Christians often get greatly hung up on the idea of discovering what God’s specific will is for their lives … The difficulty is that He has not revealed (and does not usually reveal) those specifics to us … But although these details are not made known, general but very important things are, and the most [...]
Jonathan Edwards, Works
The exercise of true religion and virtue in Christians is summarily expressed by their glorifying God.
John Piper, The Pleasures of God
We glorify God when our service comes from faith in His strength, because the one who gives the strength gets the glory.
Matt Chander
The Explicit Gospel, p. 15
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We are saved, sanctified, and sustained by what Jesus did for us on the cross and through the power of his resurrection… My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus [...]
Jonathan Edwards, Works
It is evident, by both Scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, eternally, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy: that He cannot be profited by, or receive any thing from, the creature.
Watson, Gleanings , p136
True faith will trust God where it cannot trace Him.
Thomas Watson
A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
Simeon Duncan – Kingdom Growth
Outline 1. A lesson for listeners (1-9) 2. The problem with parables (10-12) 3. The work of the word (13-20)
Stephen Charnock
Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.
John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.
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