Thoughts of the Day

Arguments for the existence of God are very restricted; some of them are more restricted and limited than others. They do not prove beyond all question the existence of the God of the Bible. Furthermore, it must be remembered that man’s mind, his thinking process, has been affected by his fall into sin.
This means [...]

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Thoughts of the Day: Keller, Ireneaus of Lyons

 “If the truth of being justified by Christ alone (not by our works) is lost, then all Christian truths are lost. For there is no middle ground between Christian righteousness and works-righteousness. There is no alternative to Christian righteousness but works-righteousness; if you do not build your confidence on the work of Christ, you must [...]

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Thought of the Day: A Full Pantry

 
This quote from Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) is taken from The Loveliness of Christ:
 
“There is as much in our Lord’s pantry as will satisfy all his [children], and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on; for there is meat in hunger for Christ: go never from him, but [trouble] [...]

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Thought of the Day: Sermon on the Mount

 

“[T]he Sermon on the Mount is a description of character and not a code of ethics or of morals. It is not to be regarded as a law- a kind of new ‘Ten Commandments’ or set of rules and regulations which are to be carried out by us-but rather as a description of what we [...]

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Thought of the Day: No Adopted Children

 
In Scripture there is no such thing as an adopted child.  Adopted is a past tense verb, it is not an adjective.  Those who have been brought into the household and family of God are really and truly part of the household of God sharing with their brothers and sisters everything that it means to [...]

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Thoughts of the Day: The Mad World

 
 The Mad World
The world is absurd. Ugly absurd.
To repair ugly absurdity, you can’t just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity.
We call it, “holy madness”. — Tzvi Freeman
 
 
If… you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane–if, in [...]

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Thought of the Day: All good work is God’s work

 
He that hath seen Christ has seen the Father, and Christ not only died, but conquered death and rose again. God the Father is suffering, striving, crucified, but unconquerable.
 
We see His triumph now in Nature’s glory, and we hear Him calling to us to join Him in the task of conquering the evils which arise [...]

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Thought of the Day: Apostles of Satan in the Pulpit

 
The apostles of Satan are not saloon-keepers and white-slave traffickers, but are for the most part ordained ministers. Thousands of those who occupy our modern pulpits are no longer engaged in presenting the fundamentals of the Christian Faith, but have turned aside from the Truth and have given heed unto fables. Instead of magnifying the [...]

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Thoughts of the Day: Christian fortune cookies

“God is always like Himself.”
- John Calvin

“It is impossible to reason someone out of something that he did not reason himself into in the first place.”
- Jonathan Swift

“God never gives us discernment in order that we may be critical, but that we may intercede.”
- Oswald Chambers

“Remove natural man from his rituals and he must begin [...]

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Thoughts of the Day: Quotes of St. Patrick

Quotes of Saint Patrick
“What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, [he] who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.”
Christ beside me, Christ before [...]

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