“No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honor, unless we are melted and refined in the furnace of affliction.”
Thomas Watson
Month: August 2016
Exercise
“We are cold when it comes to rejoicing in God! Hence, we need to exercise ourselves in it and employ all our senses in it – our feet, our hands, our arms and all the rest – that they all might serve in the worship of God and so magnify Him.”
John Calvin
Forgive Us
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Matthew 6:9-13 (ESV) Continue reading
Our Daily Bread
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Matthew 6:9-13 (ESV) Continue reading
A Good Christian
“A good Christian is not a grave to bury God’s mercies, but a temple to sing his praises.”
Thomas Watson
Bearers
“There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.”
Charles Spurgeon
Beware
“Beware of those who say there is no hell and declare new ways to heaven.”
Charles Spurgeon
Affections
“And the duty of singing praises to God seems to be appointed wholly to excite and express religious affections. No other reason can be assigned why we should express ourselves to God in verse rather than in prose, and do it with music, but only that such is our nature and frame that these things have a tendency to move our affections.”
Jonathan Edwards