Richard Baxter – Prayer Makes History

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330px-Richard_Baxter_Colour Richard Baxter, 1615-1691

This is from the blog Exploring God’s Library:

Light from Old Times by J.C. Ryle
From:  A Revival Resource Center

Richard Baxter – “Prayer Makes History”:

Many within the Church today feel as if they are drowning in a river of empty words and hollow promises. Demoralized by superficial religion, their hungry hearts are crying out, “Where is the REAL Church, mighty in truth and power?” There are many who can give us a moving definition of revival, but where are the MEN who can move the Church with a demonstration of revival? As the late Leonard Ravenhill once said, “We can all make the menu, but we can’t make the meal.” Proverbs 27:7 tells us that, “To the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.” Sadly, multitudes of hungry and disillusioned souls are seeking the bitter bread of a godliness that denies power, or a…

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Wisdom of the Ages – Thomas Watson

“Knowledge without repentancewill be but a torch to light men to hell”

Wisdom of the Ages

“Knowledge without repentance
will be but a torch to light men to hell”
Thomas Watson

Wisdom of the Ages – G.D. Watson

Wisdom of the Ages

gd watson

“It is the office of Jesus to reveal to us the word of truth, and it is the office of the Holy Spirit to reveal in us the power of truth”
G.D. Watson

“I indeed have baptized you with water:
but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost”
Mark 1:8

Wisdom of the Ages – Andrew Jukes

Presumption and the Elect

Wisdom of the Ages

“The prophet who foresees that “He shall deliver the needy, when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper” (Psalm 72:12); no less declares that He “loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity” (Psalm 45:5, 7; Heb. 1:9), and that “He cometh to judge the world with equity and the people with His truth” (Psalm 96:13). Some of His elect may think, that, because they are elect, He will not judge them. But because He is the Truth, He must judge all wrong, and judge it even more in those who know and are near Him, than in those who know Him not. For He reveals Him who said of old, “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I punish you for your iniquities” (Amos 3:2)
– Andrew Jukes

J.C. Ryle

Wisdom of the Ages

JC Ryle

“Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.”
– J.C. Ryle