Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom, or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will. -J.C. Ryle
We rob the gospel of its power if we leave out its threats of punishment. -C.H. Spurgeon ...the most urgent need of this hour is that we jolt the sleeping church against iniquity -Leonard Ravenhill In every Christian's heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross -A.W. Tozer
We are on the wrong track if we think of expository preaching merely as a preaching style chosen from a list (topical, devotional, evangelistic, textual, apologetic, prophetic, expository)… As John Stott says, “All true Christian preaching is expository preaching.” -Alistair Begg
There is a way to pursue relational health and honor God in the middle of the conflict. Better reactions will lead to better conversations, which lead to better relationships and ultimately to better living. The more we pay attention to seemingly small, moment-by-moment instructions from God, the more our thinking will start to line up with His. Our minds will get in a new rhythm of seeing what He wants us to see so that we can do what He wants us to do.
“God does not love people because they have sorted themselves out: he loves failures, and that love makes them flourish.” — Michael Reeves, Right With God, 9.
“Christ knows all His sheep. His knowing His sheep is His loving them. This is a great consolation.” — Thomas Watson
“It is by faith and faith alone that we are justified in God’s sight. And everyone who has faith, however weak that faith may be, is just as effectively united to Christ and the righteousnesses of God” — John Murray
“We celebrate the infinite power of the Deity, whereby he can not only restrain our outward enemies from overthrowing our salvation but also so fix the wavering disposition of our will.” — Herman Witsius “… whoever looks to Jesus by faith, is pardoned, however great his sins may have been, and however feeble his faith.” — J. C. Ryle on John 3:14-15 “It is the very drift and design of the whole Scripture, to bring souls first to an acquaintance with Christ, and then to an acceptance of Christ, and then to build them in a sweet assurance of their actual interest in Christ.” — Thomas Brooks
“Though most… Christians don't view God in light of the prosperity gospel, we can all at times succumb to it by thinking our relationship with God is transactional.” — Blake Long, When God Says No, 20. “Assurance of faith can never come by the works of the law. It is an evangelical virtue, and can only reach us in a gospel way.” — C.H. Spurgeon “When Christ and we are one, his sufferings are ours, and his victory is ours, all is ours. Then the Spirit works in our love and other graces.” — Richard Sibbes
“One of the blessings of church history is that believers who have gone before us have thought long and hard about the difficult questions of the Christian life.” — Guy Prentiss Waters, Facing the Last Enemy, 43.
By paying the price to divine justice, he redeems us, and He alone. We are in bondage to the wrath of God under his justice, and so justice must be satisfied before we can be free. — Richard Sibbes
"The death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ was never Plan B. Anything could be further from the truth! In eternity past, the triune God determined that the road to Calvary would be the way of salvation." —Alistair Begg
Every poor sinner that hears the law and the gospel, and neither trembles at threatenings, nor rejoices at promises, says every day of God, “He lies”. —Puritan Robert Traill, Works 2:68
The whole gospel is contained in Christ. John Calvin
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