Sam Oldridge

Follower of Jesus. Member of God's Family by Grace.

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

@ImJonnyRaine Jesus, your blood and righteous (Zinzendorf)

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

@_HywelGeorge Conclusions?

[London Seminary @LondonSeminary]

Yesterday Philip Eveson retired from the London Seminary board. He first came to the college in 1973, taught at the Seminary since its foundation in 1977, was Principal and then a board member. We give thanks for his 50 year involvement.
@PHEveson

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

‘There is nothing that speaks a man to be more empty and void of God, Christ, and grace, than self-seeking’ Brooks

[Thomas Watson @ThosWatson]

*My sheep*, there is election; *hear my voice*, there is vocation; *and I know them*, there is justification; *and they follow me*, there is sanctification; *and I give unto them eternal life*, there is glorification.

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

Lloyd-Jones on the Bible - ‘ why should we be afraid of the scientist? He has no facts which interfere with this Book, we must not accommodate them; we must not try to placate people and please them. That is not the way to handle this Book.’

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

‘A man may have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him’
- Thomas Brooks

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‘The man who is concerned most of all about his public appearance before men, is never much concerned about his private attitude before God’ (Lloyd-Jones)

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

‘To render good for evil is divine, to render good for good is human, to render evil for evil is brutish; but to render evil for good is devilish; and from this evil deliver my soul, O God.’ Thomas Brooks

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

On this day, in 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake for translating the Scriptures into English for the common man.

His final words, “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.”

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

We entertain dark thoughts of the ways of God, as if religion were a sour thing. Oh, taste and see! You will find enough in Christ to spoil the relish of all other pleasures.
Thomas Manton

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

‘Repentance is a flower that grows not in nature’s garden.’ Thomas Brooks

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Lloyd-Jones on the objective of evangelistic work. The sentence finishes: ‘those souls into a state of reconciliation with God.’

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

‘God, give me a deep humility, a
well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!’ - George Whitefield

[Kevin DeYoung @RevKevDeYoung]

Lesson from the church in Ephesus: contending for the faith is necessary, discerning truth from error is good, holiness is worth fighting for, and woe to us if we lose love.

[Albert Mohler @albertmohler]

Breaking: Here is my commentary on the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II today — the meaning of Britain’s second Elizabethan Age. https://t.co/xvLMX33R41

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

No book like it.

HT: Schuyler Bibles

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

Matthew Henry on Jonah 4: ‘What should especially silence discontent, is, that when our gourd is gone, our God is not gone.’

[Sam Oldridge @sjoldridge]

And he said, "O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage." And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me." https://t.co/Ygzm5ASB5O

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Stuart Olyott on Romans 6 - 7