“…if you preach God’s Word faithfully, few people will be tempted to think that you are great… they will praise God, or they will think you are a complete idiot.” by Mike McKinley

..if you preach God’s Word faithfully, few people will be tempted to think that you are great. If you stand up on Sunday morning and explain that when Jesus forgave the sins of the paralytic in Mark 2, he was claiming to be God and that the only way for sins to be forgiven was …

“What is it to be bruised?” by Richard Sibbes

The bruised reed is a man that for the most part is in some misery, as those were that came to Christ for help and by misery he is brought to see sin as the cause of it, for, whatever pretences sin makes, they come to an end when we are bruised and broken. He …

“What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption!” by Richard Sibbes

In time of temptation, apprehensive consciences look so much to the present trouble they are in that they need to be roused up to behold him in whom they may find rest for their distressed souls. In temptations it is safest to behold nothing but Christ the true brazen serpent, the true ‘Lamb of God …

“When we realize that God is the perfection of all that we long for or desire, that he is the summation of everything beautiful or desirable, then we realize that the greatest joy of the life to come will be that we ‘shall see his face.’” by Wayne Grudem

Jesus says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8). We will be able to see the human nature of Jesus, of course (Rev. 1:7). But it is not clear in exactly what sense we will be able to “see” the Father and the Holy Spirit, or the divine nature …