Believers must repent for being discouraged by their sins

“Their being discouraged by their sins will cost them many a prayer, many a tear, and many a groan; and that because their discouragements under sin flow from ignorance and unbelief. It springs from their ignorance of the richness, freeness, fullness, and everlastingness of God’s love; and from their ignorance of the power, glory, sufficiency, and efficacy of the death and sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ; and from their ignorance of the worth, glory, fullness, largeness, and completeness of the righteousness of Jesus Christ; and from their ignorance of that real, close, spiritual, glorious, and inseparable union that is between Christ and their precious souls.
Ah! Did precious souls know and believe the truth of these things as they should, they would not sit down dejected and overwhelmed under the sense and operation of sin. God never gave a believer a new heart that it should always lie a-bleeding, and that it should always be rent and torn in pieces with discouragements.”

- Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

DG National Conference:The Power of Words

Free Downloadable Audio Books Every Month

Every month Christian Audio offers 1 free audio book for download. This month they are offering The Pilgrams Progress by John Bunyan. If you have not gone to this site before & registered, you will have to do that first by clicking this link: Create Account. Then click on the link "Free Downloads" usually in RED lettering on the right of the page. When you select the downloadable version of "The Pilgrams Progress" it will ask you for a code as you are checking out. This month the code is JUN2008. Hope you enjoy these books as much as I do.

A New Blog to Observe

A friend of mine, Dan Christensen (a Pastor, Professor of Islam among other things) has started a blog called the "The Omega Observer" which combines his interests of politics, currents events, and the Middle East with his post-graduate theological studies in apocalyptic literature, specifically biblical prophecy.

In The Righteousness of Christ

The mediatorial righteousness of Christ will answer all the fears, doubts, and objections of your souls.

How shall I look up to God?

How shall I have any communion with a holy God in this world?

How shall I find acceptance with God?

How shall I die?

How shall I stand before the judgment seat?

The Answer is - IN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST

Your sure and only way under all temptations, fears, conflicts, doubts, and disputes, is by faith to remember Christ, and the sufferings of Christ, as your mediator and surety, and say, ‘O Christ! you are my sin—in being made sin for me; and you are my curse—in being made a curse for me. Or rather, I am your sin—and you are my righteousness; I am your curse—and you are my blessing; I am your death—and you are my life; I am the wrath of God to you—and you are the love of God to me; I am your hell—and you are my heaven.’


- Thomas Brooks, A Cabinet of Choice Jewels

Self or Christ?

Have you ever visited the site Of First Importance? It is kind of like a blog, but every day each post is a quote from various people, books, etc..... The quote below is about serving Christ rather than self. I really appreciated it and it brought who & what I serve into perspective, & I hope it does the same for you.

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“Self has no claims upon us, for it has done nothing for us. It has been a wall of iron between us and Christ. Is that a reason that we should serve it? It has been a mountain of ice between us and the world to come. Is that a ground of claim over us?

No, brethren, self has done nothing to make us either live to it or die to it. It never can do anything; shall we then bow to it; shall we serve it; shall we do it homage?

We ask on the other hand—What has the Lord not done? What indissoluble, innumerable bonds are there between us and him, as the living, the dying, and the rising one.

The whole of our life is to be his, as his life was for us. Surely he has earned this, if he has earned anything at all. The least that we can give him is our life; the undivided service of our being, in every part; in our doing, in our speaking, in our planning, and in all our daily round of business, so that every part of our life shall be a witness-bearing for him.”


—Horatius Bonar, “Self or Christ; Which Is It?”

Is Jesus the Only Way?