Jesus died on the cross, thus forging reconciliation among divided peoples. Consequently, how will you live today? Today is the day! This is the day!
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud piles in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
C.S. Lewis
As a believer in Christ, you have been chosen to answer the calls of a world in distress. Answer that ring with a faithful prayer for your neighbors and for your city.
The vision of your leadership is just as important as the pastors.
There is no place for shy people in ministry leadership!
I can only say that observing these stories from the outside stirred me... but when I realized I was actually inside Jesus’s story (and He inside mine) it changed me. The fear and pride that captured my heart was finally dislodged. The fact that Jesus had to die for me humbled me out of my pride. The fact that Jesus was glad to die for me assured me of my fear. • Timothy Keller
COME AND SEE YOUR PLACE IN THE WORK OF THE LORD!
When Impossible Odds Meet an Unstoppable God.
On the other side of every hardship is a resurrection. • Lysa Terkeurst
I will never see what is off the wall until I see what is on the wall:
He clearly loves the one just as much as he loves the million.
Often times we want to deal with the outside behavior and not the inside of our hearts.
Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience withdraws from grace.
~Thomas á Kempis~
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
~William N. Clarke~
God has not forgotten you, and He never will. He hasn't caused your pain, and He never would. He loves you! But He does allow us to encounter pain. He allows us to experience our own weakness so that we may know His strength. He wants our attention, and He uses times of pain to refocus us. He shows us the compromises and mistakes we've made -- mistakes that would go unnoticed in times of great blessing.
God’s love is always supernatural, always a miracle, always the last thing we deserve.
~Robert M. Horn~
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite at you.
The pursuit of power can separate the most resolute Christians from the
true nature of Christian leadership.
~Charles Colson~
Only in obedience can we discover the great joy of the will of God.
~Sinclair Ferguson~
They do not love Christ who loves anything more than Christ.
~Thomas Brooks~
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "Pray for your children. Wrestle with God for them night and day." — Charles Spurgeon
"Truth is not to be hushed up, but proclaimed." — Charles Spurgeon
"Jesus is the sum and substance of the whole Scripture." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is no power is us apart from the presence of Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon
"The Christian's business is, first, to learn Christ's will, and, second, to do it." — Charles Spurgeon
Holiness is the rule of all His actions. -A.W. Pink - The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. -J.C. Ryle -
My reply is that the testimony of the Spirit, is superior to reason. -John Calvin - If Satan cannot take a Christian away from duty, he will put him on too far in duty. -
Thomas Watson -
The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. —
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"God did not give us His gospel just so we could embrace it and be converted. Actaully, He offers it to us every day as a gift that keeps on giving to us everything we need for life and godliness." –– Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer, 5.
You might be cancelled on Earth, but your faithfulness will be honored in heaven!” —
Erwin W. Lutzer
Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature and the riches of free grace. John Newton
I say to all believers who read this, if you want your spiritual life to be more healthy and vigorous, you must just come more boldly to the throne of grace. —JC Ryle, Old Paths, Pg. 13
God chose us, not merely that we might escape hell and go to heaven when we die, but that we might serve Him here and now. And what better way is there of serving Him than by the spread of His gospel? —R.B Kuiper, To Be or Not to Be Reformed, Pg. 78 #Evangelize They [who deny penal substitutionary atonement] fondly imagine that they magnify the love of God. Actually they are making it very much smaller, and robbing it of its greatest glory. The love of God is so great that He delivered up His Son for us. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Rom 8.394
Following Jesus isn’t a weekend hobby. It is your life!
Prayer is the most important ministry anyone can undertake. Jon Courson “Make the Lord’s Day the market day for thy soul..” —John Bunyan
"O you who are not saved at all, I ask not you to work, I ask not you to sow; but come ye to Christ Jesus, look ye to his cross." - Charles Spurgeon
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.” - C.S. Lewis
“God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.” —Charles Spurgeon
I admit it: There is no preTrib ‘Secret Rapture.’ The preTrib resurrection & rapture will be very evident as bodies rise from graveyards & believers are taken up. Imagine the global chaos. ‘Secret Rapture’ is a derogatory reference that has no place in a sincere discussion.
When our feelings, emotions, preferences, lifestyles, and opinions don’t line up with the Bible… it’s not the Bible that needs to change.
God sees our failings, our flaws, and our weaknesses. And yet He stands ready to pardon. When we call on Him, He forgives us, washes us, and renews us. It is just His nature. Chuck Smith
The whole Sabbath is to be dedicated to God. It is not said, ‘Keep a part of the Sabbath holy’, but the whole day must be religiously observed. —Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments, Pg. 117
“God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.” —Charles Spurgeon
The pains of hell which Christ suffered, though they were not infinite in time, yet were they of an infinite price and value for the dignity of the person that suffered them. -Thomas Brooks, Works 5:110
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - C.S. Lewis
"Oh, how we shall bless God to think that we were accounted worthy to do anything for Christ!" - Charles Spurgeon
Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross. Nicolaus Zinzendorf
The first step is always prayer—and then we act. Prayer is never a substitution for taking practical measures. You may say, "Well, I have prayed and I just have faith that the Lord will take care of things." But the Bible tells us that faith without works is dead. Chuck Smith
“If we’re not careful as Christians we can fall into the trap of shaving off the edges of the truth so we can be liked.” — Voddie Baucham
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