Thomas Goodwin on Repentance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"There cannot be a true sorrow of heart for a sin that is past, but presently there doth arise a purpose not to sin for the future."
Thomas Goodwin


Thomas Brooks on Stewardship of God's Provisions

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 8:00 AM

"Oh, then be ashamed, Christians, that worldlings are more studious and industrious to make sure of pebbles, than you are to make sure of pearls."
Thomas Brooks


John Newton on God's Sovereignty Over all Things

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"From the tallest archangel, to the meanest ant or fly, all depend on Him for their being, their preservation, and their powers. He directs the sparrows where to build their nests, and to find their food. He over-rules the rise and fall of nations, and bends, with an invincible energy and unerring wisdom, all events; so that, while many intend nothing less, in the issue their designs all concur and coincide in the accomplishment of His holy will. He restrains with a mighty hand the still more formidable efforts of the powers of darkness; and Satan, with all his hosts, cannot exert their malice a hair’s breadth beyond the limits of His permission." 
John Newton


Matthew Henry on Caring for Ones Children

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"Your children are pieces of yourselves, and therefore ought to be governed with great tenderness and love.  When you caution them, when you counsel them, when you reprove them, do it in such a manner as not to exasperate, endeavoring to convince their judgments and to work on their reason."
Matthew Henry


Charles Hodge on the Bible

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, March 26, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself."
Charles Hodge


A. A. Hodge on the Relationship Between the Church and the State

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, March 23, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"If the Church languishes, the State cannot be in health; and if the State rebels against its Lord and King, the Church cannot enjoy his favor."
A. A. Hodge


John Winthrop on the Purpose for Coming to America

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"Whereas we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the liberties of the gospel in purity with peace:"
John Winthrop


A. A. Hodge on the Kingdom of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"The kingdom of God includes all sides of human life, and it is a kingdom of absolute righteousness. You are either a loyal subject or a traitor. When the King comes how will he find you doing?"
A. A. Hodge



Matthew Henry on Sanctification

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 8:05 AM


“None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification.”
Matthew Henry


Jonathan Edwards on Efficacious Grace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, March 19, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different respects, wholly passive and wholly active."
Jonathan Edwards




George Whitefield on Man's Will

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, March 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure"
George Whitefield


A. A. Hodge on a Christian's Obligation to God in all of Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , , | Posted On Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"A Christian is just as much under the obligation to obey God's will in the most secular of his daily business as he is in his closet or at the communion table.  He has no right to separate his life into two realms, and acknowledge different moral codes in each."
A. A. Hodge


John Newton on Trials

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 8:08 AM


"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes, because we need them; and He proportions the frequency and the weight of them to what the case requires.  Let us trust in his skill, and thank Him for His prescription."
John Newton.


Thomas Watson on Reliance on the World

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity."
Thomas Watson


John Owen on Christ's Righteousness and Our Acceptance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Monday, March 12, 2012 at 8:22 AM


"We can begin each day with the deeply encouraging realization, I’m accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ."
John Owen


George Washington on True Americans

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, March 9, 2012 at 9:00 AM

"Do not let anyone claim to be a true American if they ever attempt to remove religion from politics." 

~George Washington~


Daniel Cawdrey on Conscience

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 9:00 AM

"Even as he who is troubled with a burning fever is hotter than he who is parched with the sun; so is that man more troubled who hath a guilty conscience than a good man by all outward afflictions."

~Daniel Cawdrey~

Jeremiah Burroughs on Discipline

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 9:00 AM

"There is more confidence needful in a thing that we impose on others, than in what we practice ourselves.  If a thing be to us rather true than otherwise, we may lawfully do it, but this is not enough to be a ground for the imposing it upon others, who cannot see it to be a truth; in such a case we need to be very sure."
~Jeremiah Burroughs~


Samuel Rutherford on Sin

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Woe to that sinner that gets that which falls to him and is his due, for that is hell."
 ~Samuel Rutherford~

Thomas Manton on Pride

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, March 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM

"This is certainly pride, for it is a lifting up of the heart above God, and against God and without God."

~Thomas Manton~


 

Thomas Watson on Peace

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 9:00 AM

"The godly man, when he dies, "enters into peace" (Isaiah57:2); but while he lives, peace must enter into him."
~Thomas Watson~

 

Augustus Toplady on Free Will

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, March 2, 2012 at 8:00 AM


“A man’s free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.”
Augustus Toplady


Abraham Kuyper on Spheres of Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 8:00 AM


“Virtually all the modern world’s ills come down to this: even the state was claiming authority, that was not the state’s or was abdicating authority where it had legitimate authority. All the ills of the modern world comes down to this: the church has not had the background (some have this as "backbone") to stand against the state. The family has been left unprotected and parental prerogatives has been stolen so that society as God had intended it is no longer able to function under the Lordship of Christ and therefore, new principles and new ideas and new authorities and new sovereignties and new messiahs had been raised up in Christ’s stead.”
Abraham Kuyper