the simple inexhaustible gospel

"The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches."
-Charles Hodge

looking for the perfect church?

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
-Charles H. Spurgeon

good news if you're sick (or poor)...

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

—Richard Sibbes

today is a gift

"So here it is, another day. I did nothing to deserve it. I just woke up this morning, and there it was. I may have expected it to be there, but I had no right to. Just like Christmas morning, I got up to find a present waiting for me, a brand new day.Yes, today is a gift. And it has my name on the tag. This present from God has been custom-made for me. God has filled it with blessings, some obvious and some in disguise. Its difficulties and challenges are tailored to fit my size. It may not be exactly what I asked for, but it is exactly what I need."

-Russell Board, World Magazine, November 18, 2006

today is the first day of the rest of your life

" I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, that I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age."

-Jonathan Edwards July 8, 1723.

How To Glorify God

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him"

-John Piper

"God, ...what are you up to?"

"God is to be trusted when his providences seem to run contrary to his promises. God promised to give David the crown, to make him king; but providence ran contrary to his promise. David was pursued by Saul, and was in danger of his life, but all this while it was David’s duty to trust God. Pray observe, that the Lord by cross providences often brings to pass his promise. God promised Paul the lives of all that were with him in the ship; but the providence of God seemed to run quite contrary to his promise, for the winds blew, the ship split and broke in pieces. Thus God fulfilled his promise; upon the broken pieces of the ship they all came safe to shore. Trust God when providences seem to run quite contrary to promises."

-Thomas Watson, “The Providence of God” from A Body of Divinity

Christ cures broken hearts for free

It is not the healthy who need a doctor--but the sick. Luke 5:31

"Christ is the most cheap physician, he takes no fee. He desires us to bring nothing to him but broken hearts; and when he has cured us he desires us to bestow nothing on him but our love."

-Thomas Watson, from a sermon called "The Soul's Malady and Cure"

Praise God For True Gospel Preaching

"Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus."

-C. H. Spurgeon, from a sermon called The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit, April 16th, 1885

Puritan Richard Sibbes on God's Love and Our Feelings

"Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof."

-Richard Sibbes