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📖 Presbyterian (OPC) | Husband | 4 covenant children | Tweeting primarily about Family Worship, Evangelism, and Puritans - @PuritanMines

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James Dorman IV

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Never read these words of our Lord Jesus the same again 👇 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life." John 10:27-28 Puritan John Trapp: It is easy to observe in [these verses] those five links of that golden chain of God’s…

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At age 20 I was converted through, what the Puritans called, “the bare reading of Scripture in private.” A minister who evangelized the inmates gave me a Study Bible. I met him once and never saw him again. 10 years later, still thankful everyday for God’s sovereign grace!

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Every Christian needs to read what Martyn Lloyd-Jones says here 👇🏻

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1 year

One day our children will say, ‘Can you play with me?’, for the last time.

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James Dorman IV

3 years

One cannot complain that the “gate is narrow” who stands amazed that the gate is 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯.

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James Dorman IV

4 years

The Gospel is NOT a revelation of how God has suddenly lowered His standards in order to save sinners. Rather the Gospel is a revelation of how God saves sinners without bending His righteous standards.

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James Dorman IV

4 years

My older brother was conceived in an affair my mother was having with a married man. My dad was an “unfit” father and addict. Now serving 25 to life sentence in CA My younger sister was conceived in rape. 3 “unwanted” pregnancies ☑️ 0 Abortions 🚫 THANK God for my mom.

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Brothers and sisters, please pray for my dad. Specifically that he may come to saving faith in Jesus Christ.

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James Dorman IV

1 year

Twitter is cool but have you tried your church’s mid-week prayer meeting?

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James Dorman IV

1 year

I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, but by the grace of God, I am not what I once was. —John Newton

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James Dorman IV

4 months

Hell can’t be made attractive, so the devil makes attractive the road that leads there. —Basil the Great (329-379)

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James Dorman IV

2 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this, from Martyn Lloyd-Jones, but it’s probably you and it’s definitely me. 👇🏻

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James Dorman IV

3 years

A man once came up to Robert M. M’Cheyne after the sermon & said he had finally obtained peace. M’Cheyne asked how? The man said: “All the time I have been trying to enter by the saint’s door, but while you were preaching, I saw my mistake and entered in at the sinners door.”

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James Dorman IV

3 years

My dad has been incarcerated for over 26 years now. Remember him in your prayers. Specifically that God would make known to him His rich, free & abundant grace in Jesus Christ.

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James Dorman IV

1 year

This just happened in our children’s Sunday school class: Teacher: Children, what other lies does Satan still tell us today? Owen (7 years old): That we can be saved by the covenant of works!

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James Dorman IV

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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. —JI Packer, Knowing God Pg. 32

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James Dorman IV

3 years

It’s now been over a decade since God, by his grace, caused me to say: “Here is a poor burdened sinner. I come from the City of Destruction, but am going to Mount Zion, that I may be delivered from the Wrath to come…” Thankful for my faithful, & never-enough-praised Savior.

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James Dorman IV

3 years

Spurgeon once invited a man over for dinner who was boasting of "sinless perfection". During dinner he splashed the man's face w/ water. The man was livid! Spurgeon then said: “Ah, you see, the old man is not dead. He simply fainted & could be revived with a glass of water!"

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James Dorman IV

3 years

Evangelizing in downtown. Prayers appreciated!

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James Dorman IV

1 year

Most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, Pg. 20

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James Dorman IV

3 years

Right before the Puritan Thomas Hooker died, a close friend said to him: “You are going to receive the reward for all your labors.” Hooker responded: “Brother, I am going to receive 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘺.”

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Tonight we are celebrating: 100 Catechism Questions Memorized and recited! 🥳🎉

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James Dorman IV

7 months

Calvinism is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 incompatible with evangelism. It is just incompatible with very popular, pragmatic and manipulative evangelistic methods.

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James Dorman IV

3 years

When I look at myself I have plenty of reasons to doubt the certainty of my salvation. When I look at Christ I have no valid reason, not even one, to doubt the certainty of my salvation.

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James Dorman IV

2 years

‘I am not fit to take Communion, I really do not feel that I am good enough.’ The answer to them is this: ‘You will never be good enough.’ The Lord’s Supper is not for people who are good enough; it is for people who are not ‘under the law’ but ‘under grace.’

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James Dorman IV

2 years

The weakest Christian is as much justified, as much pardoned, as much adopted, and as much united to Christ as the strongest. —Puritan Thomas Brooks, Works 2:338

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Be killing porn, or porn will be killing you.

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “A child of God cannot be happy in sin.” 👇🏻

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James Dorman IV

3 years

A man once came up to Robert M. M’Cheyne after the sermon & said he had finally obtained peace. M’Cheyne asked how? The man said: “All the time I have been trying to enter by the saint’s door, but while you were preaching, I saw my mistake and entered in at the sinners door.”

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James Dorman IV

3 years

What is the Gospel?

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James Dorman IV

3 years

‘I am not fit to take Communion, I really do not feel that I am good enough.’ The answer to them is this: ‘You will never be good enough.’ The Lord’s Supper is not for people who are good enough; it is for people who are not ‘under the law’ but ‘under grace.’ —DM Lloyd-Jones

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Do yourself a favor and buy one of these.

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James Dorman IV

1 year

After about 2 years, I’ve finally finished Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ sermons on Romans. I purchased this set from @BannerofTruth in Dec. 2020 & began reading them shortly after. By far, my favorite volumes were 4 (on Romans 5) & 8 (on Romans 8:17-39). At a minimum, I recommend these!

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Last year the Lord brought my old friend Zach under deep conviction of sin. He then remained stuck there for a time worried he wasn’t repentant enough to come to Christ. He read Bonar’s book “God’s Way of Peace”, abandoned his futile efforts & came. Today he was baptized.

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James Dorman IV

5 months

The Gospel is not a revelation of how God has suddenly lowered His standard in order to save sinners. Rather, the Gospel is a revelation of how God saves sinners without bending His righteous standard at all.

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James Dorman IV

6 months

Evangelism is not telling people: “Jesus loves you” It is telling people: -Who God is -The eternal consequences of their sin -God’s gracious provision of a complete Savior -God’s invitation/command to repent & believe the Gospel. -God’s willingness to receive them on His terms

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James Dorman IV

6 months

John Bunyan’s advice for killing sin: spend all your strength on the sin you are most inclined to, whatever it may be, because: “If a man has that grace, as to trample upon and mortify his darling sin, he will more easily and more heartily hate and fly the rest.” (Works 2:532)

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James Dorman IV

3 years

The world will let a man go to hell quietly, and never try to stop him. The world will never let a man go to heaven quietly – they will do all they can to turn them back. —JC Ryle

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James Dorman IV

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The law demands perfect righteousness, but the gospel grants it. —Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, 4:453

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James Dorman IV

3 years

“It is harder to 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 people in public when we've 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 for them in private." @DustinBenge

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James Dorman IV

3 years

I remember RC Sproul once said the flower of Calvinism is the TULIP (representing the doctrines of grace), while the flower of Arminianism is the daisy: “He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not...”

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James Dorman IV

5 months

“O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?” is a 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 evidence of grace and holiness than “God, I thank thee I am not as other men.” —Puritan John Owen, Works 6:601

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Faithfully sharing the Gospel + No Visible Results, still = successful evangelism.

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James Dorman IV

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𝘖𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: But I have often relapsed and fallen into the same sin again and again. 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳: If Christ will have us pardon our brother seventy-seven times, can we think he will press us [to do] more than He will be ready to do Himself? —Richard Sibbes, Works 1:231

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James Dorman IV

1 year

Can you not see that the very suggestion that we need to pray to Mary, that she may influence Him, is blasphemous? It is to derogate from His heart of love, from His sympathy, from His understanding, from His nearness to us. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Blessings, Pg. 28

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James Dorman IV

1 year

The business of the Gospel is to bring people to God, and to reconcile them to God. Not to fill churches! Not to have good statistics! But to reconcile men to God —to save them from the wrath to come. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Volume 1, Pg. 338

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1 year

𝘖𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: But I have often relapsed and fallen into the same sin again and again. 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳: If Christ will have us pardon our brother seventy-seven times, can we think he will press us [to do] more than He will be ready to do Himself? —Richard Sibbes, Works 1:231

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James Dorman IV

2 months

If I were to judge a man… I would not judge of him by his open profession, but by his domestic behaviors. What a man is at home, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 he is indeed. —Puritan John Bunyan, Works 2:536

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Heaven is glorious, but Christ is infinitely more glorious. —Puritan Thomas Brooks, Works 3:80

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James Dorman IV

3 years

After sharing the Gospel at the Catholic Charity last week, a man said: “So, your’e making it sound like all of us are sinners headed to hell unless we believe in Jesus Christ? What’re you really trying to tell us? I said: That is 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 what I wanted to tell you.

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James Dorman IV

2 years

To obtain the righteousness of Christ we must abandon our own. —John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Relgion - 1541 Edition, Pg. 353

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James Dorman IV

1 year

God does not love us because Christ died for us. Christ died for us because God loves us. —Sinclair Ferguson

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James Dorman IV

2 years

It’s possible for a Christian to lose their assurance; it is impossible for a Christian to lose their salvation. Once in Christ, 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 in Christ.

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James Dorman IV

6 months

Satan distracts 𝘰𝘶𝘳 prayers, but cannot blemish 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵’𝘴 intercession. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:142

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James Dorman IV

2 years

There is nothing new to say in a pulpit every Sunday; it is always the Gospel. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans 8:447

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James Dorman IV

1 year

How do I know about the love of God? I look at Christ. That is the way to know the love of God. You do not wait for a feeling, or try to conjure up a feeling. You go to the cross and look, & survey it, consider it, meditate upon it and all that was involved. —D. M. Lloyd-Jones

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James Dorman IV

1 year

Christians do not spend their lives walking in and out of the kingdom of God. Let me say this, and it is a daring statement in a sense, yet it is Scriptural: if I fall into sin I am 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 in the kingdom of God. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Fellowship with God, Pg. 142

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1 year

What you need [to overcome spiritual depression] is not to make resolutions to live a better life, to start fasting & sweating & praying. No! You just begin to say: “I rest my faith on Him alone who died for my transgressions to atone.” —M. Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, 35

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James Dorman IV

2 years

The Gospel in its fullness should be constantly in our minds. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans 10.299

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James Dorman IV

7 months

Calvinism destroys evangelism? John G. Paton begs to differ. He brought the gospel to the cannibal infested South Sea islands. His family lived to see the entire island of Aniwa profess Christianity. Prior to all this, he zealously evangelized the cobbled streets of Glasgow!

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James Dorman IV

5 months

A believer will fall into sin and come out better. They will acquire: 1. a renewed sense of forgiveness 2. a renewed hatred for sin 3. a renewed dependency upon Christ for 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 pardon and godliness 4. and a renewed desire for careful watchfulness over self in all occasions

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Sanctification is more a matter of going deeper into the gospel than of getting better through the law. —Michael Horton, Pilgrim Theology, Pg. 318

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James Dorman IV

2 years

How should a Christian react to suffering? Lloyd-Jones said: 1. Do not be surprised. 2. Do not be shaken. 3. Do not question your salvation. 4. Do not question the love of God. 5. Do not grumble or allow a grudge to form against God. #DoctorsOrders (Sermon, Romans 8.14-17)

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James Dorman IV

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When a man says, ‘Because I sinned I have lost it (salvation)’, what he is really saying on the other side is, ‘𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥.’ He is wrong in both respects. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Exposition of Romans, 5.22

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James Dorman IV

3 years

If salvation was 99.9% Christ’s work, and 00.1% our work “...then Christ would not be a Savior, but an instrument of God to make us our own saviors. And to say this is blasphemy.” —Puritan William Perkins, Works 2:171 Praise God today for giving a complete & successful Savior!

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James Dorman IV

5 months

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Stop what you’re doing and buy this.

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James Dorman IV

4 years

What is the Gospel?

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James Dorman IV

2 years

I would rather be a bruised reed in the house of my God, than a tall cedar in the tents of self-righteousness.

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James Dorman IV

5 months

I, being a great sinner, comfort myself in a great Savior. When I look upon myself, I see nothing but weakness and emptiness; but when I look upon Christ, I see nothing but sufficiency and fullness. —Westminster Divine William Gouge (1575-1653), Lives of the Puritans , 3:169

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James Dorman IV

2 years

“The smallest Gospel tract may be the stone in David's sling. In the hands of Christ it may bring down a giant's soul.” —Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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James Dorman IV

2 years

If a man is saved, it is because 𝘎𝘰𝘥 has saved him. But if a man is lost, that is to be attributed to 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 rejection of the gospel and 𝘩𝘪𝘴 rebellion against God’s way of salvation. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Volume 10: Saving Faith, Pg. 2

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James Dorman IV

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They [who deny penal substitutionary atonement] fondly imagine that they magnify the love of God. Actually they are making it very much smaller, and robbing it of its greatest glory. The love of God is so great that He delivered up His Son for us. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Rom 8.394

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James Dorman IV

2 years

There is only one way of salvation - this is the message of the whole Bible - it is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. It is simple faith in Him, nothing else. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans, V. 11, Pg. 33

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James Dorman IV

2 years

…God will not trust us with our own salvation, but it is both purchased and kept by Christ for us… —Puritan Richard Sibbes, Works 1:95

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James Dorman IV

3 years

“My dear friends if your position is going to depend upon what scientists may or may not say, well then I tremble for you.” —D.M Lloyd-Jones

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James Dorman IV

1 year

Let every demon in hell, and Satan himself rise up and try to condemn you. Answer him! They say, ‘The Law demands this; God is holy, here are the demands.’ ‘Quite right,’ you say, ‘but Christ is the end of the Law to me because I believe in Him - 𝘏𝘦 is my righteousness.’

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James Dorman IV

2 months

Your sins may provoke Christ to frown upon you, they may provoke Him to greatly correct you, but they shall 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 provoke Christ to give you a bill of divorce. —Puritan Thomas Brooks, Works 3:70

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Do not simply look at yourself; look at yourself 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘮, because that is where you are. That is how God looks at you. God no longer looks at you in Adam. That is the whole point of the Gospel. Look at yourself always exclusively & entirely in Christ. —DMLJ, Romans 4.280

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James Dorman IV

4 months

To say, My sin is greater than can be forgiven, is to please the devil and thwart God’s design in the work of redemption. Is your disease so great that the physician of souls cannot cure it? —Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 15:36

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3 years

This is so important: “Religion does not consist in doing great things, for which few of us have frequent opportunities, but in doing the 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 of daily occurrence with a cheerful spirit, as to the Lord.” John Newton, Letters

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1 year

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 to yourself instead of 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 to yourself. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression - Its Causes and Cures, Pg. 20

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James Dorman IV

1 year

The man who is not a Christian, a false professor, always boasts of his works. The true Christian never speaks in this way. The attitude of the Christian to himself is, “How little I am doing! How little do I love the Lord!” He is aware of his deficiencies and defects.

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James Dorman IV

10 days

For a woman to destroy the child in the womb is murder. —Puritan Thomas Manton (1620-1677), Works 7:150

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James Dorman IV

3 years

Believer: Your faithful High Priest is not currently compiling a list of your inconsistencies and daily short comings as legitimate reasons to finally ‘cast you out’. Your Advocate ascended into heaven in order to successfully take up your case, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 build one against you.

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James Dorman IV

6 months

Calvinism destroys Evangelism? The Apostle Paul begs to differ. After declaring God's sovereignty in the election & salvation of individuals in Romans 9, he immediately begins Romans 10 with: "Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved."

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Our daughter’s sermon notes from last Lord’s Day.

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James Dorman IV

9 months

You, who have but a 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩, have yet a 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵. —Puritan John Owen, Works 9:29

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James Dorman IV

10 months

There is nothing that is so encouraging to holiness, so stimulating, so uplifting, as to know the 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘺 of my final salvation and glorification. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Exposition of Romans 5:188

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James Dorman IV

3 years

Read this again this morning, had to share: Right before the Puritan Thomas Hooker died, a close friend said to him: “You are going to receive the reward for all your labors.” Hooker responded: “Brother, I am going to receive 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘺.”

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James Dorman IV

1 year

To be 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 a Christian, is to be 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 saved, and that is to be 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺 damned. —Westminster Divine Anthony Burgess (1600-1663), Spiritual Refining, Pg. 268

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James Dorman IV

1 year

I just finished William Gurnall’s ‘The Christian in Complete Armour’. I’m amazed how the author, with Puritan precision, leaves no stone unturned! Buy it, read it, and I dare you to walk away disappointed.

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James Dorman IV

1 year

I'd rather hobble into Heaven, than walk into Hell! —Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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James Dorman IV

3 years

A man who 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 Christ is a man who 𝘩𝘢𝘴 Christ. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans, 4.100)

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James Dorman IV

2 years

“All the wrath of God was poured out upon [Jesus], even to the last drop; so that there is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱 reserved for the elect to feel.” —Puritan John Flavel, Works 1:423

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James Dorman IV

7 months

Let not your 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘯 quench your 𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘯. —Puritan William Bridge, Works 5:20

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Satan will object, ‘thou art a great sinner’; we may answer, ‘Christ is a strong Saviour.’ —Richard Sibbes, Works 1:98

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James Dorman IV

2 years

John Bunyan:

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James Dorman IV

2 years

Be assured of this, that either 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 or 𝘺𝘰𝘶 must bear the full weight both of your sins, and the curse due to them. —Puritan Thomas Goodwin, Works 5:288

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James Dorman IV

3 years

Puritan Thomas Brooks:

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