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brother MichaelConsider, is it not better to remember your sins on earth, than in Hell? Before your Physician, than before your Judge? . . . O wretch, that I am! Where was my understanding, when played so boldly with the flames of hell, the wrath of God, the poison of sin! When God stood by, and [...]
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Posted: September 4, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: church, Religion, Sin, Quotes, Faith, Bible, Theology, Apologetics, Blog, Quote, Blogging, Richard Baxter, Puritan, Puritans
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Posted: September 2, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetcis, Atheism, Atheist, Bible, Christianity, church, Creation, Faith, God, Jesus, Pilgrim, Pilgrims, Puritan, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Stephen Charnock, Theology
If you take away God, you take away conscience, and thereby all measures and rules of good and evil. And how can any law be made when the measure and standard of them are removed? All good laws are founded upon the dictates of conscience and reason, upon common sentiments in human nature, which spring [...]
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Posted: September 1, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: false prophets, Christianity, Catholicism, church, Religion, Apostasy, Quotes, heresy, Bible, God, Apologetics, False Teachers, Quote, Gospel, false prophet, False Teacher, Mike Gendron, Blogging
Our primary mission field today is within the church. The latest survey reveals that 86% of Americans say they believe in Jesus. Yet, a much smaller percentage of people say they are born-again Christians. How can so many people be deceived or deluded? Many of them have been told by misguided pastors or evangelists that [...]
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Posted: August 30, 2010 by Coram Deo in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: Discernment, Paul, study helps, read, ancient voices
“When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.” - 2 Timothy 4:13 We do not know what the books were about, and we can only form some guess as to what the parchments were. Paul had a few books which were left, perhaps [...]
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Posted: August 29, 2010 by Coram Deo in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: Sin, do not be conformed to the world, worldliness, Conformed to the image of Christ, purity, personal holiness
“All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.” – Numbers 6:4 Nazarites had taken, among other vows, one which debarred them from the use of wine. In order that they might not violate the obligation, they were forbidden to [...]
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Posted: August 23, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
Before the mountains were brought forth – or the earth and world were formed, from everlasting Jesus Christ was, like the Father, very God. From the beginning He was foreordained to be the Savior of sinners. He was always the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, without whose blood there could be no [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2010 by fourpointer in Charismania, New Age Nonsense, Occult, Prosperity Pimps, QuotesTags: Ecstasis, Charismatic Chaos, Oswald Chambers, If Thou Wilt Be Perfect, visions, emotional worship
“As long as we use the image of our experience, of our feelings, of our answers to prayer, we shall never begin to understand what the apostle Paul means when he says, “It is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me.” The whole exercise of humanity’s essential reason is drawing on God [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Randall Easter, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Theology
Here’s the great fall out of the evangelical church: “People aren’t getting it [the gospel], let’s make it more understandable.” “I know, let’s get a neat package we could sell at Life Way. We could call it the ABCs. Surely they could understand that.” “I know, we’ll do a twelve step formula. Boy, if they [...]
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Posted: August 18, 2010 by The Pilgrim in C.H. Spurgeon, Quotes, Roman CatholicismTags: Spurgeon!, Christianity, Catholicism, church, Pope, Indulgences, Virgin Mary, Quotes, Bible, God, Jesus, Reformation, Theology, Apologetics, Mary, Quote, Gospel, Martin Luther, Luther, Romish, Charles Spurgeon, C. H. Spurgeon, Indulgence, Celestine, Celestine V
The thick pollutions of thine abominable [Roman Catholic] church forbid the idea of descent from any apostle but the traitor Judas. – Charles Spurgeon 1834 – 1892
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Posted: August 16, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, Christianity, church, Conservative, Democrat, God, Jesus, John Ashbrook, Liberal, Moral Majority, Politics, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Religious Right, Republican, Theology
A few years ago the Moral Majority was the rage. The expressed goals of the group appealed to fundamentalists who were against pornography, homosexuality, and abortion and were for restoring morality, strengthening defense, and opposing communism. Why not join in? Answer: It would not practice biblical separation. Any fundamentalist knows that we are a minority. [...]
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Posted: August 13, 2010 by fourpointer in False Christs, New Age Nonsense, Quotes, TheologyTags: Liberal Theology, Emergent heresy, false gods, Oswald Chambers, If Thou Wilt Be Perfect, Church of Oprah
“If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of [...]
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Posted: August 11, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
People seem to forget that all Christ’s sufferings on the cross were fore-ordained. They did not come on Him by chance or accident—they were all planned, counseled, and determined from all eternity. The cross was foreseen in all the provisions of the everlasting Trinity for the salvation of sinners. In the purposes of God the [...]
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Posted: August 9, 2010 by Coram Deo in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: False Teaching, judgment, Error, rebuke, hypocrisy, false professors
“They weave the spider’s web.” – Isaiah 59:5 See the spider’s web, and behold in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite’s religion. It is meant to catch his prey: the spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and [...]
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Posted: August 5, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
Where the Holy Ghost is, there will always be the habit of earnest private prayer. . . . He that knows nothing of real, living, fervent private prayer, and is content with some old form, or with no prayer at all, is dead before God. He has not the Spirit of Christ! – J. C. [...]
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Posted: August 4, 2010 by The Desert Pastor in Missions & Martyrs, QuotesTags: Missions, preaching the good news, Salvation Army, the call of the heathen, the gospel call, William Booth
“‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. [...]
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Posted: August 3, 2010 by fourpointer in Occult, Quotes, The OccultTags: John Crowder, Benjamin Dunn, Captain Whacked, Tokin the Ghost, heretics, blasphemers, Oswald Chambers, If Thou Wilt Be Perfect
“There are hidden perils in our life with God whenever we disobey Him. If we are not obeying God physically we experience a craving for drugs, not only physical drugs out of a bottle, but drugs in certain types of meetings and certain types of company—anything that keeps away the realisation that the habits of [...]
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Posted: August 2, 2010 by The Pilgrim in Quotes, Voddie BauchamTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Marriage, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, Voddie Baucham, Parenting, Blogging
I fear that we have lost our way. Christianity has become so marginal in our culture that even those who claim allegiance to Christ have very little to show for it in terms of time and commitment. – Voddie Baucham
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Posted: July 27, 2010 by fourpointer in Encouragement, QuotesTags: "salvation by works", external religion, Holy Spirit, If Thou Wilt Be Perfect, Oswald Chambers, Philippians 2:12, Regeneration
“Paul does not say, [in Philippians 2:12--Ed.] ‘Work out something that will tell for your salvation’; he says, ‘Work out in the expression of your life the salvation God has worked in.’ If we think for a moment we shall soon know how much we are saved—What does our tongue say? what kind of things [...]
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Posted: July 25, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Marriage, Puritan, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Thomas Brooks
Worldly Christians, remember this. You and the world must part, or else assurance [of salvation] and your souls will never meet. – Thomas Brooks 1608 – 1680
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Posted: July 24, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
The stream of professing Christianity is far wider than it formerly was, and I am afraid we must admit, at the same time, it is much less deep. – J. C. Ryle 1816 – 1900
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Posted: July 22, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: false prophets, Christianity, church, Religion, Apostasy, Quotes, heresy, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, False Teachers, Quote, Family Devotions, Gospel, family worship, false prophet, False Teacher, Blogging, Philip Lancaster, Famil Man Family Leader
Christian homes look too much like the world around [them]: the same roles for parents, the same schools, the same entertainment, the same divorce statistics—is it any wonder that our nation is in decline? – Philip Lancaster
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Posted: July 22, 2010 by fourpointer in QuotesTags: Celebrity Worship, Driscollites, hero worship, If Thou Wilt Be Perfect, Oswald Chambers, Perry Noble, Rick Warren
“If a teacher fascinates with his doctrine, his teaching never came from God. The teacher sent from God is the one who clears the way to Jesus and keeps it clear; souls forget altogether about him because the vision of Jesus is the only abiding result. When people are attracted to Jesus Christ through you, [...]
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Posted: July 20, 2010 by unworthy1 in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: Christianity, God, Gospel, Holy Spirit, Jesus
God never clothes men until He has first stripped them, nor does He quicken them by the gospel till first they are slain by the Law. When you meet with persons in whom there is no trace of conviction of sin, you may be quite sure that they have not been wrought upon by the [...]
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Posted: July 19, 2010 by The Pilgrim in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, C. H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon, Christianity, church, God, Hell, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
I would not give a penny for your love of truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error. – C.H. Spurgeon 1834 – 1892
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Posted: July 19, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, baby Baptism, Bible, Blogging, Book, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, infant baptism, J. C. Ryle, Jesus, paedobaptism, Quote, Quotes, Religion, T.E. Watson, Theology
That plain people should be confused and deluded is not surprising when we examine some of the statements made about the efficacy of baby baptism. Take for example the Reformers. Consider the familiar words of the Prayer Book Service for the Public Baptism of Infants: Seeing now, dearly beloved brethren, that this child is regenerate [...]
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Posted: July 16, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
No higher honor can be imagined than that of being Christ’s ambassadors, and proclaiming in Christ’s name the forgiveness of sins to a lost world. But let us ever beware of investing the ministerial office with one jot more of power and authority than Christ conferred upon it. To treat ministers as being in any [...]
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Posted: July 15, 2010 by fourpointer in Apostasy/Lukewarm, New Age Nonsense, Purpose Driven Lie, QuotesTags: Perry Noble, Apostasy, heresy, Discernment, Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Drivel, NewSpring church, Saddleback Church, D.A. Carson, church splits
“The ways of destroying the church are many and colorful. Raw factionalism will do it. Rank heresy will do it. Taking your eyes off the cross and letting other, more peripheral matters dominate the agenda will do it-admittedly more slowly than frank heresy, but just as effectively over the long haul. Building the church with [...]
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Posted: July 10, 2010 by The Pilgrim in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, C. H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon, Christianity, church, God, Hell, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
Oh! had I words that I might this morning attempt to depict to you what eternal death is. The soul has come before its Maker; the book has been opened; the sentence has been uttered; “Depart ye cursed” has shaken the universe, and made the very spheres dim with the frown of the Creator; the [...]
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Posted: July 7, 2010 by unworthy1 in QuotesTags: Apostasy, Christianity, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Walter Martin
[Progressive/liberals] infest our theological seminaries, and our colleges, and fill our pulpits, across the United States and Canada, who not God; do not believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and will stand in the way of anybody that wants to preach it. That is the ultimate danger to [the visible] church; because it is inside [...]
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Posted: July 5, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Charles Leiter, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
There is a deep-seated hatred for God and His law in the heart of every lost man. It is for this reason that “those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ” In the religious man this enmity is often well hidden, but under the right circumstances it will lash out viciously. – Charles [...]
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Posted: July 2, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, christian, Christianity, church, God, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Jeremy Sonnier, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Alleine, Modesty, Puritan, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Theology
If you can’t wear it to church, then you shouldn’t wear it to the beach either. God does not change his standards because sand and/or water is present. -Jeremy Sonnier HT: Sean Payne via Facebook
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Posted: July 2, 2010 by unworthy1 in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, false prophets, False Teachers, Jesus, Jesus Christ, warning
Many things combine to make the present inroad of false doctrine peculiarly dangerous. There is an undeniable zeal in some of the teachers of error: their “earnestness” makes many think they must be right. There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge: many fancy that such clever and intellectual men must surely be [...]
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Posted: July 1, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, christian, Christianity, church, God, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Alleine, Puritan, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Theology
If inanimate creatures could but speak, your food would say, “Lord, must I nourish such a wretch as this, and yield forth my strength for him, to dishonor Thee? No, I will choke him rather, if Thou wilt give commission.” The very air would say, “Lord, must I give this man breath, to set his [...]
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Posted: June 30, 2010 by unworthy1 in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, Quotes, Faith, God, Jesus Christ
True faith is not a mere “mental assent” to certain theological propositions—but a living, burning, active principle—which works by love, purifies the heart, overcomes the world, and brings forth much fruit of holiness and good works. Let us live as if we really believed every jot and tittle of Scripture—and as if a dying, risen, [...]
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Posted: June 30, 2010 by The Pilgrim in Quotes, Roman CatholicismTags: Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
In order to justify their failure to bring their little children to the covenant meal, paedobaptists appeal to the strictures of 1 Corinthians 11:28-29, 31, wherein “a man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the [...]
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Posted: June 29, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Charles Leiter, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
It is possible for a Christian to act at times like a lost man, especially when he is still a “babe in Christ,” but this is a far cry from saying that a true Christian can live his entire life like a lost man. – Charles Leiter
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Posted: June 25, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
Here is a pattern that all ministers ought to follow. Publicly and privately, from the pulpit and in private visits, they ought to rebuke all open sin, and deliver a faithful warning to all who are living in it. It may give offence. It may entail immense unpopularity. With all this they have nothing to [...]
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Posted: June 21, 2010 by fourpointer in Apostasy/Lukewarm, False Christs, Prosperity Pimps, Purpose Driven Lie, QuotesTags: Celebrity Worship, exalting man, If Thou Wilt Be Perfect, Oswald Chambers
“We will deal treacherously with the Bible records if we are not soaked in the revelation that God alone is good. We will put the saints on the throne, not God. There is only one unshakeable goodness, and that is God. It takes time to get there because we will cling to things and to [...]
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Posted: June 20, 2010 by Coram Deo in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: affliction, Encouragement, Faith, forgiveness, Grace, Hope, Jesus Christ, Love, mercy, perseverance of the saints, purification, tribulation
“For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.” – Amos 9:9 Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon [...]
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Posted: June 15, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
Let it be a rule with us, in the reading of our Bibles, to study the types and ordinances of the Mosaic law with prayerful attention. They are all full of Christ. The altar–the scape-goat–the daily burnt-offering–the day of atonement, are all so many sign-posts pointing to the great sacrifice offered by our Lord on [...]
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Posted: June 15, 2010 by The Pilgrim in John MacArthur, QuotesTags: Apologetics, Bible, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
One more factor in the abysmal lack of discernment today is a growing deterioration of the overall level of spiritual maturity in the church. As knowledge of God’s truth ebbs, people follow popular views. They seek feelings and experiences. They hunger for miracles, healings, and spectacular wonders. They grope for easy and instant solutions to [...]
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Posted: June 14, 2010 by fourpointer in Quotes, TheologyTags: Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
For so hath God contrived and constituted things, in his dispensations towards his own people, that when their love decays, and the exercises of it fail, or become weak, fear should arise; for then they need it to restrain them from sin, and to excite them to care for the good of their souls, and [...]
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Posted: June 11, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, Gary Gilley, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Tagged Apologetics, Theology
The temptation arises for a church to change, or at least hide, who they are so that they appeal to unchurched Harry. Additionally, the church is tempted to alter its message to correspond with what Harry wants to hear and thinks he needs. The end result is a felt-need gospel that appeals to Harry’s fallen [...]
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Posted: June 9, 2010 by The Pilgrim in J.C. Ryle, QuotesTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, Blogging
Let us beware of attempting to add anything to the word of God, as necessary to salvation. It provokes God to give us over to judicial blindness. It is as good as saying that His Bible is not perfect, and that we know better than He does what is necessary for man’s salvation. It is [...]
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Posted: June 6, 2010 by The Pilgrim in Parenting, Quotes, Voddie BauchamTags: Christianity, church, Religion, Marriage, Quotes, Faith, Bible, God, Jesus, Theology, Apologetics, Quote, Gospel, Voddie Baucham, Parenting, Blogging
You show me a wife who is not in submission to her husband, and I’ll show you a household in disarray. Can you imagine an army where sergeants openly disrespect generals, yet expect privates to respect them. – Voddie Baucham
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Posted: June 3, 2010 by Coram Deo in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: atonement, Faith, forgiveness, Grace, Hope, Humility, Jesus Christ, Love, mercy, pride, Propitiation, Sin
“He humbled Himself.” – Philippians 2:8 Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of Him. See the Master taking a towel and washing His disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See Him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst not be proud! [...]
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Posted: May 31, 2010 by Coram Deo in C.H. Spurgeon, QuotesTags: Spurgeon!, election, Free Will, Grace, perseverance of the saints, monergism, Regeneration, sin nature, Bondage of the Will, Redeemed Nature, Divine Sovereignty
Man has become so fallen that he cannot keep the law. Sooner might the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots, than he that is accustomed to do evil learn to do well (Jeremiah 13:23); but what man cannot do, by reason of the perversity of the flesh, God performs within him, working [...]
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Posted: May 30, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, Gary Gilley, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Tagged Apologetics, Theology
While we do not affirm that everything modern is evil or that everything ancient was excellent, there is no doubt that the greater part of the boasted “progress” in Christendom of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a progress downward and not upward—away from God and not toward Him, into the darkness and not the [...]
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Posted: May 29, 2010 by The Pilgrim in QuotesTags: A W Pink, Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology
If we are daily concerned in seeking to please God in all the details, great and small, of our lives, He will not leave us in ignorance of His will concerning us. But if we are accustomed to gratify self and only turn up to God for help in times of difficulty and emergency, then [...]
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Posted: May 25, 2010 by The Pilgrim in Quotes, Roman CatholicismTags: Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Catholicism, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
Scripture declares clearly, and without a doubt, that there is only one cleansing agent for the sin of believers. The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7). Yet, Rome diverts its people from the Savior’s blood and instead offers a place called purgatory as a dreadfully contrived hoax. – Mike Gendron
