This is absolutely essential; to have the right relationship with the living God is to possess the most valuable thing in existence. - John MacArthur
No teacher should strive to make men think as he thinks, but to lead them to the living Truth, to the Master himself, of whom alone they can learn anything, who will make them in themselves know what is true by the very seeing of it.
A Christianity tolerant of other religions is just no Christianity at all.
"Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves."
There are only two religions: 1. Those who love Christ 2. Those who hate Christ
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. -
Vance Havner
Actions of love lead to feelings of love. Not the other way around.
"A sermon that just informs the mind can give people things to do after they go home, but a sermon that moves the heart from loving career or acclaim or one’s own independence to loving God and his Son changes listeners on the spot." - Tim Keller
I believe many dear well meaning Christians have given in because they do not want to offend the world when in reality the message of Christianity and the Cross is offensive to the World. - Burk Parsons
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him. John Flavel
“Moses’ face did shine, and others saw it, but he perceived it not. So many a precious soul is rich in grace, and others see it, and know it, and bless God for it, and yet the poor soul [may] perceive it not.” —Puritan Thomas Brooks, Works 3:130
If we miss the holiness of God, we won’t understand the gospel. We won’t understand the death of Christ. We won’t understand Christianity.
Failure brings forth dependence, and dependence on God is where our strength comes from.
We don’t have to possess assurance of our salvation in order to be in a state of grace. We may be plagued with doubts, yet be saved. However, in the absence of assurance, we will lack a measure of Christian well-being. —
RC Sproul, Truths We Confess, Pg. 405
"If you do not believe in God's wrath, there is no real need for the sacrifice on Calvary's hill." -Dr. David Martyn Lloyd Jones.
Training Your Child To Know The Bible by J.C. Ryle
You cannot make your children love the Bible, I admit. No one but the Holy Spirit can give us the heart to delight in the Word. But you can make sure that your children are acquainted with the Bible...
"As the most dangerous winds may enter at little openings, so the devil never enters more dangerously than by little unobserved incidents, which seem to be nothing, yet insensibly open the heart to great temptations." —John Wesley
"I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody." -
Adrian Rogers
"There is no place where you can go where Christ has not been before you." —
Charles Spurgeon
"The Preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance." -
Alistair Begg
At Calvary the victory has been secured; at the second coming it will be fully demonstrated. Peter Lewis.
The meaning of this term grace… is that though we deserved nothing but punishment and hell and banishment out of the sight of God to all eternity, God, of His own love and grace and wondrous mercy, has granted us this salvation. ~
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Word is the chariot in which the Spirit of God rides; whichever way the tide of the Word runs, that way the wind of the Spirit blows. —
Thomas Watson The Godly Man’s Picture, 68.
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. John Flavel
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