Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Assurance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“ Assurance is not essential to salvation, but it is essential to the joy of salvation.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones


Thomas Fuller on Knowledge and Beliefs

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"He that knows nothing will believe anything."
Thomas Fuller

Richard Sibbes on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM

"Partial obedience is not obedience at all; to single out easy things that do not oppose our lusts, which are not against our reputation, therein some will do more than they need; but our obedience must be universal to all God's commandments, and that because He commands it. Empty relationships are nothing; if we profess ourselves God's servants and do not honour Him by our obedience, we take but an empty title."
Richard Sibbes


R.J. Rushdoony on Envy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, March 28, 2011 at 10:03 AM

“The immoral hate the moral; the ungodly hate the godly; the unproductive hate the productive; and those who want the world to give them a living hate those whose lives make clear that their way is false.”
R.J. Rushdoony

A.W. Pink on God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, March 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM

"The permanence of God's character guarantees the fulfillment of his promises."
A. W. Pink

Charles Spurgeon on the Family

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"The Christian family was the bulwark of godliness in the days of the Puritans; but in these evil times hundreds of families of so-called Christians have no family worship, no restraint upon growing sons, and no wholesome instruction or discipline. See how the families of many professors are as dressy, as gay, as godless as the children of the non-religious! How can we hope to see the kingdom of our Lord advance when his own disciples do not teach his gospel to their own sons and daughters?"
Charles Spurgeon

Thomas Adams on Marriage

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two."
Thomas Adams

John Trapp on False Doctrine

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Heresy is the leporasy of the head."
John Trapp

Ezekiel Hopkins on the Law

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, March 21, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“We find the same rules for our actions, the same duties required, the same sins forbidden in the Gospel as in the law.”
Ezekiel Hopkins

Henry Smith on Justification

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with His obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find us.”
Henry Smith

George Swinnock on Worship

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"All in the church may hear the Word of Christ, but few hear Christ in the Word."
George Swinnock


Thomas Watson on Providence

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“There are three things in providence; God’s foreknowing, God’s determining, and God’s directing all things to their periods and events.
Thomas Watson
 


John Owen on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, March 14, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“For the most part we live upon successes, not promises:- unless we see and feel the print of victories, we will not believe.”

John Owen

Jean Daille on Ministers

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, March 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Ministers are not cooks, but physicians and therefore should not study to delight the palate, but to recover the patient."
Jean Daille
 (1594–1670)

William Secker on The Law

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM

The Law by which God rules us, is as dear to Him as the Gospel by which He saves us."
William Secker

J.C. Ryle on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 8:09 AM

"Let us, then, have it fixed down in our minds that the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within. It is not the result of bad training in early years. It is not picked up from bad companions and bad examples, as some weak Christians are too fond of saying. No! It is a family disease, which we all inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, and with which we are born."
J.C. Ryle

Philip Goodwin on Children in Church

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“We should bring our children with us to the publick teaching, so may our private teaching prove profitable. Oftentimes divine truths are as nails, one teaching sets them in, and the other teaching fastens them; one plants and the other waters, and so of both God gives increase."

Phillip Goodwin
(From: "Family Religion Revived, or a Treatise as to discover the good old way of serving God in private Houses; so to Recover the Pious Practice of those Precious, Duties unto their Primitive platform.")

Thomas Goodwin on Election

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, March 7, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Moreover, as God respects no person, so He respects no condition upon which He gives salvation to us."
Thomas Goodwin

Thomas Adams on the Law

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, March 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"The Law, though it have no power to condemn us, hath power to command us."
Thomas Adams

Daniel Cawdrey on Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it; even so good works are not the cause of our salvation, but a sign and a fruit of the same.”

Daniel Cawdrey
(1588–1664)

Richard Sibbes on Spiritual Fullness

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness."
Richard Sibbes

Matthew Henry on Marriage

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved."
Matthew Henry