Mark Dever, quoted by Trevin Wax, as we prepare to heed the call to worship that grace enables us to obey: Christian brothers and sisters, do you climb up the church steps every Sunday burdened with guilt, as if there’s some way you need to perform on a Sunday morning in order for God to …
“Love is holy because it is like grace – the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.” Gilead Marilynne Robinson. I have not read this book too quickly because I’m not in a hurry for it to end.
Good words from Graham Nicholson at the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church blog on the danger of reducing response to rules. An excerpt: When the heart is focused on keeping rules as rules and not as a response to God or his grace, it is necessarily focused on one’s self and is blinded to true holiness. Jesus …
David Robertson is a pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church in Scotland. In late 2011 he almost died. Here he provides an extended testimony of healing and God’s power and presence. He’s entitled it: The Shelter of the Most High – New Year, Old Hope. I don’t want to excerpt any of it. Read it …
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