Archive | April 2010
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Questions To Ponder On the Journey
Are you poor? Seek treasure in heaven and be rich. Are you old? Be ready for your end, and prepare to meet your God. Are you young? Begin well, and seek in Christ a never-failing friend, who will never forsake you. Are you in trouble, anxious about this life? Seek Him who alone can help [...]
The Downward Spiral Into Hell
No Holy Spirit in you—no part in Christ! No part in Christ—no forgiveness of sins! No forgiveness of sins—no peace with God! No peace with God—no title to heaven! No title to heaven—no admission into heaven! No admission into heaven—and what then? Yes—what then? You may well ask. Where will you flee? Which way will [...]
The Humble New Believer
To see a calm-minded young believer, who is not stuck up, self confident and self-conceited, but content with a daily steady effort to grow up into Christ’s likeness, and to do Christ’s work quietly and simply, at home, is really becoming almost a rarity! ~ J.C. Ryle Practical Religion, “Self-Inquiry”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, [...]
Look Away From Self and Towards Christ
Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked; you cannot make atonement for your past transgressions, you cannot wipe out a single page in that long black list. And when the King shall ask you for your wedding garment you will be speechless. Look simply unto Jesus, and then [...]
Assurance in the Hour of Death
The strong consolation which assurance can give in the hour of death is a point of great importance. We may depend on it, we shall never think assurance so precious as when our turn comes to die. In that awful hour there are few believers who do not find out the value and privilege of [...]
The Glorious Character of Christ
Always the same! unchanging! – that is a glorious character; a character which belongs to nothing that is of the earth; a character which He [Christ] alone deserves, who is the Lord from heaven. ~ J.C. Ryle The Christian Race & Other Sermons, “The Unchanging Christ”, [Moscow, ID: Charles Nolan Publishing, 2002], 146.
Total Dependance on God’s Words
There must be a real heartfelt belief that God’s promises are sure and to be depended on – a real belief that what God says in the Bible is all true and that every doctrine contrary to this is false, whatever anyone may say. There must be a real belief that all God’s words are [...]
The Great Secret of Loving Christ
What, after all, is the great secret of loving Christ? It is an inward sense of having received from Him pardon and forgiveness of sins. Those love much who feel much forgiven. He who has come to Christ with his sins, and tasted the blessedness of free and full absolution, he is the man whose [...]
The Fruits of a True Conversion
Does anyone ask me what we may expect to see in a true conversion? I reply: There will always be something seen in a converted man’s character, feelings, conduct, opinions and daily life. You will not see in him perfection; but you will see in him something peculiar, distinct, and different from other people. You [...]
The Power of Scripture at Conversion
The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Spirit is the grand instrument by which souls are first converted to God. That mighty change is generally begun by some text or doctrine of the Word, brought home to a man’s conscience. In this way the Bible has worked moral miracles by the thousands. It [...]
