Reformation Day

      
  Some brief reflections from various quotes on this Reformation Day for you.  :)


 

  Preach the Word; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching.  For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

                                                                                          2 Timothy 4:2-4

  "You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."
                                                                   --Martin Luther


  

  See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

                                                                                               Colossians 2:8

 

For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God?

                                                                                                        Galatians 1:10

  Your word is true from the beginning:

           and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

                                                                                             Psalm 119:160

  ' Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized. . . because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though the attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.'


                                                                       --William Wilberforce, Real Christianity

Scripture alone.
    Grace alone.
        Faith alone.
            Christ alone.
    Soli Deo Gloria--
To God alone be the glory.


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  ' 'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus--
just to take Him at His word;
just to rest upon His promise;
just to know 'thus sayth the Lord.'


  Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him--
How I've proved Him o'er and o'er.
Jesus, Jesus; precious Jesus--
Oh for grace to trust Him more.'


                                       --Hymn

 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,

 and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

                                                                                             Proverbs 9:10