"Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it." - Ziad K. Abdelnour
"Scripture’s concern or focal point is readily presented as the redemptive story of God. It displays a progressively more specific identification of that story, culminating in the gospel of Jesus Christ."-James Patrick Callahan
"Read the Bible as if it’s all about you and it will be dark and confusing.
Read the Bible knowing it’s about Jesus and it’s light and cheering and wonderful."
- Mike Reeves
“Take a moment and marvel at this. Jesus is alive. He reigns in heaven and He rules over your church. And He exerts that kingly authority in your church through the Scriptures. Jesus’s subjects obey Him today by obeying those Scriptures.” - Jeremie Rinne
Shallow theology produces shallow worship. We can’t worship a God we don’t know.
"Many an hour is wasted in idle talk, many an evening frittered away in foolish amusements, degrading to Christians when the time might be occupied in exercises calculated to bring down untold blessings upon the family and upon the church."
- Charles Spurgeon
If you seek first to please God and are satisfied therein, you have but one to please instead of multitudes; and a multitude of masters are harder to please than one.
- Richard Baxter
Jesus' death actually accomplished something.
He didn't die for "an opportunity" for all mankind.
No. Jesus literally EXCHANGED His sheep's SIN for His Righteousness, and He took their punishment - every single drop of God's JUST WRATH.
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” -
C.S. Lewis
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. - Cornelius Van Til
The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus. - David Powlison
“Progressive Christians will learn, as did the liberal Christians of a previous generation, that conceding too much is never enough for Christianity’s enemies.” Carl Trueman
God despises all worldly glory, and accepts no man’s person; “but in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.” John Flavel
We shall never enjoy ourselves fully till we enjoy God eternally. Thomas Watson
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.” -C.S. Lewis
"One of the happiest moments in your life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change." -
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings but in the Blesser Himself!
⏤ Arthur Pink
[The preacher is] the man of God who is set on fire with the truth of God, who believes that he is called by God and equipped by the Spirit of God to speak to the minds of his hearers in such a compelling way that he must have an audience.
-John Armstrong
Without the Gospel, you are not a biblical counselor. You are a Pharisee. – J. Ryan Davidson
"Every measure of grace which we receive should lead us to seek after something higher still."
- Charles Spurgeon
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