Entries Tagged as ‘D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’

August 1, 2009

“The most staggering thing in the universe” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Test your view of the Cross. Where does this statement about ‘declaring’ His righteousness and so on come into your thinking? Is it something that you just skip over and say: ‘Well, I don’t know what that means. All I know is, that God is love and that He forgives.’ But you should know the [...]

August 1, 2009

“The Cross is the vindication of God” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The Cross does not merely tell us that God forgives, it tells us that that is God’s way of making forgiveness possible. It is the way in which we understand how God forgives. I will go further: How can God forgive and still remain God? –that is the question. The Cross is the vindication of [...]

August 1, 2009

“The great public act of God” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross on Calvary was not an accident; it was God’s work. It was God who ’set Him forth’ there. How often is the whole glory of the Cross missed when men sentimentalize it away and say, ‘Ah, He was too good for the world, He was [...]

December 11, 2008

“Talk to people about the Lord Jesus Christ” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“We are meant to talk to people about the Lord Jesus Christ and to tell them He is the Son of God and that He has come into this world in order to save men and women… We are meant to tell men exactly why the world is as it is; we are meant to [...]

October 21, 2008

“Preach to yourself” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them, but they start talking to you, they bring back [...]

October 21, 2008

“The ultimate cause of all spiritual depression” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The ultimate cause of all spiritual depression is unbelief. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.”
–D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Its Cure (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965/2002), 20.