#j. gresham machen

[walkingthroughthisworld]

"The belief of the disciples in the resurrection, according to the New Testament, was due simply to the fact of the resurrection. Those disciples came to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead for the simple reason that Jesus had risen from the dead. He had risen from the dead; and they had not only seen his tomb. empty but had seen him alive after his death on the cross."

J. Gresham Machen

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"What the Holy Spirit does in the new birth is not to make a man a Christian regardless of the evidence, but on the contrary to clear away the mists from his eyes and enable him to attend to the evidence." - J. Gresham Machen

[craigtowens]

‘Christ died’—that is history; ‘Christ died for our sins’—that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

J. Gresham Machen

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"What the Holy Spirit does in the new birth is not to make a man a Christian regardless of the evidence, but on the contrary to clear away the mists from his eyes and enable him to attend to the evidence." - J. Gresham Machen

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it." - J. Gresham Machen

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The growth of ignorance in the Church is in the logical and inevitable result of the false notion that Christianity is a lifestyle and not also a doctrine.

J. Gresham Machen

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Preaching: From God or from Man?

by J. Gresham Machen | Various opinions are prevalent today as to what the business of the preacher is. The preacher is sometimes thought to be merely a sort of convenient middleman who presents a number of worthy causes, each in its proper turn, to that picked audience of charitable and public-spirited citizens that meets on Sunday mornings in church. More commonly still he...

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Time has no meaning for Him, save in connection with the creatures that He has made. He created time when He created finite creatures. He Himself is beyond time… To God Himself all things are equally present. There is no such thing as “before” or “after” to Him.

J. Gresham Machen