Come as you are [repost]

From Spurgeon’s book: All of Grace Do not attempt to touch yourself up and make yourself something other than you really are, but come as you are to Him who justifies the ungodly. …The Gospel will receive you into its halls if you come as a sinner, not otherwise. Wait not for reformation, but come at [...]

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Dev Menon – 2 Timothy 2

Wonderful sermon by Dev. At the end he quotes from Spurgeon’s sermon “Eternal Faithfulness Unaffected by Human Unbelief.“ I tell you again that He cannot reject you—that would be to alter His whole Character and “un-Christ” Himself! To spurn a coming sinner would un-Jesus Him and make Him to be somebody else, and not Himself [...]

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Spurgeon on Christless preaching

Spurgeon quotes from Tony Reinke here “The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have [...]

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Why should I let you into my heaven?

From Doug Wilson: I was talking to a woman one time… and she told me sheepishly about her first reaction to that great grace question hypothetically presented at the pearly gates — “why should I let you into heaven?” The right answer of course is a variant of “because of the blood of Jesus Christ, [...]

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Come as you are

From Spurgeon’s book: All of Grace Do not attempt to touch yourself up and make yourself something other than you really are, but come as you are to Him who justifies the ungodly. …The Gospel will receive you into its halls if you come as a sinner, not otherwise. Wait not for reformation, but come [...]

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Five Smooth Stones – Election

Israel did not elect David.  Not even his nearest and dearest wanted David as king. In 1 Samuel 16 we see the choosing of this king.  Yet it is not man’s choice but God’s.  The LORD said… “I have chosen one of [Jesse's] sons to be king…” Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed [...]

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Looking Unto Jesus

Continuing on the Spurgeon quotes…  Here is today’s devotional from morning and evening and it’s a doozy!  It’s very reminiscent of a recent post on faith as looking outside ourselves to Christ.  But, as ever, Spurgeon says it best.  Drink it in! “Looking unto Jesus.” –Hebrews 12:2 It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to [...]

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Calling

Lest anyone feel left out by my last post on ordination vows, this was today’s reading from Spurgeon’s Evening and Morning - we all have a holy calling!  ”Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.”—1 Corinthians 7:20. Some persons have the foolish notion that the only way in which they can [...]

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Assurance in the Reformed Tradition

Over at White to Harvest there are some very stimulating discussions of election and assurance going on – see here and the comments here.   But just to stick up for the reformed tradition, here are (very selective!) quotations from three of the greats.  Not to say that these are consistently followed by each theologian or their [...]

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