Inflexible in Nothing but the Cause of Christ
A truly humble man is inflexible in nothing but in the cause of his Lord and Master, which is the cause of truth and virtue. In this he is inflexible, because God and conscience require it. But in things of lesser moment, and which do not involve his principles as a follower of Christ, and in things that only concern his own private interests, he is apt to yield to others. There are various imitations of (humility) that fall short of this reality. Some put on an affected humility. Others have a natural low-spiritedness, and are wanting in manliness of character. …In others, there is a...
read moreAuthority – Tim Keller
An excerpt from Tim Keller’s latest article from Redeemer: Many years ago as a young Christian my attention was arrested by an article on ‘Authority’ by John Stott. Stott asked, “Why should people believe that the Bible is God’s Word written, inspired by his Spirit and authoritative over their lives?” This was a big question for me. I had decided that I believed in Jesus Christ, but I struggled with the idea that I had to believe everything in the Bible. Stott answered that we do not believe it simply because we want to be dogmatic and certain about our own beliefs, nor...
read moreIntensity of the Flesh driven by a Mentality of Law
“Even when we are pursuing gospel aspirations, we can do so with the psychology of law. It shows. It makes us unhappy in ourselves and a royal pain to live with. Let’s remember there are two kinds of spiritual intensity—that of the Spirit and that of the flesh. The zeal or intensity of the flesh is driven by the law, the zeal of the Spirit gets lift-off from the gospel of grace. When we find ourselves driven, angry, prickly, tense, trigger-happy, etc., that is the intensity of the flesh driven by a mentality of law, and that’s when it is time to humble ourselves, laugh at...
read moreSpurgeon on False Teachers
“I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, ‘He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.’ Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration. I cannot endure false doctrine, however neatly it may be put before me. Would you have me eat poisoned meat because the dish is of the choicest ware? It makes me indignant when I hear another gospel put before the people with enticing...
read moreBreaking Our Addiction To Success
“How can we break our heart’s fixation on doing ’some great thing’ in order to heal ourselves of our sense of inadequacy, in order to give our lives meaning? Only when we see what Jesus, our great Suffering Servant, has done for us will we finally understand why God’s salvation does not require us to do ’some great thing.’ We don’t have to do it, because Jesus has. . . . Jesus did it all for us, and he loves us — that is how we know our existence is justified. When we believe in what he accomplished for us with our minds, and when we are moved by what he did for us in...
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