Just A Few Thoughts

Over the past couple weeks, I have been filling my iPod with sermons from an annual conference called RESOLVED. This conference is unique because it was created only a couple years ago and yet it already has the habit of warranting a waiting list, only a few months after sign-ups are posted. RESOLVED is a conference that focuses on a specific topic for one weekend, and brings in several talented speakers (most of whom are pastors) to prepare and deliver a sermon centered around the topic. Last year, I had the privilege of attending RESOLVED, and my life has been blessed by it ever since. I miss it so and since the conference was just held last weekend, I began downloading some of the sermons from the past couple years, and writing down some of the excerpts of a few sermons that really stuck out to me. Here are some of my favorites!

RESOLVED 2007

"The Gospel is unrivaled because Jesus Christ is unrivaled. Scripture is what it is because Christ is who He is." -Steve Lawson

"No one will ever live higher than their view of God and their view of Jesus Christ. Those with a lofty, transcendednt view of Christ breathe heaven's air." -Steve Lawson (oh that this would be my prayer as well!)

RESOLVED 2008

"We were made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person and heaven is the place."
-Randy Alcorn

"Do closeness, affection, and generosity describe your relationship to God? The more you are aware of the initiative of God, the more you will be amazed by the grace of God." -C.J. Mahaney

"Pleasure in God produces pain in not having God. One must first have experienced the beauty of having God in order to experience the pain in not having Him. Hell cannot produce satisfaction in God, so it cannot produce remorse in not having God, and so it cannot produce Gospel repentance, and so it cannot save, and so it is insufficient." -John Piper

"Remember what you have is a gift from God and the more you have, the more you are in debt to him. People should not be proud about that which makes them indebted either. C.H. Spurgeoun says 'Remeber your origins, and then contemplate God's grace (in your life)'."
-C.J. Mahaney

RESOLVED 2009

"Labor to know your own frame and temper. What associates in your heart Satan has!"
-John Owen

"What is the good that everything is designed to work together to do?" -C.J. Mahaney

"Sin is irrational. If you were rational, you wouldn't sin!" -John Piper


O.k. So I got a little carried away. Forgive me! I encourage you to check out more of these gifted mens' sermons, and see what application the Lord places on your own heart! To download these sermons (for free), go to http://www.resolved.org/ to make an account! Blessings, Emily

Habakkuk 2:14