Book Review: How Sermons Work by David Murray

March 6, 2013

My first review of a book I read entirely on my Kindle. I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing …

More than Conquered

February 23, 2013

One of the most often quoted and most encouraging passages from the letter of Paul to the Roman Christians is …

Book Review: 1984 by George Orwell

February 5, 2013

I’m trying to read one literary classic a year. I took on George Orwell’s 1984 in 2012. Wow. I now …

Book Review: A man after God’s own heart by Jim George

January 28, 2013

There are many reasons for me to like Jim George: 1. He’s a veteran. 2. He’s a runner. 3. He …

Props to Canton, MI Public Library!

January 11, 2013

Props to Canton, MI Public Library!. A short tribute to a local library in my area for actually having a …

Egads! A better deal than Half.com?!

December 3, 2012

Two words: Public Library On Friday, the Dare family hit the Canton Public Library’s used bookstore. I walked out of …

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Paul Dare lives in Westland, MI, works in the telecom industry and worships corporately at Plymouth Baptist Church. He's the husband of one lovely Jennifer Dare, the father of four fun and fully charged children and the recipient of complete forgiveness and perfect righteousness from one Jesus Christ - crucified, risen and coming again.

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“Unacquaintedness with our mercies, our privileges (in union with Christ in the Father’s love),is our sin as well as our trouble. This makes us go heavily, when we might rejoice; and to be weak, where we might be strong in the Lord.”- John Owen

"There is no such thing as "chance", "luck", or "accident" in the Christian journey through this world. All is arranged and appointed by God, and all things are working together for the believer’s good." - J.C. Ryle

"I blog to make the voices in my head go away."
-Doug Wilson

""When I was coming to Christ, I thought I was doing it all myself, and though I sought the Lord earnestly, I had no idea the Lord was seeking me." -Charles Spurgeon

"I simply taught, preached, and wrote God’s Word; otherwise I did nothing...the Word did everything."-Martin Luther

"When I hear Joel Osteen, I don’t hear the gospel. I hear American materialism and shallow self-actualization dressed up like the gospel." -Joel Miller

"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. No man is greater than his prayer life."– Samuel Chadwick

"If we cannot reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility now, we need not doubt that it will be all plain at the last day.-JC Ryle"

"I wonder many times if ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him."-Samuel Rutherford

"The Physician is not evil to the sick person because he tells him of his fever. For the physician is not the cause of the fever; he only points out the fever. Likewise, he who reproves is not ill disposed to wards him who is diseased in soul. For he is not the cause of the transgressions on him. He only reveals the sins that are there" -Clement of Alexandria 2.195

"I think the devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements:
noise, hurry and crowds . Satan is quite aware of the power of silence."-Jim Elliot

"I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him."-Dave Dravecky

"Staying with a congregation through thick and thin helps the church to see that you’re not with them because it’s easy, or because everything goes your way. You’re with them because you love them and you rely on God. You endure for his sake, for the love he has given you for his people."-Mark Dever

"Short prayers are long enough. There were but three words in the petition which Peter gasped out, but they were sufficient for his purpose. Not length but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better." -C.H. Spurgeon

"Satan is an accuser and a deceiver. In both cases his weapons are words, which is why we must overcome him with the word of our testimony.."
-Kevin DeYoung

"You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary"-Jonathan Edwards

"The best expositions are where the listeners haven’t just been informed about the text, but where they have entered into the text, the text has entered into them, and where the text has been set free to do what the text was intended to do." -Peter Mead

"There are two things that I have always looked upon as difficult. The one is, to make the wicked sad; the other is, to make the godly joyful."-Thomas Watson

"Grace conquers us first, and we, by it conquer all else; whether corruptions within us, or temptations from outside of us" - Puritan Richard Sibbes in The Bruised Reed

"But though we ought to reverence the blessed Bible above all other books, yet we may not worship it, but the author of it only."--Increase Mather

"Great sins draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when it is finally revealed to the soul, appears the highest."
--John Bunyan in his autobiography Grace Abounding

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else."-CS Lewis

"The gospel teaches a "new way to be human," which, in reality, is nothing more than returning to the "old way to be human," the way that God had originally ordained before sin. " -Eric Rauch

”But biblical unity must be based on biblical truth, not human intentions. The example of unity we have in Scripture is the Trinity, which in complete agreement on everything! Too often what passes for unity is really compromise. It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.” -Eric Rauch

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