On My Way To Heaven

he task (confronting parents) is to bring the children to love that Biblical standard. at the very center of childrearing, therefore, is the question of inculcating loyalty. a covenant family cannot stay together without loyalty. But loyalty is a function of deep gratitude, and gratitude is a function of grace”
Douglas Wilson, My Life For Yours, p. 107

“Don’t Starve the Grace

What I do know is: Without it you starve every grace that God means for you to thrive on his world. There is a spiritual diet without which no Christian can be strong and healthy and fruitful. And that is a diet of the word of God.

So here I am, longing, praying, pleading that you give yourself to the word of God in 2010. Give yourself to the word of God. Give yourself”

From one of John piper’s sermons, Holding Fast the Word of Life in 2010

od has a precise calendar for the events of world history, a calendar that is accurate to the day, yet at the same time utterly innescrutable to all human efforts to decode it”

Iain M. Duguid

true saint is a divine landscape or picture where all the rare

beauties of Christ are portrayed in a lively manner and drawn forth”

Thomas Watson in The Art of Divine  Contentment, p.6

“…The lack of discipline has a destructive impact on the future course of a son’s life. A parental refusal to discipline is therefore an act of hatred”

Standing on the Promises. by Douglas Wilson, p.41

“The case can be made that every corruption of biblical Christianity begins by compromising the principle of sufficiency. Every deviation from Christianity established by Christ and the apostles begins by adding to the Bible or by taking away from it. Every deviation is the Bible plus or minus something”

The Case for Traditional Protestantism. The Solas of the Reformation. by Terry L. Johnson  p..38

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks”

How to Read a Book.  by Mortimer J Adler & Charles Van Doren p.49

“By reading that Book (the Bible) we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do, how to live with comfort and how to die in peace. Happy is that man possesses a Bible! Happier still is he who reads it!  Happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys it, and makes it the rule of his faith and practice”

Practical Religion by J.C. Ryle p.97

“What is central to the Bible is the true and the right, sin and grace, God’s wrath and Christ’s death; what is central to so many people today is simple what offers internal relief”

We Become what we Worship by G.K. Beale (quoting David F. Wells) p.294

“I have to wonder again, how different the world might be if we acted on our conviction that the Bible is the Word of God, if God’s people were in the habit of interpreting everything in light of that Word. How might we teach our children if we loved and delighted in God’s Word and in his world?”

When You Rise Up by R.C. Sproul Jr.

“Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told”

The Duties of Parents by J.C. Ryle  p.28

“Our children need to know the glory and the beauty of heaven, to long for a better country, to know that their citizenship is in heaven alone”

When You Rise Up. by R.C. Sproul Jr.  p.104

“When praying for forgiveness, we should not neglect  to pray for strength against temptation, for there will always be stirrings of corruption within us”.

Commentary on the Psalms by John Calvin. Abridged by David C. Searle. Banner of Truth. p 107 (On Psalm 19)

(Thus) David,while thinking he is forsaken by God, nevertheless grasps by faith the grace of God; so it is that conflicting emotions are woven into believer’s prayers. Satan’s temptation is to pursuade us that God has forgotten us, ti urge us to despair and so to overthrow  our faith; but faith responds by seeing the grace of God in the mirror of his promises, and so waits upon him until he shows again his fatherly countenance”

Ibid p. 116  (On Psalm 22)