Sinclair Ferguson, The Christian Life, p. 63 [Faith] is trust in God’s character and obedience to His living voice expressed in His Word. Consequently the object of faith in the Old Testament is the promise of God which awaits its fulfillment in the coming of Christ. Faith looked forward then, just as now it looks [...]
The hope for humanity
The [Christian] message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity – hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory – because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross. J.I. Packer, The New Encyclopedia [...]
Richard D. Phillips, Assured by God, ed. Burk Parsons, P&R, 2006, p. 79.
Faith involves knowledge, assent, and trust. We must know the biblical facts concerning Jesus Christ; we must believe them to be true; and on that belief we must commit ourselves to Jesus in trusting reliance.
Scott Hafemann, The God of Promise and the Life of Faith. Crossway Books, 2001, p. 76.
Faith” is not believing the unbelievable but trusting in God’s word because of what one has come to know of God’s character. And faith always “goes public” in acts of obedience, since a “faith” that does not obey is not a true, justifying faith at all (James 2:21-26).
Richard Baxter The Reformed Pastor, Chapter 3, Part 2.
Though I have a body that had languished under great weaknesses for many years, and my diseases have been such as require as much exercise as almost any in the world, and I have found exercise the principal means of my preservation till now, and, therefore, have as great reason to plead for it as [...]
8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture
8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture
A.W. Tozer
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. [...]
C.S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Our need for an advocate is clear in Job 9:33. God’s provision of Christ is clear in 1 John 2:
Make God’s Word your ‘thing’
christisenough: Don Carson, John Piper, Tim Keller – Make God’s Word Your ‘Thing’ Effective preaching connects to listeners in this world, then draws them into the world of the Bible, and finally brings them back to the present day to live what they’ve learned. Blessings, David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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