We have to learn to preach to people while our hearts wait in faith for God’s assistance. Remember, we can never put the Spirit in a box. The Wind blows whenever and wherever he wants. Jim Cymbala
“If you want to change a marriage, change the man.”
— Justin Buzzard, Date Your Wife, 39.
[The Bible's] uniquely sacred character is something that does not need to be exaggerated or even insisted on because it is self-authenticating to any earnest and open-minded user.
Hearing God (p. 210).
"Though these are secular ways of thinking about dating, marriage, sex, and relationships, they are so deeply ingrained in the culture that even Christians are impacted by them."
Stop looking for the perfect church. Instead, go worship the perfect God with a congregation of flawed people who need grace just as much as you do.
[Christ] began to save me before I had been, so he will go on to save me when I am dead and gone, and will never leave off to save me until he has set me before his face forever
.Honoring those around you isn’t determined by if they deserve it or not. When we show honor, we are placing Heaven’s value on that individual.
For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed in saves; not believing in our own faith.
Horatius Bonar
“If Christ is in us, he transforms us to his own likeness; where he rules by the Spirit, he changes his people (2 Cor. 3:18).” — Richard Sibbes
"So long as you are willing to be used by God, you need not fear." —
Charles Spurgeon
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
Augustine
"Complete health in heaven will be ours when, our bodies having been raised from the dead incorruptible, our souls having been cleansed from all defilement, and our newborn spirit having come to its full development, our entire manhood shall be glorified."
- Charles Spurgeon
“When Christ enters and opens the understanding and enlarges the heart to see and admire better things, immediately that heart begins to care nothing for this world in comparison.” — Richard Sibbes
The Highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old
Augustine
You can’t say, 'Christ is all I need,' until Christ is all you have. You’ve got to lose everything — every interest. Maybe break up good friendships, maybe back off and the Lord says, “Go, hide yourself.” I tell every young man that comes to see me, “Hide yourself.”
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” - C.S. Lewis
The person who wishes to grow in grace is by far best advised to make a close and constant companion of the book—the Bible. Hearing God (p. 210).
Believers, not singly considered, but they and their seed, or their children, are these “people [of God]” and where they are excluded from the initial ordinance of the covenant, I know not how believers can be called "the people of God." —
John Owen, Exposition of Hebrews, 4:328
The expositor's task is to preach the mind of God." —John MacArthur
There are no plural paths to salvation and there are no multiple foundations upon which to stand. Instead, ‘there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:12). The gospel is singular.
We move beyond mere communication and communion toward union with him, and we have the opportunity of progressively unifying all aspects of our personalities with him so that, literally, “to me, living is Christ and dying is gain” (Phil 1:21).
Hearing God (p. 207).
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