Reformed folks: the dry, hard, stale, arid, non-experiential stuff that you see among us today is an aberration from our English Puritan, Scottish covenanter, & Reformed forefathers. Bring back warm orthodoxy!

I asked Dick Lucas what are the keys to keeping going in ministry, he said..... 1. Get a good wife 2. Take a day off 3. Have lots of opposition to make you rely on God

Martin Luther's abbreviation of the creed: “I believe in God the Father, who created me; I believe in God the Son, who has redeemed me; I believe in the Holy Spirit, who makes me holy.”

I mourn and grieve that our ministers are so much diluting the Word of God with philosophy, desiring to be intellectual preachers, delivering model sermons well fitted for a room full of college students and professors of theology, but of no use to the masses, being destitute of

🔥𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓🔥 Join us for a night of worship, vision and prayer as Advance churches from NI gather to be encouraged and empowered. Open to all - whether you are part of Advance or want to learn more about planting and strengthening churches across Ireland.

I don't know where this graphic came from, but it's a good summary of the two positions. I also didn't know Sproul said miracles don't happen anymore. Et tu, Brute?

“There is a reason the Reformation lit up Europe.” — Mark Dever 🔥 I watch this every year. Never gets old.

Pray, and let God worry. Luther

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Prayer grows where prayer is not the object of contemplation, but God. Talk to me about prayer, and my prayer life remains stubbornly unmoved. Show me God, and prayer ignites unbidden.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be. — Spurgeon

Great to start the morning welcoming in 4 new churches into Advance Movement this morning. Including Tyler Rawson and the guys over at Immanuel in Millisle. So exciting! More Lord!

I see a cloud as small as a man’s fist.

What do the Puritans, Tozer, Edwards, MLJ, Ravenhill, EM Bounds, Whitefield, & Spurgeon all have in common? They confront us with these questions: Is God real to you? Is your Christian experience a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God? Do you have a

Christopher Ash on why we should read historical theology:

Thursday morning off with my favourite things: Hazel, bump, coffee and Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

On the night of Jesus’s arrest, Peter was willing to kill for him but not to die for him. LESSON: There’s a type of counterfeit faithfulness that’s willing to “kill” for Christ, but not willing to die for him. —@HowertonJosh

J.M. Boice on our adoption: Having justified us, God could still have left us on a much inferior level of status and privilege. Instead, he took us into his own family giving us the status and privilege of daughters and sons. Praise God.

8 mentoring/discipling questions you can use when meeting with Christians 1-1 or in a small group: 1. Are you reading your Bible? What are you learning? Is there anything you don’t understand? (Get him on a Bible reading plan for accountability & consistency.) 2. How's your

“Last month … in one infamous week, this House authorised the killing of unborn children … & … the killing of the elderly & disabled … We gave our consent to the greatest crime: the killing of the weak and most defenceless human beings. It was a great sin.”