This is the most dangerous trial of all when there is no trial and everything goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold, and to misuse times of prosperity.
Martin Luther
“So, for me to prepare the ground is: ‘Let’s do our part as we’re praying for God to do his part. Only God can send the spiritual awakening. Only God can heal our land, but what are we supposed to do? We’re supposed to pray.” Greg Laurie
Every day I visit the cross and every day I am assured of God’s infinite love for me!
"Man has a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God works in him." -George Whitefield.
"HARPAZO" The rapture of the church is a unique event that will be witnessed worldwide. The transformation of the bodies of those who believe in Jesus happens IN AN INSTANT, in an ' ATOM OF TIME '. Then they, along with the resurrected believers, are caught UP in clouds.
Your identity is not found in sexuality, your identity is found in a Savior.
Do you really think God has been out until you got there in the room? Do you think that God isn’t involved in people’s lives before they become Christian? ... I think He’s flirting with us all the time. And the Holy Spirit's job is to, again, draw us into Christ.
-Alan Hirsch
“Men must not be too curious in prying into the weaknesses of others. We should labor rather see what they have that is for eternity, than the weakness which the Spirit of God will in time consume.” — Richard Sibbes
Doctrines of demons promoted by some "Christians" God will save everyone A woman can be a pastor Killing unborn children is healthcare Feelings supersede Biblical teachings Its fine for a man to have sex with another man Psychological counseling is better than Biblical counseling
In times of adversity, believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God’s ordinance and command, for they are under His hand.
John Calvin
A Christian must retire from the world, to have serious thinking upon God.
-Thomas Watson
Though men know God by the light of nature, yet they cannot come to God by that knowledge. —John Owen, Works 6:428
"Christ Jesus is with thee; though thou hearest not his voice, and seest not his face, he is with thee." - Charles Spurgeon
Rose early to seek God and found him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
But if everyone else has gone astray, it is your duty to follow Christ. He is the perfect example. D.L. Moody
“We have a balance to strike—not to preach Christ without preaching the text, and not to preach the text without preaching Christ.” -Tim Keller
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
The faith in a God who speaks personally to the soul is nowhere recorded more plainly than in the hymns of the church, from all ages, sung week by week by the church as it congregates and day by day by Christians as they go about their lives at work, at home, at play.
Hearing God
A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.
“Christ came down from heaven and emptied himself… in tender love to souls. Will we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Will man be proud after God has been humble?” — Richard Sibbes
The greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith.
Oh! how willingly would Jesus Christ have even those professors that come to him with pretenses only, come to him sincerely, that they may be saved?
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