Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness

The Heart of Repentance – JI Packer

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self’s place.

– JI Packer –

No Hope for Revival? – Lester Roloff

I see no hope for a revival among God´s people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?

– Lester Roloff –

Saved from Hell – Robert Murray McCheyne

Most of God’s people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

– Robert Murray McCheyne –

Perfect Love – Hugh Binning

Perfect love casts out the fear of hell, but perfect love brings in the fear of sin: “Ye that love the Lord, hate evil” Psalm 97:10; and if you hate it, you will fear it, in this state of infirmity and weakness wherein we are.

– Hugh Binning –
from Christian Love, 1627-1653

Joy is Found in Self-Abandonment – Elisabeth Elliot

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. “If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,” Jesus said, “he will find his true self.”

– Elisabeth Elliot –

God Did Not Love Us For Our Goodness – John Cotton

It may be that we are sinful; but God did not love us for our goodness, neither will He cast us off for our wickedness. Yet this is no encouragement to licentiousness, for God knows how to put us to anguishes and straits and crosses, and yet to reserve everlasting life for us.
– John Cotton –
1585 – 1652 AD