Author Archives: Rev. Dr. David Bissett

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About Rev. Dr. David Bissett

I pastor a church in upstate NY. I'm happily married and the father of seven kids. It's fun, really! Leave me some feedback...

Tozer: Evangelicals are too Worldly

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I just spotted this quote online, and do not know its date. It is at least a few decades old — but, sadly, very timely.

“Evangelical Christianity is now tragically below the New Testament standard. Worldliness is an accepted part of our way of life. Our religious mood is social instead of spiritual. We have lost the art of worship. We are not producing saints. Our models are successful business men, celebrated athletes and theatrical personalities. We carry on our religious activities after the methods of the modern advertiser. Our literature is shallow and our hymnody borders on sacrilege. And scarcely anyone appears to care.”
-A.W. Tozer

May it spur us to prayer, and to pursue a greater personal zeal for holiness.
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Manton: A Christian’s New Heart

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Puritan pastor Thomas Manton reminds us that at conversion a Christian is given a new heart designed to battle sin, and grow in Christ-like-ness….

“There is a form of grace introduced into the soul, that suits with every point of the law. The heart is framed to resist every sin, to observe all that God hath commanded. A new born infant has all the parts of a man, though not the strength and bulk; so every Christian in regeneration. Men may be born without hands or feet, but the new creature never comes out maimed or imperfect. It is small and weak at first, but it grows and gathers strength.”

— sermon on Psalm 119:6

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