Can Young Men Serve God ? – JC Ryle Answers!

REMEMBER IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE A YOUNG MAN AND YET TO SERVE GOD. – John Charles Ryle I fear the snares that Satan lays for you on this point. I fear that he will succeed in filling your minds with the vain notion, that to be a true Christian as a youth is impossible. I have seen many carried away by this delusion. I have heard it said, “You are requiring an impossibility in expecting so much Christianity from young people. Youth is no time for seriousness. Our desires are... Read More

Those Very Sins – John Owen

That even those very sins, that Satan paints, and puts new names and colours upon, cost the best blood, the noblest blood, the life-blood, the heart-blood of the Lord Jesus. That Christ should come from the eternal bosom of his Father to a region of sorrow and death; that God should be manifested in the flesh, the Creator made a creature; that he that was clothed with glory should be wrapped with rags of flesh; he that filled heaven and earth with his glory should be cradled in... Read More

How to Know the True God

BEING NEAR TO GOD If you had every pleasure and everything you could ever wish for in this life but did not know God, then you are the sorriest being in the universe (this is the case with many); however, if you had nothing at all, and lived on the streets with only clothes and food for the day, but you knew God intimately (as it was with the rich man and Lazarus) then you are the most fortunate and blessed creature in the universe. It is better to be near to God with nothing... Read More