Saturday, February 15, 2014

A Description of the Believer's Entrance into Heaven

From Isaac Ambrose (1600's): Christ welcomes them into his glorious presence. If the father could receive his prodigal but repenting son with hugs and kisses, how will Christ now receive His saints, when they come as a bride to the solemnization of the marriage? His very heart springs (as I may say) at the sight of His Bride! No sooner [does] He see her and salute her, but He welcomes her with...

Friday, February 7, 2014

Saving Faith | An Illustration by Spurgeon

I bet when Spurgeon preached this, the people sat on the edge of their seats (with even a few laughs throughout)... Faith is something like this. There is a story told of a captain of a man-of-war, whose son—a young lad—was very fond of running up the rigging of the ship; and one time, running after a monkey, he ran up the mast, till at last he got on to the maintruck. Now, the maintruck, you are...

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

How to glorify God (learning from Psalm 66)

How To Glorify GodLearning from Psalm 66Geoffrey R. KirklandChrist Fellowship Bible Church Psalm 66:2 tells God’s people to “sing the glory of His Name” and to “make His praise glorious.” So how does one glorify God? What can this psalm teach as far as “glorifying God”? I would like to look at Psalm...