We (our children included) are sinners, living in a fallen world. When you are a sinner, “be yourself” is not always good advice! If we don’t correct our sinful tendencies, we will sin more and have to live with its terrible consequences.
Randy Alcorn
God works in us and with us, not against us or without us.
~John Owen~
Change your mind, rework your thinking. Our stinking thinking gets us into trouble. Replace that with the truth: Jesus came to let us be healed and forgiven. We don’t need to renegotiate the past; we can’t change it. We need to repent, change our minds, turn away from that which is harming us, and follow Jesus.
PR
Chuck Smith used to say, “Only one life to live, it will soon be past, Only what is done for Christ will last.
There is no other basis for the personality, morality, dignity, and value of man, save that it is founded in the fact of this personal, infinite, creator God.
Alistair Begg
Everyone wants to see the walls of Jericho come down but nobody wants to be the one who has to march around the walls. Jason Robinson
Every precious diamond ever found isn’t worth a hill of beans compared to the treasure we have in Christ.
Ray Comfort
When we trust in the Lord, the glorious works of God are manifested in and through our lives "with power." The power involved in this process is His power.
Bob Hoekstra
I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home.
~James O. Fraser~
Life on the New Earth will be like sitting in front of a fire with family and friends, laughing uproariously, dreaming of the adventures to come—and then living those adventures together with no fear that dreams will be shattered or relationships broken.
Randy Alcorn
Man's problems are a result of his relationship with Adam, who fell into sin and rebellion. God's remedies are found in a new relationship with Jesus Christ. As we have seen, all of humanity begins life ruled by a tyrant dictator called death. "By the one man's offense death reigned through the one." However, when people become related to Jesus Christ through faith, they can learn to reign in life by the "much more" grace of God.
Bob Hoekstra
Better to miss 100 meals than miss your daily reading of the Bible.
Ray Comfort
The apparent conflict between grace and truth isn’t because they’re incompatible, but because we lack the perspective to resolve their paradox. The two are interdependent. Jesus wasn’t 50% grace, 50% truth, but 100% grace, 100% truth.
Randy Alcorn
If you understand the plan of salvation you are sufficiently instructed to be a good witness for your Lord. Oh, that the Holy Spirit may make you such!
~C.H. Spurgeon~
God is not distant and unapproachable, but rather humble and loving. He comes down off His throne and lowers Himself to interact with His children. He’s our Daddy, after all, and a perfect one at that.
Ray Bently
Suspicions subtract, faith adds, but love multiplies. It blesses twice—him who gives it and him who gets it.
~C.T Studd~
Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so, grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5:20-21)
Sin can overflow lives until there seems to be no hope. Yet, the Scriptures boldly declare that the grace of God is greater than the most terrible, the aggravated sin of man. Yes, even when sin is abounding, grace can eventually abound "much more."
PR.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
~John Wesley~
Thanksgiving isn’t just a holiday; it’s a daily privilege and command. The happiest people are the most thankful ones.
PR.
Forgetfulness is the greatest thief to your thankfulness!
Jason Powell
The grace of God is "much more" than our sin and our failure. It is "much more" than our personal inadequacy. It is "much more" than our comprehension of it. God's grace is "much more" than necessary to radically change our lives. In the limitless resources of God, there is exceedingly abundant grace for transformation. The Apostle Paul is a distinctive example of this transforming grace of God. The Lord took him from religious enmity into spiritual service.
Bob Hoekstra
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be. ~Max Lucardo~
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