“God will see to it that the man who finds him in his earthly happiness and thanks to him for it does not lack reminder that earthly things are transient…and that sooner or later there will be times when he can say in all sincerity, ‘I wish I were home.’”
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you want to harden the world to the true gospel, go ahead and tell them the lie that Jesus will fix their problems. Jesus came to solve our sin problem, not the problems of this life.
Ray Comfort
“Read the Bible as if it’s all about you and it will be dark and confusing. Read the Bible knowing it’s about Jesus and it’s light and cheering and wonderful.” —
Michael Reeves
Don't waste your time longing and waiting for the “bigger and better” opportunities, which may never come. Faithfulness in the seemingly small and insignificant things glorifies our Lord.
Dustin Benge
Jesus redeems our whole person. We will never be all God intended until body and spirit are reunited in Heaven. And just as our new bodies won’t be non-bodies, but real bodies, so the New Earth will be a real earth, not a non-earth.
Randy Alcorn
True believers have a joy that streams, without any circumstantial obstruction, out of a heart that is wholly satisfied in Christ and the promises of Scripture.
Dustin Benge
Great names come and go, but the name of Jesus remains. The devil still hates it, the world still opposes it, but God still blesses it and we can still claim it! “In the name of Jesus” is the key that unlocks the door of prayer and the treasury of God’s grace.
~Warren W. Wiersbe~
“How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, in a believer’s ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.” ~
John Newton
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
~John Henry Newman~
Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature; the Eternal Love humbling itself, clothing itself in the garb of meekness and gentleness, to win and serve and save us.
~Andrew Murray~
“Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life."
~Corrie Ten Boom~
"Advent is a time for marveling at inner mysteries, a time for watching in awed silence, and a time for getting in touch with our deepest longings for the Lord. Silencing the externals and going deeper into the stillness allows you to taste the riches of the incarnation. And what appears to be deprivation creates an expectation and space in one's soul to contain more Christmas joy when the 24th of December arrives.”
Kathy Rogers served as a Maranatha missionary in England
Christmas isn’t just a time to make us feel cozy and warm about family, friends, and peace on earth.
At the heart of the Christmas story is the truth that the human race is alienated from a holy God because of our sin and we need a Savior. Dustin Benge
The King of kings:
Born among animals,
Wrapped in smelly clothes,
Laid in a feed trough,
Breathing in dung filled air,
Visited by backwoods shepherds.
The incarnation annihilates the “prosperity gospel.”
Dustin Benge
A Christian can grow no more as he ought without feeding frequently, regularly, and largely on the Word of God than can a baby grow as he ought without proper nutriment.
R.A. Torrey
There will be no universal peace till the Prince of peace appears.
~J.C. Ryle~
When the Holy Spirit comes into you at your invitation, you receive as much of Him as you will ever have. You do not get a little bit of Him then and a little bit more at later experiences.
PR
The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim God's plan and passion to save His children.
~Max Lucado~
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called “The Word.”
~A.W.Tozer~
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature so that he thinks God's thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
R.A. Torrey
Puritan Thomas Watson understood that redemption (payment for another) was God’s greatest work: “Great was the work of creation but greater the work of redemption; it cost more to redeem us than to make us; in the one there was but the speaking of a Word, in the other the shedding of blood (Luke 1:51).”
Hymnwriter Frances Ridley Havergal saw a picture of the crucified Christ and penned these words: “I gave My life for thee/The precious blood I shed/ That thou might ransom be/ And quickened from the dead/ I gave, I gave, My life for thee/ What hast thou given for Me?”
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