| . . . 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?
I'm reading David Platt's little book, Radical. Here is a quote that calls us to self-examination: "Think about it. Would you say that your life is marked right now by desperation for the Spirit of God? Would you say that the church you are a part of is characterized by this sense of desperation?"
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 | |
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