Pure Church

"Our best duties are so many splendid sins." --George Whitefield Read the excellent quotation on " the archaeology of repenta...

Jim Elliot: I see clearly now that anything, whatever it is, if it be not on the principle of grace, it is not of God. Here shall be my ple...

HT: Desiring God . "To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. It was incommens...

"The history of salvation is not a small event, on a poor planet, in the immensity of the universe. It is not a minimal thing which hap...

"The more I study the New Testament and live the Christian life, the more convinced I am that our fundamental difficulty, our fundament...

I'm being challenged right now reading Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot . I've just started the book, b...

Today I begin sermon preparation for Gen. 28:10-29:30. What a joy it is to look long into God's word with the privilege of then sharing ...

Oliver Wendell Homes: "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."

Sometimes answering the basic questions helps us see larger issues more clearly. Take for example the issue of church membership. There'...

"Time spent nourishing a broken heart is time lost for eternity." --John MacArthur, " Triumphantly Encouraged: The Privilige ...

HT: Between Two Worlds From Paul Tripp’s chapter, “War of Words,” in The Power of Words and the Wonder of God , pp. 43-44 (Justin's emph...

From Ajith Fernando's The Call to Joy and Pain: Embracing Suffering in Your Ministry . He's meditating on Colossians 1:28--"Him...

From Ray Ortlund, Jr. : Deuteronomy 6:5 makes intense love the greatest commandment: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your he...

There’s a holy, high vocation Needing workers everywhere; ’Tis the highest form of service, ’Tis the ministry of prayer. No one need stand i...

Challies shared this powerful martyrdom scene from his reading of a new biography on Calvin. It's worth pondering widely and deeply: I ...

I don't quote Barth very much (okay... I don't think I've ever quoted Barth), but this was an interesting statement on baptism: ...

"It is quite common for people to say they are looking for a church they are comfortable with. I think that is a scandalous statement....

“The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.” That will preach! From Matt Redman (HT: Worship Matters )

Sometimes the things that impact us most are things we hear in passing. It happens with conversations and sermons all the time. Someone says...

Iain Murray paraphrasing Lloyd-Jones in his biography of Lloyd-Jones (vol. 1): "The church's worst enemy is the man of little fait...