Youth leaders, don’t undersell your students. They’re learning algebra and biology and trigonometry. They can handle some theology.
Ordinary, healthy, fruitful ministry. Desire this for your ministry above all: “Thus his influence was rather felt than seen,—recognized in its slowly ripening results, rather than in the conspicuousness of the means.” —Islay Burns, The Pastor of Kilsyth, 78. “Psychology’s relationship to the natural sciences is like margarine’s relationship to real butter. Margarine looks and spreads like the real thing, but anyone who tastes it can tell the difference." –– John Street, Why Biblical Counseling and Not Psychology?
"One mark of a man's true wisdom is his knowledge of his ignorance." — Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel of Christ is never safe in the hands of men who are preoccupied with maintaining their own power and authority over others." J.I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness, 280.
"All of God’s external works are indivisible works of the one God: guided by God’s singular divine wisdom, expressive of God’s singular divine goodness [perfection], performed by God’s singular divine power, aimed at God’s singular divine glory." — Scott Swain, The Trinity, 109
Don’t mistake God’s love and grace for the false belief that He affirms and celebrates sin.
"Above all, we need often to go to Christ, to get from his hand a fresh stock of that gospel provision which we are afterward to dispense to the people in his name." - Charles Spurgeon
"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting." - Francis Schaeffer
That which lies hidden in Christ and is revealed from him is full of love, sweetness, tenderness, kindness, and grace. - John Owen
"One thing will keep us from idealizing life’s best and will make bearable life’s worst, and that is the Cross." ~ Elisabeth Elliot
Ah! How many Laodicean churches have we in the world? How many professors are members of these churches? —John Owen, Works 6:544
“There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’” - C.S. Lewis
"There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power." - Charles Spurgeon
"[Christ] is our salvation, and we shall never put that salvation in tangible, graspable, real form unless we go to him, and get distinctly from himself the message we are to deliver on his behalf." - Charles Spurgeon
"If Christ was punished for my sins, I can never be punished for them." — Charles Spurgeon
We have to stop living conference to conference and start living Lord’s day to Lord’s day.
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, and follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible. J.C. Ryle
This world doesn't love you.
Your approval is not valued.
In the end, you will be hated.
Just like your Lord promised.
This world hated Him.
So speak the truth as He did.
Pick up your cross.
God is your reward.
Carnal men love the God that they make, but not the God that made them."
— Charles Spurgeon
Seeking to manipulate God to amass worldly things is not the purpose of prayer. Instead, prayer is submission to God’s sovereign will to grant us what He wishes. Dustin Benge
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