James Smith on Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The love of Christ is unending"; it is not a passion of His humanity--but a perfection of His divinity. He has always existed--and He has always loved His people."

James Smith


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Humanity

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"This generation of humanity, far from being ruled by reason, is ruled by lust for pleasures and passions for power.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


Thomas Watson on the Incarnation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“[Christ came] “that he might take our flesh, and redeem us; that he might instate us into a kingdom. He was poor, that he might make us rich. He was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that he might give us his Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven.”

Thomas Watson


Horatius Bonar on Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Faith is nothing, save as it lays hold of Christ; and it does so by laying hold of the truth or testimony concerning him."

Horatius Bonar


A. W. Tozer on Worship

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us."

A. W. Tozer


Thomas Watson on the Tongue

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 20, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“The tongue is called our glory (Psalm 30:12), because it is the instrument of glorifying God. When our tongues are out of tune in murmuring, then they are not our glory; but when the organs sound in holy discourse, then our tongues are our glory.”

Thomas Watson


Horatius Bonar on The Spirit

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The object of the Spirit's work is to make us acquainted with the true Jehovah, that in him we may rest; not to produce in us certain feelings, the consciousness of which will make us think better of ourselves, and give us confidence toward God."

Horatius Bonar


J. R. Miller on Joy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.”

J. R. MIller

Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Christians

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"By definition, a Christian should be an enigma to every person who is not a Christian."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


A. W. Tozer on Worship

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 16, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And men who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment."

A. W. Tozer


A. W. Tozer on a Hinderance to Christian Internal Peace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“One of the greatest hindrances to internal peace which the Christian encounters is the common habit of dividing our lives into two areas – the sacred and the secular”

A. W. Tozer


James Smith on Giving Thanks

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Thanksgiving is never out of season, for we have always much to be thankful for. In everything we should give thanks, to that end view all things as arranged by His wisdom, dependant on His will, sanctified by His blessing, according with His promises, and flowing from His love."

James Smith


Thomas Watson on Piety

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 7:29 AM

"Though the business of piety at first seems hard—yet when once we are entered into it, it is pleasant. When the wheels of the soul are oiled with grace, now a Christian moves in piety with facility and delight, Romans vii. 22."

Thomas Watson


J. R. Miller on the Christian

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Yet only as we learn to die to self, do we become like Christ. Unrenewed nature seeks all of self and none of Christ. Becoming a Christian is the taking of Christ into the life in the place of self. Then all is changed. Life has a new centre, a new aim. Christ comes first."

J. R. Miller


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Being Christlike

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"If you try to imitate Christ, the world will praise you; if you become Christlike, the world will hate you."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


A. W. Tozer on Man and God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, December 6, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly.  We insist upon trying to modify Him and to bring Him nearer to our own image.”

A. W. Tozer


James Smith on God's Providence and Grace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The providence that supplies us, is the wisdom, benevolence, and power of God in operation for us; as expressive of His infinite love and unmerited grace."

James Smith


Thomas Watson on Heaven

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Our lives, like the seas, are full of tempests. But in the kingdom of Heaven, there is nothing to give grief. There, all is serene and calm; nothing within to trouble, or without to molest."

Thomas Watson


J. R. Miller on the Patience of Jesus

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Think what patience Jesus had with his disciples, and then read, "As I have loved you." Think how he bore with their faults and failings, with their dulness and slowness, with their unbelief and unfaithfulness, with their denials and betrayals. "As I have loved you, that ye also love one another." How it shames our touchiness, our quick firing up when a brother seems to fail a little in courtesy, or speaks a little quickly ! Was that the way Jesus loved his friends?"

J. R. Miller


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Pride

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, December 2, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Intellectual pride is the last citadel of self."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


Charles Spurgeon on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 29, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty.  While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness."

Charles Spurgeon


G. K. Chesterton on Christianity

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“I do believe in Christianity, and my impression is that a system must be divine which has survived so much insane mismanagement.”

G. K. Chesterton


Thomas Watson on Heaven

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The comforts here below, are checkered. Honor may be stained with disgrace; joy interwoven with sorrow. Our suns are mixed with clouds. But the delicacies of heaven are pure as well as pleasant."

Thomas Watson


J. R. Miller on Seeing the Moral Law in Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Plato expressed a desire that the moral law might become a living personage, that men seeing it thus incarnate, might be charmed by its beauty. Plato's wish was fulfilled in Jesus Christ."

J. R. Miller


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Forgivness and the Christian Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, November 25, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"To divorce forgiveness of sins from the actual living of the Christian life is nothing but rank heresy!"

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


Charles Spurgeon on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 22, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very beneficial lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favors without constraining us to pray for them, we would never know how poor we are.”

Charles Spurgeon


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Spirituality and Grace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 9:40 AM

"The ultimate test of our spirituality, is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


Thomas Brook on Affliction

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 9:13 AM

"Afflictions are the tools by which the Father does more and more carve, form, and fashion His precious saints into the similitude and likeness of His dearest Son."

Thomas Brooks


G.K. Chesterton on Gratitude and Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”

G. K. Chesterton


Charles Spurgeon on Hope and Joy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The man who has this hope in Him (Christ) goes about his work with vigor, for the joy of the Lord is his strength. "

Charles Spurgeon


G. K. Chesterton on the World

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”

G. K. Chesterton

Charles Spurgeon on Hope for the Future

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there. Here we are weary and toilworn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall no more bedew the worker's brow, and fatigue shall be forever banished."

Charles Spurgeon


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Pride

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Pride is probably the deadliest and the most subtle of all sins, and it can assume many forms; but as long as one realizes this al is well"

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


A. W. Tozer on Contemporary Christianity

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 9:23 AM

"The God of contemporary Christianity is only slightly superior to the gods of Greece and Rome, if indeed He is not actually inferior to them in that He is weak and helpless while they at least had power."

A. W. Tozer


J. R. Miller on Blessing from God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 11, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“God does not like to bestow his blessings where they will be hoarded, but he loves to put them into the hands of those who will do the most with them to bless their fellows. The central object of true living is to be helpful to others. The true life is one devoted to Christ, to be used then for him in blessing others."

J. R. Miller


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Spirituality

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The ultimate test of our spirituality, is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


A. W. Tozer on the Importance of a Right Conception of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well. It is to worship what the foundation is to the temple; where it is inadequate or out of plumb the whole structure must sooner or later collapse."

A. W. Tozer


J. R. Miller on Ones Love for Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“We need to watch our inner spiritual state. The world may see no abatement in our zeal, in our religious activity, in our earnest advocacy of the truth, and yet there may be less prayerfulness, less love for Christ, less tenderness of conscience, less hunger for righteousness, less desire for holiness. Is Christ more to you now than ever he was before?"

J. R. Miller



Theodore Cuyler on Theology

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“None but a theology that came out of eternity can carry you and me safely to and through eternity.”

Theodore Cuyler


John Newton on Conforming to the Image of Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Monday, November 4, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"To behold the glory and the love of Jesus is the only effectual way to participate of His image.”

John Newton


Theodore Cuyler on Living out Ones Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent and soul-convincing than a sermon on paper.”

Theodore Cuyler


John Newton on Humility

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"An humble frame of mind is the strength and ornament of every other grace, and the proper soil wherein they grow.”

John Newton


Charles Spurgeon on Serving Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“When we serve our Lord Jesus as believers should do, our God is with us; and though we have the whole world against us, if we have God with us, what does it matter?”

Charles Spurgeon


J. C. Ryle on Humility

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“The root of humility is right knowledge. The man who really knows . . . himself—and his own heart; God—and His infinite majesty and holiness; Christ—and the price at which he was redeemed; that man will never be a proud man!”

J. C. Ryle


Charles Spurgeon on Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 28, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"He that hath Christ, being a pauper, hath all things; and he that hath not Christ, possessing a thousand worlds, possesses nothing for real happiness and joy."

Charles Spurgeon


Charles Spurgeon on God Knowing His People

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Friday, October 25, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“He who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting His own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature He ever made, or the only saint He ever loved. Approach Him and be at peace.”

Charles Spurgeon


J. C. Ryle on Humility

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“Humility may well be called the 'queen of the Christian graces'. To know our own sinfulness and weakness, and to feel our need of Christ, is the very beginning of saving religion.”

J. C. Ryle


James Smith on The Church

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"We should be zealous for the Lord's cause. He has a cause upon the earth. It is the cause of holiness and truth. It is distinct from the world, but is intended to be a blessing to the world. It is called his Church. The Church in which he dwells, by which he works, through which he communicates his blessings."

James Smith


Charles Spurgeon on Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Oh, if you want to know what heaven is, know what Christ is, for the way to spell heaven is with those five letters that make up the word Jesus."

Charles Spurgeon


Thomas Watson on Mercy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"Every time you draw your breath, you suck in mercy."

Thomas Watson