"Christ's blood is able to save any sinner" - Adulterers, Blasphemers, Cowards, Deceivers, Doubters, Drunks, Gluttons, Gossips, Hypocrites, Idolaters, Liars, Moralists Murderers, Perverts, Racists, Slanderers, and Thieves. No matter where you've been or what you've done, Jesus can save you.
“I’m all for lifestyle evangelism, but I’m also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it” —Lee Strobel
We live in a world that views work itself as a curse, but work is a pre-fall construct. Work is a gift from God that brings Him glory & displays the nobility of being His image bearers.
When I stand before the throne, dressed in beauty not my own when I see thee as thou art, love thee with unsinning heart, then, Lord, shall I fully know, not till then, how much I owe. // Robert Murray M'Cheyne
"Your finances are about more than just money, and the best way to reset your finances is to recognize yourself as a steward, a manager, of God’s resources."
Chuck Bentley
"God never attempts what he cannot accomplish." — Charles Spurgeon
“He wants to give you peace and joy that you’ve never known before. He wants to forgive all your sins and He wants to give you the assurance that if you died tonight you’d go to heaven.” —
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me. —
Robert Murray M’Cheyne
“How pastors carry themselves in conflict is as important as engaging the right battles.” — David Mathis, Workers For Your Joy, 232.
A preacher who spends the bulk of his time telling stories is guilty of pastoral malpractice. - Peter J. Leithart
“The concept of government is not bad. It only seems that way in a fallen world where governmental structures are tainted by corruption and wrongdoing. But the government is needed whenever people are gathered in proximity to each other.” —
Michael Vlach, He Will Reign Forever, 155.
"True Christianity is a struggle, a fight, and warfare. He that pretends to condemn fighting and teaches that we ought to sit still and yield ourselves to God appears to me to misunderstand his Bible, and to make a great mistake."
JC Ryle (Holiness)
“Growth in godliness can never be divorced from the Word of God.”
We are not responsible that the Hindoo worships his idols, we are not responsible that the African adores his fetish, but we are responsible that the Hindoo does not know the gospel, and that the African has not heard of the atoning sacrifice of Christ.
There is no sympathy like that of Christ. In all our afflictions He is afflicted. He knows our sorrows. In all our pain He is pained, and like the good Physician, He will not measure out to us one drop of sorrow too much.
“When nothing comes out of a man but scorning of goodness, and that which is rotten and offensive—the devil is there.” — Richard Sibbes
Yes, surely the entire universe is a beneficiary of God’s rich grace in Jesus Christ!
Tozer
To set man before God is unrighteous, and shows the essential injustice of unrenewed hearts; for when their hearts are set right, men feel that they would sooner a thousand times offend their fellow men than once offend their God." - Charles Spurgeon
"God is love, but God is also a consuming fire. God is merciful, but God is true. God is great, but God is good. All excellencies are in him in perfection." - Charles Spurgeon
"The greatest blessing which God ever gave to man was the man Christ Jesus." —
Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon
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