“Our need of
Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation
to Him or to God through Him ever alter, not matter what our attainments in
Christian graces or our achievements in Christian behavior may be. It is always
in His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest. There is never
anything that we are or have or do that can take His place, or that can take
place along with him. We are always unworthy, and all that we have or do of
good is always of pure grace.” - - B. B. Warfield, Works, vol 7, p. 113
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
For the Lord's Day
“Grace
makes sense to us only in light of the sin to which it provides the remedy.
Consequently, the more sensitive we are to sin, misery and danger, the more
clearly we will grasp the wonder of God’s salvation. Grace is only ‘amazing’
when we see that it is ‘a wretch like me’ it saves. Only sinners seek Jesus as
a Savior!” ~ Dr. Sinclair Ferguson in Puritans – Ministers of the World
Sunday, July 17, 2011
For the Lord's Day
“The
Trinity puts personhood at the very center of existence, originating with God.
God is not a solitary being, eternally lonely until he creates us. God is
independent and does not need us, because He is both one and three… This
Trinitarian God establishes my sense of personal identity within reality. The
distinction between the creature and the Creator reflects the very nature of
God, in which divine distinctions are made within organic personal unity.” ~ Peter Jones in One or Two: Seeing a World of Difference
Sunday, July 3, 2011
For the Lord's Day - Communion Sunday
“The Lord’s Supper is not for all indiscriminately as
the gospel is. The Lord’s Supper is chiefly commemoration and communion. It is
for those who discern the Lord’s body, who can commemorate his death in faith
and love. And since the supper is also Communion it is obviously for those who
commune with Christ and with one another in the unity of the body which is the
church…. It is part of the whole counsel of God that those conditions be
clearly and insistently set forth, to the end that those who are eligible
partake and those who are not refrain.” -- John Murray, Collected Writings
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