Gospel Reformation Network

The beginning of true nobility comes when a man ceases to be interested in the judgment of men and becomes interested in the judgment of God.
-Gresham Machen

Union with Christ is really the central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation not only in its application but also in its once-for-all accomplishment in the finished work of Christ.
-John Murray

"How do we push through our natural fear to a supernatural love for the stranger? By remembering." ~ Pastor Jim McCarthy in "Abrahamic Hospitality"

Abrahamic Hospitality | Gospel Reformation Network What does a life lived between Jesus’ resurrection and return in the sure and certain hope of our own resurrections look like? Matthew describes two emotions that characterized the reaction of the two Marys in our text.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
-R.C. Sproul

God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
-C.S. Lewis

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
-John Calvin

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
-Robert Murray McCheyne

Was His head crowned with thorns,
and do we think to be crowned with roses?
It is good to be like Christ, though it be by sufferings.
-Thomas Watson

For every truth there is a
corresponding falsehood.
A Christian is known not only by
what he believes or affirms,
but also by what he rejects and denies.
-R.C. Sproul

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
-John Calvin

When we are in the house of God, we are in a special manner before God and in His presence, there where He has promised to meet His people, where His eye is upon us and ours ought to be unto Him.
-Matthew Henry

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
-Augustine

"Legalism is lethal. But lovingly wooing someone to the means of grace is not legalism." ~ Pastor Wilson Van Hooser, GRN General Council Member

Do We Desire to Be with God? | Gospel Reformation Network Legalism is lethal. But lovingly wooing someone to the means of grace is not legalism.

If we are in Christ while we live,
we shall go to Christ when we die.
-Thomas Watson

"The commitment of the GRN is to see PCA churches engaged in intentional evangelism and personal discipleship that men, women, boys, and girls would know Christ and grow in Christ all their days. May that be our pursuit." ~ Pastor Clif Daniell, GRN General Council

Intentional Evangelism & Personal Discipleship | Gospel Reformation Network The commitment of the GRN is to see PCA churches engaged in intentional evangelism and personal discipleship that men, women, boys, and girls would know Christ and grow in Christ all their days.

We ought never to regard unity so much that we would or should forsake God’s Word for her sake.
-Hugh Latimer

Resolved, after afflictions, to inquire, what I am the better for them, and what I might have got by them.
-Jonathan Edwards

The visible church is where you will find Christ’s kingdom on earth, and to disregard the kingdom is to disregard its King.
-Michael Horton

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to pe*****te to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
-David Brainerd

Doctrine is only the drawing of the bow; application is hitting the mark.
-Thomas Manton

Resolved, to study the Scriptures
so steadily, constantly, and frequently,
as that, I may find and plainly perceive myself
to grow in the knowledge of the same.
-Jonathan Edwards

Man’s happiness was never meant to be determined by his circumstances, and that is the fatal blunder that we all tend to make… Man’s happiness depends on one thing only – and that is his relationship to God! We cannot get it anywhere else.
-Martyn Lloyd-Jones

And when, before the throne,
I stand in Him complete,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
My lips shall still repeat.

Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

-Elvina Hall, 1865

Let thanksgiving be the habit of your life.
- Elisabeth Elliot

Nothing Satan offers is free of his curse.
His rewards are as contaminated as he is.
They are poison to the souls of men.
- William Gurnall

Two things destroy the peace
and tranquility of our lives;
our bewailing past disappointments,
or fearing future ones.
-John Flavel

Many would admit Christ to be their advocate
to plead for them, but not their king
to rule over them.
- Thomas Watson

Make Christ your music and your song;
for complaining and feeling of want
does often swallow up your praises,
Borrow joy and comfort from the comforter.
-Samuel Rutherford

The way of blessing is the way of Jesus.
Live your life in Jesus, for Jesus, following Jesus. That’s the best, blessed, most delightful way to live.
- Kevin DeYoung

Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to the cross I cling; naked, come to thee for dress; helpless, look to thee for grace; foul, I to the fountain fly;
wash me, Savior, or I die.
- Augustus Toplady