As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God -A.W. Tozer - The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. -Jonathan Edwards -
“What is thought to be a call to the ministry is more common than many people suppose. In saying this, we purposely set aside all those schemes of human contrivance by which religious young men are manufactured into ministers by the aggregate, and can be sent out to order, to suit any pulpit and any people; and we take as little account of those numerous instances where pride and ignorance, vanity and self-conceit, love of ease, and aversion to hard and daily work, combine, with some natural ability of mind and readiness of speech, to persuade an aspiring youth, that a pulpit is a proper place for him to adorn and for it to adorn him. Such man-made ministers, and such self-admiring beauties, have no place in the Church of Christ, and no place in the consciences of those who know and love truth in its power.” — Joseph Charles (J.C.) Philpot (1802-1869), The Call and Qualifications for Gospel Ministry
"It is time to reassess the importance of prayer meetings, for the church that does not earnestly pray together cannot hope to experience reformation and revival. " Dr. Joel Beeke
Jesus Christ representatively obeys, substitutionary dies and triumphantly rises. – Mike Abendroth As we press those who are changing from within to actively apply biblical principles for change, we will point them back to the great love of Christ, who we are in Him, and dependence on all His resources, each found in the gospel. – Stuart Scott
If you are looking for a good book on presuppositional apologetics that is easy to read, check out – Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended by Greg Bahnsen.
The Christian offers the self-attesting Christ to the world as the only foundation upon which a man must stand in order to give any “reason” for anything at all. – Cornelius Van Til
Pastors, do you want to know how much you love Christ? Then ask this question; how much do I feed the sheep? - Mike Waters
"Let earth and heaven combine, Angels and men agree, To praise, in songs divine, The incarnate Deity; Our God contracted to a span, Incomprehensibly made man."
—Charles Wesley, "They Shall Call His Name Immanuel"
"In a moment in time, the Son of God became what He was not (namely, a man) without ever ceasing to be what He was (namely, God)." —Alistair Begg
"God offers us today the Savior and Lord who we would never have asked for but who we desperately need. So, as you consider what you want in life, remember this: God has already given you what you most need in giving us His Son." —Alistair Begg
God reveals Himself to us in the Bible—but not completely. There's an element of mystery that can't be unlocked until all's made new. But find out what we can know now that angels only wish they knew! That's our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg:
"Sexual sin sears the sinner inescapably." —Alistair Begg
"Used at the wrong time in the wrong place with the wrong person, even that which is good and beautiful in the plan of God becomes perverted as a result of our own fleshly instincts and the inroads of the Evil One." —Alistair Begg
... God's people must slow their pace and have time to allow God's truth to sink into their thinking... if we want our practice and behavior to change in a lasting way, then there is no better way for this to happen than to begin to meditate on God's truth.” — David Saxton
Definite (limited) Atonement: “Christ did not win a hypothetical salvation for hypothetical believers, a mere possibility of salvation for any who might possibly believe, but a real salvation for His own chosen people.” —Packer
“Above all let us humbly pray for the teaching of the Holy Spirit. He alone can apply truth to our hearts, and make us profit by what we read.” — J. C. Ryle
“… the difference between Jesus and the Pharisees was not that they had differing customs regarding how to observe the Sabbath; it was that they held contradictory views on the way of salvation.” — John MacArthur, Jesus Unleashed, 88.
“There is no Christian soul that does not desire the grace of sanctification to change him as much as the grace of pardon.” — Richard Sibbes
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