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Christ-the only way...

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler Eiland) — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:45:00 +0000

Christ-centered Hip-Hop...

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Christ-centered comfort...

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler Eiland) — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:10:00 +0000

Question 1: What is your only comfort in life and death?

Answer: That I, with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who with his precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation, wherefore by his Holy Spirit he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready, to live unto him.

Christ Our Mediator

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler Eiland) — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:00 +0000

I just finished reading (several times) C.J. Mahaney's little book entitled "Christ our Mediator". Its an incredible book that is basically a sermon modified and put in book form. Here are a few snippets from the book for your own edification:

"R.C. Sproul wrote that the most perplexing theological question is not why there's suffering in this world, but why God tolerates us in our sinfulness."

"Lest I forget Gethsemane

Lest I forget Thine agony;

Lest I forget Thy love for me,

Lead me to Calvary"

-Jennie Hussey

"We never move on from the cross, only into a more profound understanding of the cross."-David Prior

"Abide hard by the cross and search the mystery of His wounds."-C.H. Spurgeon

"The subject of the cross, Spurgeon once said, 'is worthy of an angel's tongue. And this also is true: It needs Christ himself completely to expound it.'"

"The debt was so great, that while man alone owed it, only God could pay it."-Anselm

"The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us."-R.C. Sproul

"Divine love triumphed over divine wrath by divine self-sacrifice."-John Stott

"Oh help me understand it,

Help me to take it in,

What it meant to Thee, the Holy One,

To Bear away my sin."-Katherine Kelly

"What dominated Jesus' mind was not so much the living of His life but the giving of it."-John Stott

"Twas I that shed that sacred Blood,

I nailed him to the Tree,

I crucified the Christ of God,

I joined the mockery."

-Horatius Bonar

"Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us."-John Stott

"He's alone so that we might never be alone. He cries out to God, 'Why have you forsaken me?' so that you and I will never have to make a similar cry. He was cut off from His Father so that we can boldly say, 'Nothing shall separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.' He's forsaken so that we might be forgiven."-C.J. Mahaney

Is Christianity Cool?

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler Eiland) — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:00 +0000

Have Christians been seduced by cool? Here is a snippet from a great article by Tullian Tchividjian

"Christianity, according to Jesus, is not cool.

There, I said it.

I’ll even go a step further: If what’s fashionable in our society interests you, then true Christianity won’t. It’s that simple.

Think about it. Jesus said some pretty unfashionable stuff. If you want to live, you must die. If you want to find your life, lose it. He talked about self-sacrifice and crosses and suffering and death. He talked about the need to lay down our lives for those who hate us and hurt us. He talked about serving, not being served; seeking last place, not first. He talked of gouging out your eye and cutting off your hand if they cause you to sin.

He was making the profound point that daily Christian living means daily Christian dying — dying to our fascination with the values of this world and living for something infinitely larger than whatever happens to be in vogue at the moment." If you want to read the rest, then go here.

Resolved Conference '08'...If only I could afford a plane ticked to Cali...

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler Eiland) — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:20:00 +0000

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Come Weary Saints

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler Eiland) — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:02:00 +0000

Sovereign Grace Music just released "Come Weary Saints". You can download a free song from the album here.

What a mine of daily comfort...

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler Eiland) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:12:00 +0000

"If we would look rightly to Jesus—we must look daily to His life of intercession in heaven, as our principal provision of strength and help.

We surely feel that we need Almighty help every day we live. Even when started in the narrow way of life, with pardon, grace, and a new heart—we soon find that, left to ourselves, we would never get safely to our heavenly home. Every returning morning brings with it so much to be done and borne and suffered—that we are often tempted to despair. So weak and treacherous are our hearts, so busy the devil, so persecuting and ensnaring the world; and such poor, weak creatures are we—that we need Almighty help! What are we to do? Where are we to look?

The great Scriptural remedy for all who feel such helplessness as I have faintly described, is to look upward to Christ in heaven, and to keep steadily before our eyes, His intercession at the right hand of God. We must learn to look UPWARD, away from ourselves and our weakness—and upward to Christ in heaven. We must try to realize daily that Jesus not only died for us and rose again, but that He also lives as our Advocate and Intercessor in heaven for us.

This, surely, was the mind of Paul, when he said, "He is able also to save to the uttermost, those who come unto God by Him—seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them." (Heb. 7:25).

Now I venture boldly to express a doubt whether modern Christians "look to Jesus" in this point of view—and make as much as they ought of His life of intercession. It is too often a dropped link in our present-day Christianity. We are apt to think only of the atoning DEATH and the precious blood, and to forget the LIFE and priestly office of our great Redeemer! It ought not to be so. We miss much by this forgetfulness of the whole truth as it is in Jesus.

What a mine of daily comfort there is in the thought—that we have an Advocate with the Father, who never slumbers or sleeps, whose eye is always upon us, who is continually pleading our cause and obtaining fresh supplies of grace for us, who watches over us in every company and place; and never forgets us, though we, in going to and fro, and doing our daily business, cannot always think of Him.

We have a great High Priest in heaven, who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and who bids us pour out our hearts before Him, and come to Him for grace to help in time of need. "

-J.C. Ryle, "Looking Unto Jesus"

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