Richard Sibbes

Christ’s Glorious Mercy vs. All Our Worst Sins

April 19, 2013 Good Reading
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Richard Sibbes considers the infinite and the finite in his perspective on the sufficiency of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross: “It is no less mercy than glorious mercy that will satisfy us when our conscience is distressed; and if this will not, what will? Let Satan join with conscience to aggravate our sins as much [...]

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On God’s glorious creation and the gospel

January 12, 2013 Devotional Mundane
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“Thy glory o’er creation shines; But in Thy sacred Word, I read in fairer, brighter lines, My bleeding, dying Lord.” – Anne Steele, “Thou Lovely Source of True Delight” “The whole world is a theater of the glory of God. But what is the glory of creation, of the preservation and governing of the world, [...]

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Love that scatters all the miseries of the world

April 13, 2012 Good Reading
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“The love of God in Christ is not in word only; it is love that reaches from everlasting to everlasting, love shewn in choosing, and in glorifying us. In all the miseries of the world, one beam of this loving kindness of the Lord will scatter all, and fill my heart with joy.” – Richard [...]

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The Tender Heart

February 6, 2012 Good Reading
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Thanks to the Westminster Bookstore you can put a Puritan in your pocket! I carried around Sibbes’ The Tender Heart in my pocket today and read this in between loads of laundry and mock tea parties: “When God has given Christ, then comes the Spirit, and works in the heart a gracious acceptance of mercy [...]

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Playdates with the Puritans: the Power of the Gospel

November 20, 2011 Devotional Mundane
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by Gloria Furman This morning I felt like I was picking up the same handful of Cheerios off the kitchen floor over and over again. As soon I swept some up, the baby would drop more from his highchair. I was reminded of a proverb a friend and I modified the other day to suit [...]

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Playdates with the Puritans: Hope in storms and low-tide

November 13, 2011 Devotional Mundane
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by Gloria Furman “Hope, what does it do? When it casts anchor in heaven, it keeps us in all the waves.” – Richard Sibbes, Glorious Freedom I’m so prone to hoping in things that can’t hold me through life’s storms. Sometimes when my husband goes through recurrent, debilitating pain caused by the nerve disease in [...]

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Playdates with the Puritans: Growing in Grace

November 6, 2011 Devotional Mundane
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by Gloria Furman “We’ve been over this five times today.” “That’s it– no more warnings.” “Enough!” Do you have times when you feel like you’ve had “enough?” I sure have. I don’t always know what I’ve had “enough” of, exactly, but I know that I want things to change… stat! My fun-loving daughter Norah ate [...]

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