“God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.”
Jonathan Edwards
Show Me
“Show me where you spend your time, money and energy and I’ll tell you what you worship.”
John Wimber
Our Passover
“As therefore our true passover, which is the Lord Jesus, hath been sacrificed for us, let us daily celebrate the memory of it in a manner worthy of so great a grace.”
Stephen Charnock
Stage Play
“Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.”
Stephen Charnock
Natural
“We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.”
J.I. Packer
Gained a Heaven
“We lost a paradise by sin, and have gained a heaven by the cross.”
Stephen Charnock
Bubbles Up
“We should see no charms in sin that may not be overcome by that ravishing love which bubbles up in every drop of the Redeemer’s blood.”
Stephen Charnock
Watch Your Mouth
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29 (ESV) Continue reading