Category Archives: Perseverance
“Scatter seed, believe, and wait” by Charles Bridges
“Our plain and cheering duty is therefore to go forward — to scatter the seed, to believe and to wait. Yet must there be expectancy as well as patience. The warrant of success is assured, not only as regards an … Continue reading
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“Be strong in the Lord” by Richard Sibbes
“The victory lies not with us, but with Christ, who has taken on Him both to conquer for us and to conquer in us. The victory lies neither in our own strength to get it, nor in our enemies’ strength … Continue reading
“I need you” by Paul David Tripp
“On the cross and in the resurrection, Christ broke the power of sin over us (Rom. 6:1-14), but the presence of sin remains. Sin is being eradicated within us, and this process will continue until we are sin-free. But while … Continue reading
“The devil’s great enemy” by Martin Luther
“It is a great and special blessing when people in a marriage endure well. They are the devil’s great enemy.” –Martin Luther, Off the Record With Martin Luther: An Original Translation of the Table Talks, trans. and ed. Charles Daudert (Kalamazoo, … Continue reading
“Perseverance is a miracle” by G.C. Berkouwer
“Perseverance is a continuing miracle of God’s grace.” –G. C. Berkouwer, Studies in Dogmatics: Faith and Perservance (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1958), 147.
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“Written with Paul’s own blood” by John Calvin
“The chief point on which it turns is to confirm Timothy, both in the faith of the gospel, and in the pure and constant preaching of it. But yet these exhortations derive no small weight from the consideration of the … Continue reading →
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