Self-Forgetfulness
"Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and a grievous loss." (Alan Jacobs, The Narnian, xxiii)
Stirring An Affection For Christ In All Things
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
"Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and a grievous loss." (Alan Jacobs, The Narnian, xxiii)
Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
To you, O Lord, I call;my rock, be not deaf to me,lest, if you be silent to me,I become like those who go down to the pit.2 Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,when I cry to you for help,when I lift up my handstoward your most holy sanctuary. (Psalm 28:1-2)
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
Our past can haunt us.
Would you like to get rid of this spiritual depression? The first think you have to do is say farewell now once and forever to your past. Realize that it has been covered and blotted out in Christ. Never look back at your sins again. Say: "It is finished, it is covered by the Blood of Christ." That is your first step. Take that and finish yourself and all this talk about goodness, and look to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is only then that true happiness and joy are possible for you. What you need is not to make resolutions to live a better life, to start fasting and sweating and praying. No! you just begin to say:I rest my faith on Him aloneWho died for my transgressions to atoneTake that first step and you will find that immediately you will begin to experience a joy and a release that you have never known in your life. (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, 35)GB
Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
James Spiegel, in his book, The Making of an Atheist shows how closely atheism and fatherlessness are connected.
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
I was recently asked what books I thought every Christian should read. While there are many, here are 10 (in no certain order) I would like for everyone in my church to read:
Posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
Let me make a personal confession. This kind of thing has often happened to me in my ministry. Sometimes God has been gracious on a Sunday and I have been conscious of exceptional liberty, and I have been foolish enough to listen to the devil when he says: 'Now, then, you wait until next Sunday, it is going to be marvelous, there will be even larger congregations.' And I go into the pulpit the next Sunday and I see a smaller congregation. But then on another occasion I stand in this pulpit laboring, as it were left to myself, preaching badly and utterly weak, and the devil has come and said: 'There will be nobody there at all next Sunday.' But thank God, I have found on the following Sunday a larger congregation. That is God's method of accountancy. You never know. I enter the pulpit in weakness and I end with power. I enter with self-confidence and I am made to feel a fool. It is God's accountancy. He knows us so much better that we know ourselves. He is always giving us surprises. You never know what He is going to do. His book-keeping is the most romantic think I know of in the whole world. (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, 131)
Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
So I have decided not to eat meat for Lent. Thats right, 40 days with no steak, burgers, fajitas, chicken sandwiches, monterey chicken at Chili's, no chili, no tacos . . . should I keep going!? You get the idea!
Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
"We are all too Christian to really enjoy sinning, and all too fond of sin to really enjoy Christianity." (Peter Marshall, Quoted in Whiter Than Snow by Ted Tripp)
Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
Posted on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 by Greg Breazeale | 0 comments
At the recent Desiring God Pastor's Conference, John Piper presented a biographical sketch of C.S. Lewis entitled: Lessons From An Inconsolable Soul.
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