Matt Redman S.W.I.M. Quote
March 1, 2013 at 9:45 am | Posted in Quotes, Uncategorized | 2 CommentsTags: Biblical swimming, Christ alone, Ephesians 2, Matt Redman, Matt Redman lyrics, Psalm 59, swimming quotes, You Alone Can Rescue
Who, oh Lord, could save themselves,
Their own soul could heal?
Our shame was deeper than the sea
Your grace is deeper still.
Matt Redman, “You Alone Can Rescue”
But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Psalm 59:16
And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Ephesians 2:1-5
Thomas Watson Says S.W.I.M. by Faith
September 17, 2012 at 9:08 am | Posted in Quotes | Leave a commentTags: Deuteronomy 6, faith, faith and reason, Galatians 4, Hebrews 11, Puritan quotes, swim quotes, the Trinity, Thomas Watson, Thomas Watson quotes
Where reason cannot wade there faith may swim.
Thomas Watson, concerning the doctrine of the Trinity
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy 6:4
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians 4:6
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
A Confident S.W.I.M. with John Flavel
August 27, 2012 at 11:34 am | Posted in Quotes | Leave a commentTags: Ephesians 4, Jesus Christ, John Flavel, John Flavel quotes, Puritan quotes, quotes about swimming, swimming quotes
Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Ephesians 4:14-16 (emphasis added)
G. Campbell Morgan Wasn’t Too Proud to S.W.I.M.
July 30, 2012 at 9:29 am | Posted in Quotes | 1 CommentTags: Deuteronomy 8, G. Campbell Morgan, G. Campbell Morgan quotes, God's purposes, humility, pride, Proverbs 16, sanctification, swimming quotes
Pride is hated alike by God and man. Then, let us read once again. “He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna.” God’s purpose is to produce the character which is the opposite of pride. All God’s methods tend toward humbling. His deliverance only comes to a man in extremis. It is when the strong and self-contained swimmer is about to sink for the third time that the mightier swimmer has the chance to save him.
G. Campbell Morgan, “Thou Shalt Remember”
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy 8:3
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy 8:16
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
Short S.W.I.M. with D.L. Moody
June 27, 2012 at 9:33 am | Posted in Quotes | Leave a commentTags: clinging faith, D.L. Moody, D.L. Moody quotes, desperate faith, faith, lifeboats, quotes about swimming, resting faith, swimming quotes
There are three kinds of faith in Christ: 1. Struggling faith, like a man in
deep water desperately swimming. 2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the
side of a boat. 3. Resting faith, like a man safely within the boat (and able
to reach out with a hand to help someone else get in).
D.L. Moody
D.L. Moody S.W.I.M. Quote
June 4, 2012 at 9:47 am | Posted in Quotes | Leave a commentTags: belief, Belief in Jesus, D.L. Moody, D.L. Moody quotes, Dwight L. Moody, faith alone, quotes about swimming, Salvation, swim quotes
Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man’s going round the world on
his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming
its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we
do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.
D.L. Moody
Charles Spurgeon Liked to S.W.I.M. Poetically
March 21, 2012 at 10:09 am | Posted in Quotes | 1 CommentTags: Biblical swimming, blood of Jesus, Charles H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon quotes, Isaiah 41, Jesus Christ, swimming, swimming in the Bible
All my soul was dry and dead
Till I learned that Jesus bled;
Bled and suffered in my place,
Bearing sin in matchless grace.
Then a drop of heavenly love
Fell upon me from above,
And by secret, mystic art
Reached the center of my heart.
Glad the story I recount,
How that drop became a fount,
Bubbled up a living well,
Made my heart begin to swell.
All within my soul was praise,
Praise increasing all my days;
Praise which could not silent be:
Floods were struggling to be free.
More and more the waters grew,
Open wide the flood-gates flew,
Leaping forth in streams of song
Flowed my happy life along.
Lo! A river clear and sweet
Laved my glad, obedient feet!
Soon it rose up to my knees,
And I praised and prayed with ease.
Now my soul in praises swims,
Bathes in songs and psalms and hymns,
Plunges down into the deeps,
All her powers in worship steeps.
Hallelujah! O my Lord,
Torrents from my soul are poured.
I am carried clean away,
Praising, praising all the day.
In an ocean of delight,
Praising God with all my might,
Self is drowned. So let it be:
Only Christ remains to me.
Charles H. Spurgeon (believed to be the last poem he wrote before he died, based on Isaiah 41:18)
Spurgeon Exhorts You To S.W.I.M. NOW
September 20, 2011 at 9:49 am | Posted in Quotes | 2 CommentsTags: Biblical swimming, Charles Spurgeon, Jesus Christ, procrastination, Salvation, Spurgeon Quotes, swimming quotes
I want you to remember, too, that you are called to come now, at once. You may not be bidden to come tomorrow for several reasons: you may not be alive, or there may be no earnest person near to invite you. Can there be a better day today? You have always said “Tomorrow,” yet where are you now? Not a bit forwarder some of you than you were ten years ago. Do you recollect that sermon when you were made to tremble so, and you said, “Please God, if I get out of this, I will seek His face,” but you postponed it, and are you any forwarder now? You remember the story of the countryman who would not cross the river just yet, but sat down and said he would wait until all the water had gone by. He waited long in vain, and might have waited forever, for rivers are always flowing. You too are waiting till a more convenient season shall come, and all the difficulties have gone by. Be quit of such supreme folly. There will always be difficulty, the river will always flow. O man, be wise, plunge into it and swim across. Now is the accepted time, and now is the day of salvation. Oh that you would believe in Jesus Christ! May His Spirit lead you to do so now.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “The Two ‘Comes,’” The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, volume 23
R.C. Sproul Discusses the Times in which We S.W.I.M.
May 20, 2011 at 9:02 am | Posted in Quotes | 1 CommentTags: Biblical swimming, Jesus Christ, preceptive will of God, quotes about swimming, R.C. Sproul, R.C. Sproul quotes, swim quotes
The Christian solution to the problem of sin is a radical departure from what other religions provide, for it is centered in the Person and work of Jesus Christ. Through His perfect sacrifice, which has the efficacy of blotting out believers’ sins, we have become righteous in God’s eyes. However, that righteousness does not give us the license to do as we please. We must still seek to do God’s preceptive will, especially as we swim through the perilous waters of the moral, ethical, and social dilemmas of our age.
R.C. Sproul, “Can I Know God’s Will?”
My Blog Gets a Shout-Out from Todd Friel
October 13, 2010 at 10:20 am | Posted in Quotes | 2 CommentsTags: Biblical Parenting, deep end quotes, Gospel-centered parenting, Todd Friel, Todd Friel quotes, what to buy for kids, Wretched, Wretched TV
… teach those little monsters [referring to children] about… intimacy – that’s right, we’re going to dive into the deep end!
Todd Friel, on the TV program, “Wretched”
To be honest, though, I don’t remember ever doing a post on teaching intimacy to children – although I do have some posts on Biblical parenting here, and some posts on what to be, do, and buy for your kids here, here, and here. Todd’s point was that all teaching in the family household concerning intimacy should be Gospel-centered, and I certainly wouldn’t argue with that.
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