Centrality of Christ

Oh the fullness of Christ – Hudson Taylor

Oh the fullness of Christ – Hudson Taylor

When we look at ourselves, at the littleness of our love, the bareness of our service, and the small progress we make towards perfection, how soul-refreshing it is to turn away to Him; to plunge afresh in “the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness”; to remember that we are “accepted in the beloved” … “who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” Oh! the fullness of Christ, the fullness of Christ.

– Hudson Taylor –

Vital Union with Christ – JC Ryle

Vital Union with Christ – JC Ryle

We cannot have flowers without roots, or fruit without trees. We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit without vital union with Christ, and a new creation within.

– JC Ryle –
 from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels,1856

God Owns All – Clovis G. Chappell

God Owns All – Clovis G. Chappell

God owns all; He owns me; He owns my home; He owns my children; He owns my property. I have called your attention before to the fact that the modern idea of ownership is pagan. The Christian idea is this: that God is the absolute owner of all things.

– Clovis G. Chappell –

True Godliness – Major Ian Thomas

True Godliness – Major Ian Thomas

True godliness leaves the world convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the only explanation for you, is Jesus Christ to whose eternally unchanging and altogether adequate “I AM!” your heart has learned to say with unshatterable faith, “Thou art!”

– Ian Thomas –