Category: Word for the Day

Word for the Day

James Claypool

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life.

Bounds, E. M.. Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer (with Active Table of Contents) [Annotated] (Kindle Locations 156-157). Niche Edition. Kindle Edition.

Word for the Day

James Claypool

We glorify God when we are devoted to his service; our head studies for him, our tongue pleads for him, and our hands relieve his members.

Watson, Thomas. The Essential Works Of Thomas Watson (Kindle Locations 282-283). GLH Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Word for the Day

James Claypool

In the last analysis atheism results from the perverted moral state of man and from his desire to escape from God. It is deliberately blind to and suppresses the most fundamental instinct of man, the deepest needs of the soul, the highest aspirations of the human spirit, and the longings of a heart that gropes after some higher Being.

Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology (p. 5). GLH Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Word for the Day

James Claypool

How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of “accepting” Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls. We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Tozer, A. W. (Aiden Wilson). The Pursuit of God (Kindle Locations 134-137). Kindle Edition.

Word for the Day

James Claypool

Will we let them sit at ease in Zion while certain judgment is visible from the watchtower? Should we not cry out to them: Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light. (Eph. 5:14) Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. (2 Cor. 13:5) Make your call and election sure. (2 Peter 1:10) Understand that this is not a call for ministers or laypeople to become the judges of others, but to put away the belief in and proclamation of a superficial and powerless gospel that is granting assurance to millions, making them resistant against a biblical gospel and sealing their eternal condemnation. We must learn to console and assure the weakest saint who is broken over his many sins, but we must also learn to warn the false convert whose life is a barren and fruitless tree and whose settled manner of living is a contradiction to the gospel.

Washer, Paul. Gospel Assurance and Warnings (Recovering the Gospel Series) (Kindle Locations 401-409). Reformation Heritage Books. Kindle Edition.

Word for the Day

James Claypool

Joshua is in the Old Testament in relation to the Pentateuch what the book of Acts is in the New Testament in relation to the four Gospels.

Francis A. Schaeffer. Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History (Kindle Locations 55-56). Kindle Edition.

Word for the Day

James Claypool

“Repent and believe!” is the gospel call for yesterday, today, and forever.

Washer, Paul. The Gospel Call and True Conversion (Recovering the Gospel Book 2) (Kindle Locations 186-187). Reformation Heritage Books. Kindle Edition.

Word for the Day

James Claypool

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before. All-night prayer meetings that are not preceded by practical repentance may actually be displeasing to God. “To obey is better than sacrifice.”

Tozer, A. W.. Keys to the Deeper Life (Kindle Locations 103-105). Pioneer Library. Kindle Edition.