Life and Faith

Tag: Quote

  • Exploring The Habits of The Christian Life: Reading The Bible For Application

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    In recent time I’ve been exploring what modern Christianity would call the ‘spiritual disciplines’. These are the habits, the actions, the lifestyle, the regular practices, which shape spiritual formation for the self. As you can imagine these practices are centred around the Word and prayer. However, they also bring with them other practices that can…

  • Spurgeon on The Psalms

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    Across the centuries the Psalms have provided inspiration, encouragement, comfort, and consolation for many Christians. The Psalms reflect the prayer and praise of ancient Israel, and speak to our head and our heart. Perhaps due to its poetic nature, the Psalms lead us toward a devotional life with God. We find an amazing array of…

  • Melito of Sardis On The Incarnation

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    Preaching 1 John 3:19-4:6 this past Sunday meant I touched upon the doctrine of the incarnation. In referring to the early defenders of this doctrine I quoted Melito of Sardis. He died toward the end of the second century and wrote about the incarnation this way: “Though he [the Son of God] was incorporeal, he…

  • Hudson Taylor On Love

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    “One thing, and one thing only, will carry men through all, and make and keep them successful; the love of Christ constraining and sustaining them is the only power. Not our love to Christ, nor, perhaps, even Christ’s love to us personally; rather His love to poor ruined sinners in us. Many waters will not…

  • Jonathan Edwards On The Nature Of Conversion

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    Jonathan Edwards on conversion, in A Faithful Narrative of The Surprising Work of God: These gracious discoveries given, whence the first special comforts are derived, are in many respects very various. More frequently, Christ is distinctly made the object of the mind, in his all-sufficiency and willingness to save sinners; but some have their thoughts…

  • A Church Growth Strategy?

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    A quote attributed to Fr. Brou in an article by Archer Torrey. Perhaps a new church growth strategy for the post-Christendom church? The only sure foundations for a young church are the graves of its missionaries Ouch.

  • God and Vocation

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    Aimee Byrd recently wrote a little post about vocation, with a pretty cool story to go with it, and used a Gene Veith quote. I thought it was relevant to yesterday’s post on where God is. …vocation is played out not just in the extraordinary acts—the great things we will do for the Lord, the…

  • Richard Baxter On The Pastor and Recreation

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    Richard Baxter on recreation for the minister: “Recreation to a minister must be as whetting is with the mower – that is, to be used only so far as is necessary for his work. May a physician in plague-time take any more relaxation or recreation than is necessary for his life, when so many are expecting…