Christians in the second generation tend to become slack. Going to church becomes more like a religion. They go to church once in a while, but they do not take their relationship with Christ seriously. The third generation rebels, saying in their hearts, “Forget God, I do not need Him. I will live as I please.” They choose to reject the God of their parents and grandparents. These children grow up to be self-willed, making the decision to trust in themselves.
Raul Ries
The world is not falling apart. The world is falling into place!
Ray Bently
"We must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ if we are not in Christ."
— Charles Spurgeon
“If the truth offends, let it offend.” —
John MacArthur
"There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us." —
St. John Paul II
Like a little pebble in the shoe, a little sin will make a traveler to heaven walk very wearily.
The church is like a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power. —
Puritan Thomas Manton
"Never trust a faith healer who wears glasses."
Justin Peters
Faith is not a leap into the dark, but a step into the light.
He is a sufficient Savior because he is a living Savior.
Jonathan Edwards
“Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
2 Corinthians 9:7
If we feel reluctant and forced and not cheerful, Paul expects us to do some serious heart work until we are profoundly changed in our desires.
John Piper
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.
John Piper
If you’re unwilling to offend others, you’re not fit for ministry.
Matt Smethurst
The desperate need of the hour is for the Word of God to be unleashed. Not nuanced.
Grant R. Castleberry
“I am with you always” is enough for my soul to live upon no matter who forsakes me.
Dana Renee
If reading the Bible offends you it’s working..keep reading.
You never find the Apostles announcing beforehand that they are going to hold a Healing Service in a few days’ time. Why not? Because they never knew when it was going to happen. They did not decide, and it was not within their control.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"When you visit a sick person in the hospital, the most important part of your visit is your prayer." -Joel Beeke.
What we need now is a revival of holiness; a revival of character; a revival of people who are utterly selfless and prepared to lay their lives on the altar for God.
“As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”
Scott Bacher
There is a spiritual instinct in most true believers, which generally enables them to distinguish between true and false teaching. When they hear unsound instruction, there is something within them that says, ‘This is wrong.’
J.C. Ryle
If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.
John Bunyan
The church is not a PR firm for God as if he’s a temperamental celebrity that needs us to soften his image and downplay insensitive remarks he has made in the past.
Josh Daws
“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
-C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
It matters nothing who says a thing, and declares it to be religious truth; it matters nothing whether we like or dislike a doctrine. Is it in the Bible? That is the only question.
J.C. Ryle
"God has said much about prayer
because he knows we have much need of it."
— Charles Spurgeon
Saint Augustine suggested that the most important question regarding our legacy is, “What do I wish to be remembered for?”
"Christ saves his people, not in their sins, but from them."
Charles Spurgeon
Psychologist Angela Duckworth, in both her book and her Ted Talk about grit,3 says her studies on high achievers in business and education reveal that success has almost nothing to do with talent but much more to do with a never-give-up attitude. She calls that attitude grit. Nobody said life would be easy, but the healthiest way to walk the path marked out for us is to combine our perseverance and passion with pure grit.
His love to him who believes on him lives, for whom he loves he loves to the end.
Jonathan Edwards
The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.
~C.H. Spurgeon~
We need the energy, passion, and vision of the younger generations, and the wisdom of the older.
Ray Bently
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