Francois Koch

Beyond Excellence Pursuing Perfection

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD July 29, 1921:
Death of Herman Bavinck, Dutch Reformed theologian and churchman. A leading scholar in the Calvinist tradition alongside Abraham Kuyper and B. B. Warfield, he is best known for his monumental four-volume work Reformed Dogmatics (1895–1901). His careful, comprehensive theology continues to influence Reformed thought today.

[Crossway @crossway]

Genesis 1:1 (ESV)

When was a time that God's creation blew you away?

#ESV #Bible #VerseoftheDay #Genesis

[Jerry Bridges @bridgeswisdom]

We must always keep in mind that our status of favor and friendship with God is always, and ever will be, based on the objective work of Christ for us as our representative and substitute. We have been forever reconciled to God through the death of His Son.

[John Owen @JohnOwenDD]

This is that which gives spiritual beauty and order unto the duty of prayer,—namely, the suiting of wants and supplies, of a thankful disposition and praises, of love and admiration, unto the excellencies of God in Christ, all by the wisdom of the Holy Ghost.

[Jerry Bridges @bridgeswisdom]

It's by the power of the Holy Spirit that we experience the joy of salvation and are enabled to rejoice even in the midst of trials.

[Crossway @crossway]

Galatians 5:22–23 (ESV)

Where do you find the power to live out this verse?

#ESV #Bible #VerseoftheDay #Galatians

[Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones | MLJ Trust @TheMLJTrust]

"It isn't a mere rank. It isn't a mere position. It isn't merely that we've been adopted. No, no. The Father now loves us as he loved the Son himself. Staggering, stupendous." - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

A remastered "In the Beloved" has been uploaded: https://t.co/Ogk4lUcyRq

[Jerry Bridges @bridgeswisdom]

Total reconciliation demands a total effort by the offending party to make amends. When Jesus satisfied God's justice and propitiated God's wrath, He did all that was required to remove the enmity of God toward us.

[The Master's Seminary @MastersSeminary]

“Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.” —John MacArthur

[Jerry Bridges @bridgeswisdom]

Our love for God, expressed through obedience to Him, is to be a response to His love, not a means of trying to earn it. "We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19).

[Crossway @crossway]

Acts 1:8 (ESV)

How has God called you to be his witness?

#ESV #Bible #VerseoftheDay #Acts

[Jonathan Edwards @Jnthn_Edwards]

God's love is primarily to Himself, and His infinite delight is in Himself, in the Father and the Son loving and delighting in each other.

[John Newton @JohnNewtonProj]

The saints on earth, though exposed to many sufferings, and assaulted by many enemies, are as safe as the saints in glory.

[Jerry Bridges @bridgeswisdom]

God’s provision for us consists in delivering us from the reign of sin, uniting us with Christ, and giving us the indwelling Holy Spirit to reveal sin, to create a desire for holiness, and to strengthen us in our pursuit of holiness.

[Crossway @crossway]

Isaiah 41:10 (ESV)

Who is greater than every fear?

#ESV #Bible #VerseoftheDay #BookofIsaiah

[John Newton @JohnNewtonProj]

Confusion and darkness will not follow us into the world where light and order reign. Then, and not till then, our knowledge will be perfect, and our possession of it uninterrupted and secure.