The Importance of Learning for the Christian

Convince them how impossible it is to go the way to heaven without knowing it, when there are so many difficulties and enemies in the way; and when men cannot do their worldly business without knowledge, nor learn a trade without an apprenticeship. Convince them what a contradiction it is to be a Christian, and yet to refuse to learn; for what is a Christian but a disciple of Christ? And how can he be a ...

Deeper than the Stain Has Gone! | Lord’s Day Quotes

For this Lord's day, along with today's Lord's Day Hymn, let me share to you some choice quotes shared to me by some of my friends in facebook. I have nothing to add to what is said, but I beseech you to take heed to these timely exhortations. We must in a solemn manner devote ourselves to God on this day; we must spend the whole day with God. Some will hear the word—but leave ...

I Am Ashamed of My Stupidity!

Were there but such clear and deep impressions upon our own souls of those glorious things which we daily preach, oh what a change would it make in our sermons, and in our private course of life! Oh what a miserable thing it is to the Church and to themselves, that men must preach of heaven and hell, before they soundly believe that there are such things, or have felt the weight of the doctrines which ...

Theology Must lay the Foundation—in Everything.

And, therefore, I shall presume to tell you, by the way, that it is a grand error, and of dangerous consequence in Christian academies, (pardon the censure from one so unfit to pass it, seeing the necessity of the case commandeth it,) that they study the creature before the Redeemer, and set themselves to physics, and metaphysics, and mathematics, before they set themselves to theology; whereas, no man that hath not the vitals of theology, ...

God Never Saved any Man for being a Preacher.

I mentioned a week ago that I've been going through Richard Baxter's book The Reformed Pastor. I've so far learned much from my reading, in so much that I want to share some of them with you. I am persuaded that Richard Baxter's words in his book (or to me so far it seems like a rather elongated sermon) would find homage to the hearts of every Christian, as we are called to be, in a ...

Is This All Thy Compassion for Lost Sinners?

Lately, I've been struggling to finish a couple of books. Tim Challies' The Guide to Spiritual Discernment, Richard Sibbes' The Bruised Reed and John Owen's Mortification of Sin. A series of circumstances led me to put down those three books for a while and take up a new one, Richard Baxter's The Reformed Pastor. I was determined that before I get serious, and to make sure if God is really calling me for the great responsibility ...

Convince Them How Impossible it is to Go to Heaven.

Convince them how impossible it is to go the way to heaven without knowing it, when there are so many difficulties and enemies in the way; and when men cannot do their worldly business without knowledge, nor learn a trade without an apprenticeship. Convince them what a contradiction it is to be a Christian, and yet to refuse to learn; for what is a Christian but a disciple of Christ? And how can he be ...