Charles Spurgeon on Death

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy." 
  
~C.H. Spurgeon~



Stephen Charnock on the Heart

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite."

~Stephen Charnock~ 

R. J. Rushdoony on The Oath

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: | Posted On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 8:39 AM

"An oath of office places a man and the people he governs in covenant with God.  It binds the man and the people.  It is an act of the most serious nature and consequences.  Before it is too late, we had better take it as seriously as God does!"

~R. J. Rushdoony~


Jonathan Edwards on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 8:00 AM


"Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire."
Jonathan Edwards


George Swinnock on Regeneration

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 26, 2011 at 9:00 AM


“There may be several things which may help to make the life fair in the eyes of men; but nothing will make it amiable in the eyes of God, unless the heart be changed and renewed. All the medicines which can be applied, without the sanctifying work of the Spirit, though they may cover, they can never cure the corruption and diseases of the soul.”
George Swinnock


John Flavel on Riches

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 23, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness."
John Flavel


Stephen Charnock on Regeneration

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons."
Stephen Charnock


Richard Sibbes on Providence

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation."
Richard Sibbes


Richard Baxter on Perfection

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it."
Richard Baxter


William Secker on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 19, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"It is our bounden duty to live in obedience, but it would prove our utter ruin to live on obedience."
William Secker

Thomas Watson on Temptation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"The devil tempts, that he may deceive; but God suffers us to be tempted, to try us.  Temptation is a trial of our sincerity."
Thomas Watson


Abraham Wright on Temptation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 8:00 AM


"The cause why our oppressors prevail oft against us is, because we trust too much in our own wits, and lean too much upon our own inventions; opposing subtility to subtility, one evil device to another, matching and maintaining policy by policv, and not committing our cause to God."
Abraham Wright
(1611-1690)

Samuel Rutherford on Temptation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"To want temptations is the greatest temptation of all."
Samuel Rutherford



John Owen on Temptation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before."
John Owen 


Vavasor Powell on Temptation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:30 AM

"If thou hast fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it."
Vavasor Powell
(1617-1670)

Thomas Adams on Temptation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On at 8:00 AM

"Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish."
Thomas Adams


R. J. Rushdoony on Hypocrites

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"We have as many hypocrites in government as we do because so many of us voters are hypocrites.  We are all for reforming everyone except ourselves."
~R. J. Rushdoony~


R. J. Rushdoony on Economy

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"To understand therefore what is happening in America's economy, the answer is not to complain about the rising price of farm products but to look at the changing yardstick, money."
~R. J. Rushdoony~


R. J. Rushdoony on Faith

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"When the faith is more than a possession but a fire in our being that possesses us, we are governed by it.  It commands and compels us as nothing else can, because we are in the hands and power of the living God."
~R. J. Rushdoony~


R. J. Rushdoony on Lack of Faith

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"When a civilisation looses its faith, it begins to live, not in terms of responsibilities, and the future, but in terms of the present pleasure." 
~R. J. Rushdoony~


R.J. Rushdoony on Politics and Character

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, December 5, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"Politics cannot produce character: Christianity must. The decline of faith is a decline of character and a decline of character is the forerunner of political decay and collapse. Christianity has an obligation to train a people in the fundamentals of God's grace and law, and to make them active and able champions of true political liberty and order."

R. J. Rushdoony


Charles Spurgeon on Repentance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 2, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"Evangelical repentance is repentance of sin as sin: not of this sin nor of that, but of the whole mass. We repent of the sin of our nature as well as the sin of our practice. We bemoan sin within us and without us. We repent of sin itself as being an insult to God. Anything short of this is a mere surface repentance, and not a repentance which reaches to the bottom of the mischief. Repentance of the evil act, and not of the evil heart, is like men pumping water out of a leaky vessel, but forgetting to stop the leak. Some would dam up the stream, but leave the fountain still flowing; they would remove the eruption from the skin, but leave the disease in the flesh."
C. H. Spurgeon


Thomas Watson on Repentacne

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"God will not pardom for repentance, nor yet without it."
Thomas Watson