Look to the cross and hate your sin, for it nailed your well-beloved to the tree.
Charles Spurgeon (via amartyrschallenge)
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August 22nd, 2012
August 16th, 2012
It is still idolatry to want God for his benefits but not for Himself.
Matt Chandler - The Explicit Gospel (via amartyrschallenge)
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August 9th, 2012
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August 7th, 2012
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Grace-driven effort is violent. It is aggressive. The person who understands the gospel understands that, as a new creation, his spiritual nature is in opposition to sin now, and he seeks not just to weaken sin in his life but to outright destroy it. Out of love for Jesus, he wants sin starved to death, and he will hunt and pursue the death of every sin in his heart until he has achieved success. This is a very different pursuit than simply wanting to be good. It is the result of having transferred one’s affections to Jesus. When God’s love takes hold of us, it powerfully pushes out our own love for other gods and frees our love to flow back to him in true worship. And when we love God, we obey him. The moralist doesn’t operate that way. While true obedience is a result of love, moralistic legalism assumes it works the other way around, that love results from obedience.
Matt Chandler (The Explicit Gospel)
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July 25th, 2012
Can I be totally honest with you? I believe that grace is one of the most misunderstood subjects in the contemporary Church. On the one hand, there are legalists who seem to forget that salvation is by grace through faith and not by works. They turn Christianity into a lifeless religion plagued by futility and marked by always-failing human effort.
On the other hand, there are leaders who seem to forget that salvation by grace includes freedom from sin as well as forgiveness of sin. They turn Christianity into a religion that “saves” but doesn’t transform. Both positions are wrong. Dead wrong.
On the other hand, there are leaders who seem to forget that salvation by grace includes freedom from sin as well as forgiveness of sin. They turn Christianity into a religion that “saves” but doesn’t transform. Both positions are wrong. Dead wrong.
Michael Brown (via nameaboveallnames)
July 22nd, 2012
Many of us believe we have as much of God as we want right now, a reasonable portion of God among all the other things in our lives. Most of our thoughts are centered on the money we want to make, the school we want to attend, the body we aspire to have, the spouse we want to marry, the kind of person we want to become…. But the fact is that nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God; it’s about eternity, and nothing compares with that. God is not someone who can be tacked on to our lives.
Francis Chan, Crazy Love (via an-ge-lo)
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July 5th, 2012
You are happiest when you are fully satisfied in God. His Glory and your Joy are not competing; they are inextricably combined. His greatest glory is when you enjoy Him and your greatest joy is when you give Him glory.
John Piper (via iridescentmystery)
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July 3rd, 2012
Joshua 1:9 (Taken with Instagram)
My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.
Matt Chandler, The Explicit Gospel (via radquotes)
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July 2nd, 2012
July 1st, 2012
But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God’s sight than to be lovely in man’s sight and lame in God’s.
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (via bradfordnick)
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God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts His people in situations where they come face to face with their need for Him. In the process He powerfully demonstrates His ability to provide everything His people need, in ways they could have never mustered up or imagined. And in the end, He makes much of His own name.
David Platt, Radical (via blakebaggott)
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June 30th, 2012
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts His people in situations where they come face to face with their need for Him. In the process He powerfully demonstrates His ability to provide everything His people need, in ways they could have never mustered up or imagined. And in the end, He makes much of His own name.
David Platt, Radical (via amartyrschallenge)
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June 27th, 2012
Let’s pray that God would empower us so radically that we would get no glory. That people would see our works and glorify God.
Francis Chan, Forgotten God (via martelthechristianrapper)
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