Thanks to Pastor Capranica and Summit Woods Baptist Church for having the team this Sunday. Excited to start this year with this group of men!
#Faithful#SoliDeoGloria
@SpurgeonMBB@SummitWoodsBC It was my joy and honor to meet all of you today and worship alongside you. Have a great season as you bring glory to Christ as a team! I’m praying for you to that end.
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your afflictions could do. Your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; you make your burden heavy by struggling under it.
A sense of God's presence in love is sufficient to rebuke all anxiety and fears in the worst and most dreadful condition; and not only so, but to give in the midst of them solid consolation and Joy. ~John Owen
Cultivate a habit of communion with God. This will prepare you for whatever may take place. This will so sweeten your temper and calm your mind as to secure you against surprisals.
The sense I had of divine things, would often of a sudden as it were kindle up a sweet burning in my heart; an ardor of my soul, that I know not how to express.
If you compare Christ and other things, no matter how lovely, no matter how excellent and desirable, Christ carries away all loveliness from them. #incomparable#beauty
The first foundation of the delight a true saint has in Christ is His own perfection; and the first foundation of the delight he has in Christ, is His own beauty; He appears in Himself the chief among 10,000 and altogether lovely.
Christ is represented in Rev5:6 as standing before God, as a lamb that had been slain; as it were exhibiting and revealing in heaven those deadly wounds received on earth from the justice of God, on our account. Other advocates spend their breath, Christ spends his blood.
1 Peter 5:6-7: Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
There are [sermon] hearers who make themselves, and not the Scripture the standard of their judgment. They attend not so much to be instructed, as to pass their sentence.