'The saints receive by Christ the most quiet and sure rest and peace…How rational a ground of peace have they that have their sins pardoned and that have God, who has all things in his hands, for their assured friend!' Jonathan Edwards

‘Peace is a good so great, that even in this earthly and mortal life, there is no word we hear with such pleasure, nothing we desire with such zest, or find to be more thoroughly gratifying.' Augustine

'When anger is unleashed...measure and restraint are abandoned and controversy is no longer a matter of mutual access to and sharing of the goods of truth, but a contest for the survival of selves inflamed by emotion and doing battle in the dark.' Webster on theological conflict

"Go where you will, though you should be in the purest society under heaven, you will find that the best of men are men at best." George Whitefield to John Cennick upon their separation in 1745.

Grateful to have Spurgeon the Pastor in my hand! We know Spurgeon the preacher, the author, the philanthropist, the controversialist... But do we know Spurgeon the pastor? With all he did, we can easily forget that he was fundamentally the pastor of a local church.

How does a productive pastor not burn out? I didn’t expect to find the answer from John Gill. Gill didn’t work an insane schedule. He pastored from age 21 to 74 and never burnt out. Here’s what I learned from his life. buff.ly/3xnixfs

Very grateful to Jim Hamilton for two inspiring lectures on typology hosted London Seminary this morning. Thank you for your love for the Word (and your plug for biblical languages!) Thank you to the Grace Baptist Association SE for organising this.

A single assembly model moves churches toward greater catholicity, which in turn encourages evangelism and extends God’s kingdom. Alexander Arrell buff.ly/44ic4Ri