March 13, 2008
March 27, 2007
Irresistible Christ
A lot of people imagine that the doctrine of God's sovereignty has Him somehow forcing people against their wills to believe. Theologians sometimes use the expression "irresistible grace" when they describe the way God brings sinners into the kingdom. Don't think for a moment that there is any kind of violent fervor or coercion involved when God draws people to Christ. Grace doesn't push sinners against their wills toward Christ; it draws them willingly to Him--by first opening their hearts. It enables them to see their sin for what it is and empowers them to despise what they formerly loved. It also equips them to see Christ for who He truly is. Someone whose heart has been opened like that will inevitably find Christ Himself irresistible. That is precisely the meaning of the expression "irresistible grace." That is how God draws sinners to Himself. The Lord simply opened her heart to believe--and she did.
JOHN MACARTHUR
Twelve Extraordinary Women
(The book was worth the read for that definition of irresistible grace. wow.)
January 02, 2007
quote.01
God’s love planned an amazing exchange: Jesus endured what we deserved so that we might enjoy what he deserved—eternal life.
JOHN PIPER
What Jesus Demands from the World
May 02, 2006
January 31, 2006
Quote.05
Any servant who tries to get off the divine dole and strike up a manly partnership with His heavenly master is in revolt against the Creator. God does not barter.
JOHN PIPER
September 22, 2005
September 01, 2005
quote.35 - missions conference 2005
People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives. . . and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.
NATE SAINT
August 24, 2005
quote.34
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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you
little in comparison with eternal realities.
ROBERT M. MCHEYNE
August 17, 2005
quote.33
We must do something about the cross,
and one of two things only we can do—
flee it or die upon it.
A. W. TOZER
August 02, 2005
July 28, 2005
July 18, 2005
July 15, 2005
quote.28
The law breaks the hard heart, but the gospel melts it. A stone duly broken, may be still a hard stone; but the gospel melts.
RALPH ERSKINE
hat tip: GGCG who got it from Puritan Sermons. Both are great reads, by the way.
June 21, 2005
quote.25
Earth is crammed with heaven,
And every bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit around and pluck blackberries.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
June 15, 2005
quote.24
No man can take a survey of himself but he must immediately turn to the contemplation of God in whom he lives and moves.
JOHN CALVIN
June 07, 2005
quote.23
Love's hard as nails,
Love is nails;
Blunt, thick hammered through
The medial nerves of One
Who, haveing made us, knew
The thing He had done,
Seeing, (with all that is)
Our cross and His.
C. S. LEWIS
May 31, 2005
May 23, 2005
quote.21
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
E. M. BOUNDS
May 19, 2005
quote.20
The devil sleeps not neither is the flesh yet dead; therefore cease not to prepare yourself for battle; for on your right hand and on your left are enemies who never rest.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
May 13, 2005
May 02, 2005
quote.18
There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely difficult to find, of living every day as though it were our last, and yet living in faith and responsibility as though there were to be a great future.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Letters and Papers from Prison
April 25, 2005
quote.17
When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour.
WILLIAM CAREY
on his deathbed
April 19, 2005
quote.16
I deserve death, but I have life.
I deserve nothing, but I have truth.
I deserve hell, but I have heaven.
A LITTLE CARD I CARRY AROUND IN MY POCKET
April 11, 2005
April 01, 2005
quote.13
I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all.
But whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
MARTIN LUTHER
February 28, 2005
quote.08
If Christ does not reign over the mundane events in our lives, He does not reign at all.
PAUL TRIPP
February 22, 2005
quote.07
Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else.
The real question to ask is: "Where is the Salt?"
JOHN STOTT
The Message of the Sermon on the Mount
February 14, 2005
quote.06
If I see a mandman driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders, then I can't as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try and wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
February 08, 2005
quote.05
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends it or not . . . a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral charectars.
THOMAS CHALMERS
January 25, 2005
quote.04
'Twas I that shed the Sacred Blood.
I nailed Him to the tree.
I crucified the Christ of God.
I joined the mockery.
HORATIUS BONAR
January 18, 2005
quote.03
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.
AMY CARMICHEAL
January 10, 2005
January 03, 2005
December 29, 2004
quote.52
Come learn the lesson of the rod:
The treasure we have found in God.
He is not poor nor much enticed
who loses everything but Christ.
JOHN PIPER
The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God
December 21, 2004
quote.51
Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, “in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
MARTIN LUTHER