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. . . not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the priceless blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 1 Peter 1:18-19 "How do you mean to live? With these precious things about you, do you intend to live like a beggar? I mean, will you be sinful, low, groveling, worldly? Oh, rise to your rank, and as you are so ennobled, walk as becomes saints! Is Jesus Christ precious to you? Then serve Him with your best, give Him your precious things, give Him your lives, give Him your substance, give Him all that you have. Do not give the Redeemer your odds and ends, such as you can afford to give without knowing it. Say, 'He died to give me Himself. I will give Him myself in return.' . . . Go and live like those who are rich to all the intents of bliss, and let your cheerful, your godly, your self-denying example be a protest to the unbelieving sons of men that you know the preciousness of Christ." Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, 1950), IV:393. No cheap salvation is a post from: Ray Ortlund |
Thursday, March 31, 2011
No Cheap Salvation, quoted from Charles Spurgeon
Desperate for God?
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
On Proper Fear-- Fear is good for us!
| Fear and the Last Judgment Source: thegospelcoalition.org In the excerpt below, Peter Hitchins (Christopher's brother) explains how God used an artistic interpretation of the Last Judgment to bring him to faith. |  |
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Jonathan Edwards on Heaven
| Heaven Is a World of Love Source: thegospelcoalition.org Most people know Jonathan Edwards as the guy who preached hellfire and brimstone sermons like "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." But fewer realize that the pastor from Northampton, Massachusetts also preached sermons like this one, called "Heaven is a World of Love. |
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Hell and Heaven: I've been thinking a lot about heaven and hell lately because of Rob Bell's challenge to the historic, orthodox, Biblical teaching about them. I was greatly struck with the awfulness of rejecting Christ as I prepared and preached fro
| In the link, meat from Jonathan Edwards on heaven and hell. Today is the anniversary of this great servant of Christ's death in 1758. | |
| Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell Source: thegospelcoalition.org | |
Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
fyi...
| Panel at Southern Seminary on Thursday Source: thegospelcoalition.org On Thursday, from 2:30-4:00 PM (Eastern), Southern Seminary will be livestreaming, a panel discussion on Rob Bell's Love Wins. |  |
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Popular Pastor, Rob Bell, Cuts and Pastes the Bible: Dr. Mohler's article is a must-read!
We Have Seen All This Before: Rob Bell and the (Re)Emergence of Liberal Theology
In this new book, Rob Bell takes his stand with those who have tried to rescue Christianity from itself. This is a massive tragedy by any measure.
read moreTuesday, March 15, 2011
Do I Thirst for the Living God? I pray that I do and will!
A Panting Prayer
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? Psalm 42:1-2
Loving Jesus, there's no craving more demanding than thirst. It's neither patient nor polite. When we get thirsty, we're usually quick to slake its unrelenting demand, one way or another. Thirst will not be denied. We'll do almost anything to satisfy our thirst.
Because this is true, we join the Psalmist in crying out, "Jesus, intensify our thirst for you. Keep us panting like the deer which pants after streams of water—the unpolluted, undistilled, never-ending brooks of your bounty.
Quickly drain the broken-cisterns of our own making. Don't let us be even momentarily satisfied with any other beverage than the draft you draw, the potion you pour, the life-giving libation you alone can give.
If we take up King David's lament, "When can I go and meet with God?", you answer back, without delay, "Right now, my beloved, do not wait. If you're thirsty, come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, streams of living water will flow from within him." (John 7:38)
If we should say, "But Jesus, where can we find you?" You answer back even quicker, "Not in the Law; not in your strivings; not in your labors; not in your earnestness; not in your self-loathing's; not in your vain promises, but only in the gospel. Come and fall into the rivers of my love. Stand under the cascading waterfalls of my grace. Open your heart wide to my supply and I will over-fill you with everything you need and more than you want."
Even so and evermore, Jesus, school us well in pant-theology. Fill us afresh than we might be a people to the praise of your glory and grace. So very Amen, we pray, in your all glorious and all generous name.
Source URL: http://www.challies.com/quotes/a-panting-prayer
