"Give" is the language of grace. "I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus" (1 Corinthians 1:4)
If you want more “WOW!” in your life, sometimes you got to go out of your way to experience it.
Let’s get intentional and turn up the wonder this Christmas! We need to be willing to be disrupted. But, isn’t the wonder of Jesus so worth it?
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, and resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.
~C. H. Spurgeon~
The Jewish people knew the Scriptures and understood their Messiah would one day be born, but were they ready to receive JESUS? The real question is, are you ready to receive Him? He alone can save you from your sins!
You have a problem that’s so big you don’t know how it can ever be resolved. God is bigger than your problem. With God, nothing’s impossible.
The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of the scriptures. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a jumble of words without any unifying theme. Accept it, and the Bible becomes an intelligible and ordered revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ.
~J. Oswald Sanders~
"Your life may be morally sound and you may be a good churchgoer with all the right theology, but if the result is not a clean, free conscience overflowing with pure love, then something is wrong," Mike Mason.
The last days are referred to in multiple places as dark times. It is in dark times that the light of good works shines the brightest and God is glorified through them. Complaining and disputing dim the light of good works and make us look no different than the world.
"How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?" -Leonard Ravenhill.
"To us, true prayer is true power." — Charles Spurgeon
"None were ever cast away who stood at the cross foot; for it is written, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” - Charles Spurgeon
I am not to believe what the Word says merely because it agrees with my reason, but I must believe my reason because it aligns with the Word. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 3:127
It was God's Word that made us; is it any wonder that his Word should sustain us?
- Charles Spurgeon
Pastor, in your Christmas sermons, remember that the cross is the heart of the gospel, not the manger. Start with the manger, and go straight to the cross.
"Come as you are, sinful as you are, hardened as you are, careless as you think you are, and having no good thing whatsoever, come to your God in Christ!" -
Charles Spurgeon
There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted that Christ cannot remove.
Charles Spurgeon
There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted that Christ cannot remove.
"Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day." —
Charles Spurgeon
The first time Christ came:
He came as a baby,
He came humbled,
He came wrapped in rags,
He came in a manger.
The second time christ Christ came:
He returns as a warrior,
He returns exalted,
He returns robed in glory,
He returns as King.
Jesus is not in the manger now!
"Doctrinal indifference is no solution to the problem of doctrinal differences." -
John Blanchard.
“The grand reason why God is so little trusted is that He is so little known. Knowledge of God is of such necessity to a right trust, that it is put down as a synonym for trust; “I will set him on a high because he hath known (trusted) in my name. (Ps. xci 14)”
Thomas Lye
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