When the rapture occurs many will believe that people have been snatched away by some invasion from outer space, UFOs, or disappeared into a parallel dimension. TV and the Internet will be flooded with many theories. None of these will be true!! Time is short! Come to Jesus!!
Disbelieve, or neglect the Word of God, and you reject the only chart to eternity.
-Octavius Winslow
To deal effectively with hearing God as part of life within his will, it’s necessary to consider some deeper issues about what he intends for us and about the nature of the world in which he has placed us. - Hearing God (p. 16).
Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.
Be expectant in this new year for all that the Lord has in store for you! Don't allow the disappointments of the past to keep you from putting your full hope and expectation in the blessings the Lord has for you in your future!
“One’s own household, then, is a testing ground, and an ongoing test, for leading in the church.” — David Mathis, Workers For Your Joy, 165.
Satan loves to deceive through sexual immorality, confusion, perversion, and mutilation. He is sly. The bait is illicit and tantalizing. Yet, it brings shame, emptiness, death, and destruction.
“Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therein lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else” —Norman Geisler
There is no shelter from an angry God but in the pierced hand of His dear Son!
~Charles Spurgeon
Each Person in the Trinity has a hand in making a believer persevere.
What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God the most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.
J. I. Packer
“God has holy ends in permitting sin, but men and women have unworthy ends in committing it.” — Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 30.
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. -Horatius Bonar
There are such arrogant antichrists teaching blasphemies. I especially hate it when they *sound* knowledgeable, and so better to deceive.
“As the vine transfuses juice and life to the branch to make it fruitful, so must we understand the depth and comfort of the phrase, Christ in you.” — Richard Sibbes
No struggle or temptation is too big for God. When we surrender fully to God and walk with the Holy Spirit, He will be faithful to remove the desires of the flesh. (Galatians 5:16-17)
“The Church should never be a safe space for bad ideas. It must be a place where people are treated with gentleness and respect, but also a place where corrupted thinking goes to die” —Bob Perry
“God orders and governs evil acts by his own unsearchable wisdom and goodness, redirect to the best and holiest ends.” — Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 30.
If in your preaching you emphasize especially the biblical doctrines the world most dislikes (to feel courageous) OR if you emphasize especially the biblical doctrines the world most likes (to be popular) --you are letting the world set the agenda instead of the Scriptural text,
“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.” - C.S. Lewis
“The cross never makes itself an ally with the sin it must crush.” — Rosaria Butterfield
Good hospitality is making your home a hospital. The idea is that friends and family and the wounded and weary people come to your home and leave helped and refreshed.
Kevin DeYoung
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