he is with us!
- Imitation of Christ John Calvin
Yet [1 John] does not simply exhort us to imitate Christ; but from the union we have with him, he proves that we ought to be like him.
- Pray for Sinners Thomas Watson
If you pity an ox or an ass going astray, will you not pity a soul going astray from God, who has lost his way and his wits, and is upon the precipice of damnation.
Nay, …
- Living in Dependence on Him J. Ligon Duncan
God will continually put His people into situations where they must live in dependence on Him expressed through prayer.
- Idle Bellies John Calvin
We must observe, however, with what titles of distinction he honors pastors.
In the first place, he says that they labor. From this it follows, that all idle bellies are …
- Ecclesiastical Tunnel Vision Edmund Clowney
According to the Bible, the church is the people of God, the assembly and body of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Each of these views of the church has …
- The Benefit of Trials John Newton
I have indeed had my trials, and some of them have been sharp; but their sharpness, as I have hinted, has been chiefly owing to my lack of faith and submission.
I have …
- Comfort from Sovereignty John Newton
When heavy trials in life are appointed to us, and we are called to give up, or perhaps to pluck out, a right eye—it is an easy matter for a bystander to say ‘Be …
- Use of Creation William Greenhill
Six ways that we can use God’s creation well and right.
Use all things for the end that God has made them [for the glory of God]. Walk with God in the use of the world …
- Trifles Once Discouraging John Newton
The hour is coming when we shall be astonished to think what mere trifles were once capable of discouraging us for though many things we now meet with have a kind of …
- Laying Up Treasures in Heaven William Greenhill
Men can endure any difficulty and danger to get estates, but they will hardly endure anything to get heaven, grace, or an interest in Christ.
- Judgmental Christians John Newton
Conversation with most Christians is something like going to court; where, except you are dressed exactly according to the prescribed standard, you will either not be …
- The Patient Guidance of God John Newton
Indeed we may admire His patience towards us.
If we were blind, and reduced to desire a person to lead us, and should yet pretend to dispute with him, and direct him at …
- The Benefits of a Resident Minister John Newton
A minister, who lives among his people, who sees and converses with them frequently, and exemplifies his doctrine in their view by his practice, having knowledge of their …
- Wait His Leisure Georg Neumark
Only be still, and wait his leisure In cheerful hope, with heart content To take whate’er thy Father’s pleasure And all deserving love hath sent; Nor doubt our inmost …
- Children Praying Our Father? Sinclair Ferguson
For, despite protests to the contrary, it is difficult to see how evangelicals can, with theological consistency, teach their children to say ‘Our Father’ and to sing …
- Christ is in None of These Ways John Owen
Some men rejoice in others’ failings; they are malicious and fail more in that sinful joy than their brethren in that which they rejoice at.
Some are angry at weaknesses …
- He Does Not Cease to Plead John Owen
He does not cease to plead on our behalf, despite our continual backsliding (1 John 2:1–2).
- The Strongest Christians Timothy Keller
If someone is criticizing you and the criticism is mostly mistaken, identify the 20 percent of the indictment that is fair. Without excuse be willing to take it to heart. …
- Footsteps of Christ John Owen
Meekness, patience, forbearance, and forgiveness, hiding, covering, removing of offenses—these are the footsteps of Christ.
Do you see your brother fail? Pity him. Does …
- Love Be Our Guide John Owen
Let pity, not envy… mercy, not malice… patience, not passion… Christ, not flesh… grace, not nature… pardon, not spite or revenge…
…be our guides and companions in our …
- Jesus is Mine! John Newton
Jesus is mine! I’m now prepared To meet with what I thought most hard; Yes, let the winds of trouble blow, And comforts melt away like snow:
No blasted trees, or failing …
- The Early Christians J. Gresham Machen
The early Christians, to the astonishment of their neighbors, lived a strange new kind of life—a life of honesty, of purity and of unselfishness.
- Biblical Presbyterianism Richard Gaffin
Biblical presbyterianism has no place for loyalties torn between the denomination and the local congregation, or for greater loyalty to either one.
- Character and Doctrine John Owen
If a man teaches uprightly and walks crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
- Pray for the Church John Owen
He who does not continue to pray for the Lord’s glory to remain on the church is not worthy of its privileges. Prayer, then, for the good, prosperity, flourishing peace, …
- A House of Rest in a Weary World J. Gresham Machen
Is there no place where two or three can gather in Jesus name, … to forget human pride, to forget the passions of war, to forget the puzzling problems of industrial …
- Church Visible and Invisible Darryl Hart
Stonehouse believed that the great Protestant temptation was to conceive of church unity in strictly spiritual terms, thus finding adherence to Christ’s teaching through …
- Little Sins J. Gresham Machen
It’s through the ’little sins’ that Satan gains an entrance into our lives.
- Practice What is Good John Owen
Every day I am more persuaded of this because I see men for the most part spending their strength and time more to oppose things they disagree with than to practice the …
- Above All, Humility Augustine of Hippo
Not that there are no other precepts to give but if humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are meaningless.
- Jesus Must Increase James Dennison
Your maneuvering for power, for influence, for position, for status, for wealth, for reputation of the present is a contradiction of the eschatological nature of life in …
- Stay the Course Herman Bavinck
Preservation of the saints is also both gift and task. The New Testament repeatedly admonishes believers to remain faithful, to stay true to their Savior and Lord. At the …
- End of Fear Matthew Henry
The clearer sight we have of the sovereignty and power of heaven the less we shall fear the calamities of this earth.
- The Greatest Kindness Matthew Henry
The greatest kindness we can do for those that are fearful and faint-hearted is to pray for them, and so to recommend them to the mighty grace of God.
- Knowledge and Knowledge John Bunyan
There is, therefore, knowledge and knowledge. Knowledge that resteth in the bare speculation of things; and knowledge that is accompanied with the grace of faith and …
- Bavinck on Rosseau Herman Bavinck
In the eighteenth century, Rousseau became the apostle of a ‘back to nature movement’ that repudiated human culture as the source of all evil. If only, in education, …
- Hasty and Censorious Spirit John Newton
Surely much of that hasty and censorious spirit, too often observable in young converts, arises from their having, as yet—a very imperfect acquaintance with the …