Every Moment in the Presence of God Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator. (J.I. Packer, Knowing God)
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The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will. So the path forward is not to decrease one’s affections but rather to enlarge them and fill them with “heavenly things.” (John Owen) Is your mind engaged in passionate love for God? Have you…
I am currently working through a series on the book of Mark and came across this gem of a quote on unbelief. Jesus travelled back to his hometown, Nazareth, with his disciples, and he carried out his typical practice of speaking in the synagogues. The people were surprised at his teaching, but then ultimately acted in disbelief of him. Mark 6:4-6 then…
“We are great fools when we think that we can find pleasure in sin, or profit in rebellion. We are great fools when we displease our God,—when our best Friend, on whom our eternal future depends, is despised, neglected, and even rejected and hated by us. It is the extreme of folly when a man loses the good will of one…
“Indeed, God knows every detail of our lives, and when we step out in faith to follow him, he will show us that our greatest security is not found in the comforts we can manufacture in this world but in the faithful provision of the only one who knows our needs and the only one who is able to meet our needs…