Mike Riccardi
@MikeRiccardi_
Satisfied in Christ | Husband | Father | Pastor @GraceComChurch | Professor @MastersSeminary
I’ve had the privilege of writing a few books. I thought I’d gather the links into one spot for those interested. Grateful to the Lord Jesus for blessing His Word. SDG. Sanctification: gracebooks.com/sanctification… Forest & the Trees: gracebooks.com/the-forest-and… To Save Sinners:…
Thinking of this passage from Bunyan, as my friends, John MacArthur and Francine Davis, have recently entered the Celestial City. fb.watch/B0M0xMQa84/?mi… “The talk they had with the Shining Ones [angels] was about the glory of the place, who told them that the beauty and glory…
Something I’ll always remember and love about John MacArthur was his combination of humility and love for the Word of God. Those virtues meant that he was delighted to sit under (and promote) the ministry of other laborers, even if their gifts were far inferior to his own. I…
John MacArthur was a faithful pastor. He wasn’t just an exemplary preacher—though he did recognize that a chief role of the shepherd is to feed the sheep, and so he devoted his life to faithfulness in that essential work. But perhaps because the most public part of John’s…
I first met John MacArthur when I was 21 years old, visiting for the 2007 Shepherds’ Conference—the one where I learned that every self-respecting Calvinist was a premillennialist. 🙂 I had been saved for five or six years, and what little progress I’d made in the faith I owed…
Madelyn Moses provides us with a personal reflection on the life and ministry of John MacArthur. loom.ly/RigNtV8
On behalf of my brothers and sisters in Christ on the African continent I want to express our profound gratitude to God for the faithful life and ministry of Dr John MacArthur as he goes to his rest and reward. “A big tree has truly fallen in the village.” Until we meet again…!
John MacArthur in a sermon (1976): “Just imagine a world full of wonderful Christians, without imperfections. Pure bliss. Imagine only the deepest, divine love for one another, all of us united. What an incredible thought. I mean, think about it, sitting in a corner with Elijah…
Well done, dear friend. We’ll see you soon.
Our hearts are heavy, yet rejoicing, as we share the news that our beloved pastor and teacher John MacArthur has entered into the presence of the Savior. This evening, his faith became sight. He faithfully endured until his race was run. 2 Timothy 4:1-8
Archibald Brown’s closing words at Charles Spurgeon’s funeral: “Beloved President, Faithful Pastor, Prince of Preachers, Brother Beloved, “Dear Spurgeon, we bid thee not ‘farewell,’ but only a little while ‘good night.’ “Hard worker in the field, thy toil is ended! Champion…
“Peace is joy resting, and joy is peace dancing. “Joy cries hosanna before the Well-beloved, but peace leans her head on his bosom. “In the midst of bereavements and sickness we may scarcely be able to rejoice, but we may be at peace. When faith cannot break through a troop…
“His persecutors could not make him give way to anger. “They could not destroy his mercy; they could not slay his love; they could not cause him to think of himself; … “No; the strong-souled Christ still perseveres in his merciful work.” — Charles Spurgeon
“To will is of nature. To will aright is of grace.” — Augustine
“It appears to me amazing “that the God, who had reigned in glory over myriads of holy angels, “should be mocked by miscreants “who could not even have lived an instant longer in his presence “if he had not permitted them to do so.” — Charles Spurgeon
“He who calls you to come, knows your burden, what your sins have been and troubles are, yet he calls you: “if your sin hinder not Christ from calling, neither should it hinder you from coming. He that calls you, is able to ease you, ‘to save to the uttermost, all that come…
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom heaven and earth adore, From men and from the angel host Be praise and glory evermore!
“Genius, learning, eloquence, zeal, public exertion, and great sacrifices, even if it should be of all our goods, and of our lives themselves, “will be accounted of no value, in the eyes of the Lord, “if love to Christ be wanting.” — Archibald Alexander
“Every sin that we have ever committed made a gory furrow upon his precious back. “Those black and blue bruises, that alternate upon his sacred shoulders, were caused by the cruel scourging to which each of us contributed our share by our transgressions. “O beloved, weep as…
“I cannot (saith the believer) think all my troubles over, and that I shall never meet any more afflictions; it were a fond vanity to dream of that: “but I leave all these things where I have left my soul: he that has supported me under inward, will carry me through outward…