In Christ
Fayetteville, AR
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'Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.'
Grateful to God for Dr. Sailhamer (1946–2017) for pointing us to the text.
Father,
in Your mercy
dispel the darkness
of this night,
and let Your servant
sleep in peace,
that at the dawn
of a new day
I may wake
with joy in Your Name;
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
“A man that is a stranger to meditation is a stranger to himself.”
–Thomas Manton, The Works of Thomas Manton, Vol. 17 (Carlisle, PA: @banneroftruth, 1870/2020), 17: 271.
“They thrive best that meditate most; knowledge floateth, till by deliberate thoughts it be compressed upon the affections.”
–Thomas Manton, Works (@banneroftruth), 17: 272.
“Be always comforting of yourselves with the thoughts of your Adoption. Let this joy dispel the mists of every sorrow, and clear up your souls in the midst of all troubles and difficulties as you await heavenly glory, where you will live out your perfect adoption by forever communing with the Triune God. There you will dwell at the fountain, and swim forever in those bankless, and bottomless oceans of glory.”
-Samuel Willard, The Child’s Portion: Or the Unseen Glory of the Children of God (Boston: Samuel Green, 1684), 69-70.
TURRETIN:
"The righteousness of Christ alone imputed to us is the foundation and meritorious cause upon which our absolutary sentence rests, so that for no other reason does God bestow the pardon of sin and the right to life than on account of the most perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to us and apprehended by faith."
"For some, the doctrine of justification may be a doctrinal point of war in which fights rage and applause is won.
Yet, for many of us, the doctrine of justification is the warm solace of the soul and the graveyard of our guilt and shame."
–@RonniKurtz, Theology for Life: A Joy-Filled Introduction to Christian Doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2026), 163.
"Faith brings an empty hand, receives everything, and can give nothing in return."
–J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Mark (Carlisle, PA: @banneroftruth, 1859/2012), 88. Ryle is commenting on Mark 5:21-34.
“I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.”
–Charles Spurgeon, “The Fruit of the Spirit: Joy,” (MTPS, 27: 77).
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"Men and devils are as able, and shall as soon, make a world, dethrone God, pluck the sun out of the firmament, and Christ out of the bosom of the Father, as they shall pluck a believer out of the everlasting arms of Christ."
-Thomas Brooks, Works (@banneroftruth), 2: 330.
"Glorifying of God has respect to all the persons in the Trinity.
It respects God the Father, who gave us our life.
It respects God the Son, who lost His life for us.
It respects God the Holy Spirit, who produces a new life in us.
We must bring glory to the whole Trinity.”
–Thomas Watson, A Body of Practical Divinity, in The Works of Thomas Watson, Volume 2, Ed. J. Stephen Yuille and Jordan Stone (Grand Rapids, MI: @RHB_Books, 2026), 2: 13-14.
