"Since this is God’s very Word - we’re not up there to speculate, we’re not surmising, we’re not commenting, we’re not sharing: we have something to proclaim!" - Mike Neglia
"A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin." - Robert Murray McCheyne "Leaders must be people who are themselves submitted to that powerful word, whose lives are being shaped by its teaching, and whose ministry is enlivened & empowered by its dynamic effects." -Jonathan Lamb
When our pain is talking and all we hear are negative thoughts, let’s remember to bring those thoughts under the authority of Truth:
When a loved one dies knowing Jesus as Lord and Savior, God DOES NOT gain another angel. Rather, God calls another worshipper to come home. Your loved one gains the opportunity to see Jesus face to face. Fully healed, fully alive. They didn’t get wings, they got Jesus.
Preaching is not just a sermon. Preaching is not simply a transfer of ideology from one man to a group of people. Preaching is a verbal celebration of God and all of His glory.
"The sermon is the text repeated more fully." - G. Campbell Morgan
“The faith that alone receives God and the good things offered to us by God in the gospel does not remain alone but is a principle from which other virtues spring forth.” —
Scott R. Swain, The Trinity: An Introduction, 131.
If you want to know how Christ thinks about anything? Open your Bibles. — John MacArthur
Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death. John Knox
“Those that love the Lord God themselves should do what they can to engage the affections of their children to Him.” - Matthew Henry
In the midst of life, we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. Thomas Cranmer
If you want a spouse that loves Jesus, then you start by being someone that loves Jesus.
“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?” —Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ronald Reagan, one of our country’s all-time greatest presidents said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." He often gives me such foretastes of the glory to be revealed in us, that I want to leap my seventy years. - George Whitefield
“If you trust Christ, you are a child of God—whether you sense that or not. Live as if it it true, because it is.” — Deepak Reju
"England gets its fashions from Paris, and Paris gets their fashions from hell."
-Charles Spurgeon.
It is important to know the mind of man. It is absolutely essential to know the mind of God. The place to discover the mind of God is the Bible. This is the Book in which God reveals His mind.
Our mouths should be a fountain of gratitude and thanksgiving, not whining and complaining.
When a person believes in Christ, it delivers him from fear and terror in a sense of the guilt of sin and gives peace and comfort to a Redeemer.
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign. John Knox
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