ryan.the.calvinist

This past week, I caught up in my Bible reading calendar… and came to John 14:18-21 a few days ago: I will not leave you as orphans;  I will come to you.  Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me.  Because I live, you also will live.  In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.  Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.  And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. In all honesty, the thought of this saying of Jesus causes me to tremble a bit.   If it doesn’t cause you to tremble, look at your own life for a bit. Why do I tremble? I do not obey Christ perfectly.  We know from Scripture that God’s law – his statutes – his commands demand perfect obedience.  I can’t wonder, how many people can I be really unjustly angry with and NOT be counted a murderer?   Or how many girls can I lust af...

While attending The Journey this summer, I received several inserts in bulletin inserts containing amazing quotes.  Currently I am using one of these inserts to read CS Lewis' Surprised By Joy:  The Shape of My Early Life .  In any case, this particular collection of quotes are amazing reflections/insights into the importance of the cross of Christ, where the gospel resides.  I will proceed to post these as status updates on facebook, but I wanted to write them down in a more organized location also.  Here they are, in the order presented on the page. "The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.  Man... puts himself where only God deserves to be;  God... puts himself where man deserves to be." - John Stott, The Cross of Christ. "Learn to know Christ and him crucified.  Learn to sing to him and say, Lord you are my righteousness, I am your sin.  You took on you ...