Quotes #16…Jeff Allen (Born 1956)

October 30, 2025

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Quote #15… Richard Baxter (2) 1615-1691

October 27, 2025

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 1

Bring not an evil heart of unbelief. Open the Bible with holy reverence as the book of God, indited by the Holy Ghost. Remember that the doctrine of the New Testament was revealed by the Son of God, who was purposely sent from heaven to be the light of the world, and to make known to men the will of God, and the matters of their salvation. Bethink you well, if God should but send a book or letter to you by an angel, how reverently you would receive it? How carefully you would peruse it; and regard it above all the books in the world? And how much rather should you do so, by that book which is indited by the Holy Ghost, and recordeth the doctrine of Christ himself, whose authority is greater than all the angels? Read it not therefore as a common book, with a common and unreverent heart; but in the dread and love of God the author.
(to be continued…)

From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3.

Part One

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He has called us out of this world…

October 26, 2025
The true gospel is not pleasing to man

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Quotes #13…Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758

October 16, 2025

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

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Quote #10…Richard Baxter (1) 1615-1691

October 6, 2025

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures.

SEEING the diversity of men’s tempers and understandings is so exceedingly great, that it is impossible that any thing should be pleasing and suitable to some, which shall not be disliked and quarrelled with by others; and seeing in the Scriptures there are many things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest to their own destruction (a). And the word is to some the savour of death unto death (b). You have therefore need to be careful in reading it. And as Christ saith, “Take heed how you hear;(c)” so I say, Take heed how you read.
(…to be continued)

(a) Pet. 3:16. (b) Mark 4:24. 2 Cor. 2:16. (c) Luke 8:18.

From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Volume 3. 

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Voddie Baucham 1969-September 25, 2025

September 25, 2025

A servant of God is now with the Lord. I appreciate this man and what he did to help my understanding of our great God. Here is just one of his many hopeful sermons:

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If you like debates…

September 18, 2025

If you like debates, you have probably found places where you can occasional watch one. One of the places I keep an eye on is the You Tube channel called “Standing for Truth.” I do not like debates that are not civil or where name calling is allowed. Usually, in a debate, when name calling starts the debate is over and it becomes hard to hear any constructive debate on real differences.

Although the normal moderator is a young man, Donny Budinsky, he has moderated many debates and he does a good job keeping discussions civil. Debate formats are discussed before each debate so that there are no questions about how the debate will take place. Nearly 100% of the debates on on themes that deal with faith or personal beliefs. I started watching Donny’s channel for some of the debates he had on the subject of Creation/Evolution. Since then, I have watched multiple debates on many different subjects.

If you are interested in seeing some of the subjects of the debates on the channel, you can click on “Standing for Truth.” The channel has almost 150 playlists, most of them with multiple videos. Of course, most debates take a good deal of time to digest so they aren’t for everyone. The last one I watched dealt with the different views of two believers on the subject “Is Compatibilism Biblical?” It is an interesting discussion on Calvinism that lasts almost three hours:

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Quotes…#4 Adam Clarke 1762–1832

September 10, 2025

“‘That walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.’ Mark certain circumstances of their differing characters and conduct. The ungodly man is unconcerned about religion; he is neither zealous for his own salvation nor for that of others; and he counsels and advises those with whom he converses to adopt his plan, and not trouble themselves about praying, reading, repentance, etc., etc.; ‘there is no need for such things; live an honest life, make no fuss about religion, and you will fare well enough at last.’ Now, ‘blessed is the man who walks not in this man’s counsel,’ who does not come into his measures nor act according to his plan…”

Quoted about Psalm 1:1 in C.H.S.’s Treasury of David (Expositions of the Psalms)

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Quotes…#2 John Trapp 1660

September 1, 2025

“The psalmist saith more to the point about true happiness in this short Psalm than any one of the philosophers, or all of them put together; they did but beat the bush, God hath here put the bird into our hand.”

Quoted about Psalm 1 in C.H.S.’s Treasury of David (Exposition of the Psalms). Some think Trapp may have been referring to Psalm 16.

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Quotes…#1 Spurgeon 1855

August 27, 2025

“The preaching of good works and the exhorting of men to holiness, as the means of salvation, is very much admired in theory, but when brought into practice, it is found not only ineffectual, but more than that—it becomes even ‘a savour of death unto death.'”
So it has been found, and I think even the great Chalmers himself confessed that for years and years before he knew the Lord, he preached nothing but morality and precepts. But he never found a drunkard reclaimed by showing him merely the evils of drunkenness. Nor did he find a swearer stop his swearing because he told him the heinousness of the sin.
It was not until he began to preach the love of Jesus, in His great heart of mercy—it was not until he preached the Gospel as it was in Christ, in some of its clearness, fullness, and power, and the doctrine that, ‘by grace ye are saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,’ that he ever met with success. But when he did preach salvation by faith, by shoals the drunkards came from their cups, and swearers refrained their lips from evil speaking, thieves became honest men, and unrighteous and ungodly persons bowed to the sceptre of Jesus.”

It has come to my attention that I have been way too quiet in this space for way too long. Even though I rarely have words of my own that I think are important enough to share, I am constantly running across quotes that I would like to share with others. Here is the first in a series that I’ll call “Quotes.”

LINK TO THE SERMON WHERE THIS QUOTE IS FOUND

LINK TO MR. SPURGEON’S SERMONS

God’s blessings…

Chris Reimers

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