Richard Sibbes – Standing Before God, This We Are and No More

The Tender Heart – Richard Sibbes

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Loved in Christ for the New Year

Now, where Christ’s Spirit is, He will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good. Christ was content to be accounted, not only a servant of God, but of the church. ~ Richard Sibbes, VolumeContinue reading “Loved in Christ for the New Year”

Fixed on Christ for the New Year

If Christ had prioritized His own things, where would our salvation be? Christ was content to leave heaven, and to take our nature upon Him, to be Emmanuel, God with us, that we might be with God for ever in heaven. He was content, not only to leave heaven, but to be born in theContinue reading “Fixed on Christ for the New Year”

The Five Ways God Invites Us to Come to Jesus – Richard Sibbes

The following has been taken and edited from The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, Volume 7, pages 462-464, in the sermon The Witness of Salvation. Italicised words are my edits and are not found directly in the words of Richard Sibbes. The words that remain un-italicised are Sibbes words. According to God’s way of salvation,Continue reading “The Five Ways God Invites Us to Come to Jesus – Richard Sibbes”

Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 25

Sometimes it just has to be face to face.[1] You can see all posts in this series by clicking on this line. Merry Christmas! Long distance with my now wife was, well, long and distant! One of the joys, though, were the conversations. Face-to-face (over a screen), even across the country or across an ocean,Continue reading “Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 25”

Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 18

for the past two thousand years people have discovered that once they catch a glimpse of Jesus, God’s salvation, then death is not the great enemy anymore. The world has been overrun by an army of Simeons: having seen Jesus, they are ready to die. Ready to be martyred. Ready to step into eternity.[1] YouContinue reading “Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 18”

Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 3

Would there ever be another prophet like Moses? A man who knew the LORD face to face and could represent Him to the people? Peter mead, pleased to dwell, 43 You can see all posts in this series by clicking on this line. How wonderful that we can answer “Yes and Amen” because of JesusContinue reading “Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 3”

Christ Against All

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 1 John 5:4 How doth faith overcome the world? Because it overcomes all things in the world, as, on the right hand, pleasures and profits and honours, and on the left hand, threatenings,Continue reading “Christ Against All”

Rain and Warmth

There is, saith a good man, as much difference between a sermon in the pulpit and printed in a book, as between milk in the warm breast and in the sucking bottle. Yet the convenience of it is very great. Good books are the baskets that preserve excellent lessons that they be not lost .Continue reading “Rain and Warmth”

Falling Higher

My brethren, God doth not save us merely by predestination, he doth not glorify us merely by predestination. ~ Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Volume 2 Likewise, some are much troubled, because they proceed by a false method and order in judging of their estates. They will begin with election, which is theContinue reading “Falling Higher”