Sunday, The Inwardness of Sin

IN EVERY HUMAN HEART

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? "

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Word of Truth Outweighs the Whole World

"Today, if we could really be persuaded that we are miserable sinners—that the trouble is not outside us but inside us, and that therefore, by the grace of God, we can do something to put it right—we should receive that message as the most hopeful and heartening thing that can be imagined. "

— Dorothy Sayers, Creed or Chaos?

"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me."

-----Psalm 51:10-12

Online sermon 1, When Suffering Comes, Alistar Begg, on its inevitability.

Online sermon 2, Rescued By the Hand of God, an amazing story of rescue from a plane crash in the Bering Sea.