"It is indeed God’s method to make out gracious promises to his people when their condition seems most deplored, to sweeten their souls with a sense of his love, in the multitude of the perplexing thoughts, which in distracted times are ready to tumultuate in them." – John Owen
"Let none then pretend that they love the brethren in general, and love the people of God, and love the saints, while their love is not fervently exercised toward those who are in the same church society with them." –John Owen
Great to have worked with @LeeGatiss and the team @crossway on this project. The five sermons and appended treatises in this volume come from defining moments during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Vol 19 will move into the Commonwealth and Protectorate eras.
John Owen on not being ashamed of the gospel: "If ever we intend to be owned by him [Christ] at the last day, we should own his gospel in the profession of it."
Martin Luther's abbreviation of the creed:
“I believe in God the Father, who created me; I believe in God the Son, who has redeemed me; I believe in the Holy Spirit, who makes me holy.”
The CCT Annual Lecture is next month! Don't miss @MichaelHorton_ 's lecture, "If Reformed, then catholic: Revisiting Sola Scriptura" on Nov 19, in San Diego.
Register today: https://t.co/xPqjOzbOGP
"The Lord’s Supper is a gift where Christ himself presents himself to us, and he wants us to think about who he is and who he is to us."
—Kevin P. Emmert
"Are You Dissatisfied with Life? Take Communion":
https://t.co/lchDJMoq7r
ANNOUNCEMENT: Samuel Parkison to serve as the Director of Publishing at Credo and Editor of a new Crossway series. @samuel_parkison@crossway
https://t.co/VzyjFsrmZZ
"To remember biblically—to commemorate, that is—is to actually take something of the past and bring it into the present."
—Kevin P. Emmert
"What Does It Mean to Take the Lord’s Supper in 'Remembrance' of Christ?":
https://t.co/di3WUoFz3v
A new book emphasizing the importance of baptism and the Lord's Supper to the Christian life, reviewed by Ryan McGraw!
@crossway
https://t.co/5caGf0dt9x
2/2 "He has made many an admirable change with us. He took our sin, and gives us his righteousness; he took our nature, and gives us his Spirit. Neither is it a bare indwelling neither: he thereby holds with us all acts of the choicest communion." – John Owen
1/2 "The intimacy of the Lord Jesus with his saint[s], and the delight he takes in them: he dwells *with* them: he dwells *in* them. He takes them to the nearest union with himself possible. He in them, they in him, that they may be one. . . ."
"The sacraments reinforce the truth that we belong to a collective, to Christ and his body."
—Kevin P. Emmert
"The Sacraments Give Us a Collective Identity":
https://t.co/B6B58MqnFg