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And I find that Darwin’s curious notion that purposeless particles through purposeless processes can produce purposeful people is just too much to swallow—especially if one has any sense of science and applies it with honesty.

- Darwin’s Undertaker, “Being an atheist is really scary. … It was hard to sleep at night.” Remembering Dr. Richard Lumsden

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bobafettuccine:

Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ and Nyan Cat played on piano simultaneously

In which two negatives result in a positive.

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That was beautiful.

*CONFLICTION* 

wow

Hnnnnnnnn!?

(via watermelonwings)

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No one has ever yet discovered the words Jesus ought to have said or [that] the Deity ought to have done. Nothing He does falls short—in fact, He is always surprising you and taking your breath away because He is better than you can imagine. Why? They are the surprises of perfection.

“He combined virtues never seen together: tenderness without weakness, strength without harshness, humility without the slightest lack of confidence, holiness and unbending convictions without the slightest lack of approachability, power without insensitivity, passion without prejudice, the harshest judgment on the self-satisfied yet the most winsome kindness to the broken and the marginal, never inconsistent, never a false step, never a jarring note.”

- Tim Keller, Who Is This Jesus?

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Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves… What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

- G. K. Chesterton

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We have said above that He might possibly have undergone the unreal mockeries of an imaginary birth and infancy. But answer me at once, you that murder truth: Was not God really crucified? And, having been really crucified, did He not really die? And, having indeed really died, did He not really rise again? [Then] Falsely did Paul “determine to know nothing amongst us but Jesus and him crucified” [1 Cor. 2:2]; falsely has he impressed upon us that He was buried; falsely inculcated that He rose again. False, therefore, is our faith also. And all that we hope for from Christ will be a phantom.

- Tertullian, On the Flesh of Christ (Chapter 5)

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And so we see that the glorious truth we have been trying to look at together is just this, that this infinite, absolute, sublime, transcendent, glorious, majestic, mighty, everlasting being who is Spirit, who is truth, who dwells in light no one can approach, this God has been graciously pleased that you and I should know Him, that we should talk to Him and that we should worship Him.

- Martin Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible
Source: amzn.com

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When I ponder the cross I see that I don’t love because I don’t yet understand how much I have been loved. So I look to the cross again. And again.

- Tim Challies
Source: challies.com

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Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

- Psalm 127:1 (ESV)
Source: esvbible.org

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One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it is from this neglect that all our other maladies spring forth. The lost world is not so much gospel hardened as it is gospel ignorant because many of those who proclaim the gospel are also ignorant of its most basic truths. The essential themes that make up the very core of the gospel—the justice of God, the radical depravity of man, the blood atonement, the nature of true conversion, and the biblical basis of assurance—are absent from too many pulpits. Churches reduce the gospel message to a few creedal statements, teach that conversion is a mere human decision, and pronounce assurance of salvation over anyone who prays the sinner’s prayer.

- Paul Washer, The Gospel’s Power and Message, via Tim Challies
Source: challies.com

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But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

- 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 (ESV)
Source: esvbible.org

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Come, my soul, thy suit prepare:
Jesus loves to answer prayer;
He Himself has bid thee pray,
Therefore will not say thee nay;
Therefore will not say thee nay.

Thou art coming to a King,
Large petitions with thee bring;
For His grace and power are such,
None can ever ask too much;
None can ever ask too much.

With my burden I begin:
Lord, remove this load of sin;
Let Thy blood, for sinners spilt,
Set my conscience free from guilt;
Set my conscience free from guilt.

Lord, I come to Thee for rest,
Take possession of my breast;
There Thy blood bought right maintain,
And without a rival reign;
And without a rival reign.

As the image in the glass
Answers the beholder’s face;
Thus unto my heart appear,
Print Thine own resemblance there;
Print Thine own resemblance there.

While I am a pilgrim here,
Let Thy love my spirit cheer;
As my Guide, my Guard, my Friend,
Lead me to my journey’s end;
Lead me to my journey’s end.

Show me what I have to do,
Every hour my strength renew:
Let me live a life of faith,
Let me die Thy people’s death;
Let me die Thy people’s death.

- John Newton, Thou Art Coming to a King
Source: desiringgod.org

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It’s one of the supreme ironies of our culture that we’re expected to be deliriously excited about worldly trifles and passing fads, but we’re generally discouraged from taking serious things seriously. Above all, serious devotion to God is generally seen as a sign of alarming imbalance. An earnest worshiper of God may even be regarded by society as a deranged person—especially if he declares his faith.

- Phil Johnson, Pyromaniacs
Source: teampyro.blogspot.ca

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An all-out, unreserved, nothing-held-back commitment to the pursuit of holiness may be exhausting, but it will not be oppressive if it is grounded in grace. But to be grounded in grace, it must be continually referred back to the gospel. So don’t just preach the gospel to yourself every day merely to experience the cleansing of your conscience. You certainly need to do so for that reason. But as you do so, reaffirm, as a response of love and gratitude to God, your commitment to Him. And do so in reliance on His Spirit that by His grace He will enable you to carry out your commitment.

- Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace
Source: challies.com

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If you are effectively stopped by an internal dialogue that insists the need to be nice trumps all other goods or needs, perhaps it is time to seek afresh, resist that voice, break the hold of bad ideas, and step out in faith and obedience and do or say what is needed.

- Stuart McAllister
Source: rzim.org

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The voice that spells forgiveness will say: “You may go; you have been let off the penalty which your sin deserves.” But the verdict which means acceptance [sc. justification] will say: “You may come; you are welcome to all my love and my presence.

- Sir Marcus Loane

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