Followers of Jesus are apprentices who’ve embraced a life of learning. We never leave school. Even when we feel we have something to teach…

“Don’t buy the lie that cultivating condemnation and wallowing in your shame is somehow pleasing to God, or that a constant, low-grade guilt will somehow promote holiness and spiritual maturity. It’s just the opposite! God is glorified when we believe with all our hearts that those who trust in Christ can never be condemned. It’s only when we receive his free gift of grace and live in the good of total forgiveness that we’re able to turn from old, sinful ways of living and walk in grace-motivated obedience.” – C.J. Mahaney

“Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.” – R.C. Sproul

“All that we receive in time, all the streams that come to our souls, are but so many streams flowing from that inexhaustible fountain, God’s electing, God’s sovereign, God’s distinguishing, God’s everlasting love.” – George Whitefield, ‘The Righteousness of Christ an Everlasting Righteousness,’ in Lee Gatiss, ed., The Sermons of George Whitefield (2 vols; Crossway, 2012), 1:290

“There is no reward from God for those who seek it from men.” – Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Prayer is the secret of holiness.” – R.C. Sproul

“Crucified for our sins and raised for our justification.” (The Gospel in 9 words) – Dr. Michael Horton

“What man will renounce his own work in order to trust to that of another, unless he be first convinced that his own is worthless? What man will repose for safety in another till he be convinced that there is no safety in trusting to himself? It is impossible. Man cannot do this of himself: it takes the work of God.” It is the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, and that alone, which brings the sinner to renounce his own works and lay hold on the Lord Jesus for salvation.” – A W Pink

Eph 5:33 – “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

“When a man is communicating his love for his wife (both verbally and physically), he should be seeking to communicate to her the security provided by his covenantal commitment. He will provide for her, he will nourish and cherish her, he will sacrifice for her, and so forth. Her need is to be secure in his love for her. Her need is to receive love from him.

When a wife is respecting and honoring her husband, the transaction is quite different. Instead of concentrating on the security of the relationship, respect is directed to his abilities and achievements – how hard he works, how faithfully he comes home, how patient he is with the kids, and so forth.” – Douglas Wilson, Reforming Marriage (Moscow, Id,: Canon Press, 1995), 28.

“The taught of God may fall, but not fall away—fearfully, but not finally; terribly, but not totally.” – Thomas Case

“It is condescending love, it is amazing, it is forgiving love, it is dying love, it is exalted and interceding love and it is glorified love. I am talking of the love of Jesus Christ, who loved me before I loved him. He saw us polluted in blood, full of sores, a slave to sin, to death and hell, running to destruction, then he passed by me and said unto my soul, ‘Live,’ he snatched me as a brand plucked from the burning. It was love that saved me, it was all of the free grace of God and that only.” – George Whitefield, ‘Christ the Support of the Tempted,’ a sermon preached in 1740 in England, from Lee Gatiss, ed., The Sermons of George Whitefield (2 vols; Crossway, 2012), 1:341

“If we love Christ and He be ours, it will be a far greater exaltation than if we were from beggars turned to potent monarchs.” – Jonathan Edwards
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The covenant of redemption is a term we all should get to know – also known by its Latin name, the “pactum salutis,” this covenant was made in eternity past between the three Divine Persons of the holy Trinity. The Father planned redemption, choosing a people to save for Himself; the Son accomplished redemption, living a perfect life of righteousness and as their spotless and holy Substitute, He died for their sins and rose from the grave victorious; and the Spirit applies this redemptive work of Christ to this same elect group, bringing each of them from death to spiritual life and sealing them for the day of redemption. Nothing God planned to do from eternity will ever fail to come to pass. In this failproof plan, all three persons of the Trinity work together, each with their differing but entirely complimentary roles. This then is the starting point to talk about salvation. To start anywhere else, especially to start with man as the creature, and salvation becomes impoverished, meager and very fragile. Yet ours is so great a salvation, for just this reason – salvation is of the Lord!