Showing posts with label Cross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cross. Show all posts

Carl F. H. Henry on the Cross

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 5:30 AM

"Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?"
Carl F. H. Henry


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Isaac Watts Hymn: Nature With Open Volume Stands

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , , | Posted On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 6:30 AM

Nature With Open Volume Stands

Nature with open volume stands,
To spread her Maker's praise abroad,
And ev'ry labor of His hands
Shows something worthy of our God.

But in the grace that rescued man
His brightest form of glory shines;
Here on the cross 'tis fairest drawn,
In precious blood and crimson lines.

Here his whole name appears complete
Nor wit can guess, nor reason prove
Which of the letters is best writ,
The Pow'r, the Wisdom, or the Love.

Here I behold His inmost heart
Where grace and vengeance strangely join,
Here on the Cross 'tis fairest drawn
In precious blood and crimson lines.

O the sweet wonders of that Cross
Where God the Savior loved and died!
Her noblest life my spirit draws
From His dear wounds and bleeding side.

I would for ever speak His name,
In sounds to mortal ears unknown,
With angels join to praise the Lamb,
And worship at His Father's throne.

Isaac Watts


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Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Cross and God's Love

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, May 7, 2012 at 8:00 AM


“The cross is not something that influences the love of God; no, the love of God produced it. That is the order.  Were it not for His love, God would have punished sin in us, and we should all suffer eternal death. Indeed, I do not hesitate to go so far as to say this: Nothing anywhere in the Scripture in any way approaches the substitutionary and penal doctrine of the atonement as an exposition and an explanation of the love of God. Is there anything greater than this, that God should take your sins and mine and put them on His own Son and punish His own Son, not sparing Him anything, causing Him to suffer all that, that you and I might be forgiven?  Can you tell me any greater exhibition of the love of God than that?”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones


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J.C. Ryle on the Cross

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

"Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross. A man who teaches in this way might as well profess to explain the solar system, and yet tell his hearers nothing about the sun."
J.C. Ryle
 

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