Six vital certainties:
1. Life is short and uncertain.
2. Death is sure.
3. Judgment is inevitable.
4. Sin is exceeding sinful.
5. Hell is a dreadful reality.
6. Christ alone can save you.
J.C. Ryle
This is the true nature of preaching. It is the man of God opening the Word of God and expounding its truths so that the voice of God may be heard, the glory of God seen, and the will of God obeyed.
—@DrStevenJLawson
Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. https://t.co/klwTq71rqY
“Jesus fixed his gaze on the completion of his joy. That gaze sustained the greatest act of love that ever was. The same gaze — the completion of our joy in God — will sustain us as well. The pursuit of that joy doesn’t contradict suffering — it carries it.”
—@JohnPiper
To every wounded and weary soul, to every tired and broken heart, to every worried and restless mind, Jesus says, “Come to me, and I will give you rest.”
May you say to yourself today, “Not everything is perfect in my life, there are struggles to face and battles to be won, but every day God’s amazing love is poured down on me and I will not just survive, I will thrive.”
New: “The Reality of Sexual Abuse Hits Home: What Happened? What Do We Do Now?” My essay on the sex abuse crisis and the Southern Baptist Convention.
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