Activity is no substitute for the Word of God. The detour of unbelief always leads us in circles – back to the same lessons, doubts, and fears again and again. Ray Bentley
Your character will withstand the falsehoods.
Crises reveal the secrets of men's hearts and show what stuff they are made of. FB Meyer
All around us, the signs are present. The signs that Jesus Himself indicated before His coming. He said: Now when these things begin to happen, raise up and raise your heads, for your deliverance is near.
As members of the Church of Christ, we are His representatives, His ambassadors, here on earth. 2 Cor. 5:20: “We are ambassadors of Christ, God makes his appeal through us. On behalf of Christ we ask: be reconciled to God”.
The Messiah was named "Yeshua" since He came to save [Hebrew: yeshua] His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). Yeshua did what the animal sacrifices only foreshadowed in the Torah but never finally accomplished Hebrews 2:9
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility have never had a falling out with each other. I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together.
Charles Spurgeon
May we proclaim that salvation is entirely of the Lord, all of grace, beginning and ending with God. Steven Lawson
Love without truth is rootless and results in a ministry that departs from the gospel.
Alistair Begg In the fight for faith, the issue is always the gospel. Alistair Begg
There’s no such thing as an “internet pastor”. Unless you attend that pastor’s church, he has no “authority” over you.
God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God. A.W. Tozer
One of the greatest sins for which we need to ask forgiveness is our lack of believing that God has forgiven us. There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor popular. Martin Luther People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own. A.W. Tozer Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world. Thomas Boston
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "Our salvation hinges upon the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon
"As sure as God is happy, his people must be happy." — Charles Spurgeon
As God is faithful, let us also be faithful." — Charles Spurgeon "To love Jesus is another name for paradise." — Charles Spurgeon
"Close communion with Jesus raises the heat of our love towards him." — Charles Spurgeon "Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise." — Charles Spurgeon "Give your all to Christ. Do not think of reserving some for another occasion." — Charles Spurgeon "Our efforts cannot make us ready for heaven, apart from the hand of Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon "The preciousness of mercy is best known by those who discern the terror of justice." — Charles Spurgeon "Beware, my dear Christian friends of living by feeling." — Charles Spurgeon "Every day brings us nearer to the coming of the Lord." — Charles Spurgeon "God asks us to believe in his love and he has given us abundant proofs of it." — Charles Spurgeon
"A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world." — Charles Spurgeon "O that you may grow in grace, love the gospel better, and love Christ better, for your country needs it, your children need it, yourselves need it." — Charles Spurgeon "We miss a thousand blessings because we are too busy to commune with God." — Charles Spurgeon "Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day." — Charles Spurgeon
"If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer." — Charles Spurgeon "When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but all the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone." — Charles Spurgeon "A minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach." — Charles Spurgeon "There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when he forgives a believer as when he casts a sinner into hell." — Charles Spurgeon
"Pray for your children. Wrestle with God for them night and day." — Charles Spurgeon
"Man, until sovereign grace opens his ears, is deaf to the heavenly harmonies of the love of God in Christ Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon "Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of." — Charles Spurgeon
"It is a blessed thing when darkness below gives us an eye to the light above." — Charles Spurgeon "If there be anything I know, anything that I am quite assured of beyond all question, it is that praying breath is never spent in vain." — Charles Spurgeon
Sodom was not [as] defiled by its pollutions, as Capernaum was by refusing Christ. That city was an epitome of hell both for sin and judgement, yet that defiling sin hath less guilt, less filth, than rejecting purifying gospel grace —Stephen Charnock, Unbelief the Greatest Sin Remember, you that are cast down, under the sense of sin, that Jesus, your friend, in the court above, "is able to save to the uttermost.” —Puritan John Flavel, Works 1:178
Detractors require that the term covenant appear in Genesis 1-3, whereas promoters read Genesis 1-3 within a larger canonical framework & bring more than a dozen different biblical texts to the table to substantiate the doctrine’s legitimacy. —JV Fesko, on the Covenant of Works Christ crucified, by satisfying the justice of God, broke the thunders of the law, and dissolved the frame of all its anathemas. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:499 When we behold Christ crucified, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘥, that hath in that, as a plain tablet, writ this language, that he will spare nothing for us, since he hath not spared the best he had. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:503 Let us not think that we are any the better for our conviction of the great doctrines of the gospel, unless we find the power of the truths abiding in our own hearts, and experience their necessity and excellency in our standing before God and our communion with him. Owen If the heart stay on Christ in the midst of doubtings, it is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 an evil heart of unbelief. That cannot be unbelief that resists unbelief. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:226 There are people today who seem to teach & to believe that you can take Christ as your Savior without taking Him as your Lord. They say you can take justification without sanctification. They say you can get forgiveness of sins without holiness. It is a lie. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones It is the business of Christians to make known to their children these oracles of God, so that in later life the children shall say ‘I thank God I had a Christian father, a Christian mother. I cannot tell you what I owe them…’ —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans 1:173
Be not contented to have right 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 of the love of Christ in your minds, unless you can attain a gracious 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 of it in your hearts. —Puritan John Owen, Works 1:338
The supreme being can at any moment bring light out of darkness - William Wilberforce
We had need to watch and pray, for we are but little children; this roaring lion is too strong for us, and this old serpent too subtle for us. - Jonathan Edwards
We had need to watch and pray, for we are but little children; this roaring lion is too strong for us, and this old serpent too subtle for us. - Jonathan Edwards Jesus Christ is the heart of Christianity. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the sum and substance of the gospel. I work not to keep myself in a justified state, (for men or devils can never pluck me out of Christ's hands,) but to express my love and gratitude for what Jesus has done for my soul. "Close communion with Jesus raises the heat of our love towards him." — Charles Spurgeon
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! -George Whitefield - Human pride is one of the most operative causes of self-destruction, and wealth is its prolific parent. -Octavius Winslow -
If we truly want to help men’s conscience so that they are not gripped by perpetual doubt, we must arrive at the authority of Scripture from a higher source than human reasoning, evidence or conjecture. We must that is base it on the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. John Calvin
"Our mission is cruciformity. The long journey of discipleship shapes us for selflessness, sacrifice and service. Like clay being shaped for purpose, we are irresistibly formed into the image of the Son." - Robert Fergusson
Although Scriptures own majesty is enough to command it reference, it really begins to affect us only when is sealed in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. John Calvin
If we depart from God’s word, however, fast we move, we will never reach our goal, for we are leaving the road far behind. John Calvin No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. John Calvin
The expositor should not communicate his own central idea, nor his own outline. He is, rather, to teach the central idea, outline, and theme of the author. Failure to reflect the author’s theme, outline, and central idea is a departure from true exposition. - Donald McDougall
"Give your all to Christ. Do not think of reserving some for another occasion." — Charles Spurgeon
First, the law prepares us by humbling us: then comes the gospel, and it stirs up faith. — William Perkins “Cheer up, Christ will not lose at last what He pursued so long; He that waited so many years for thy soul, will never cast it away now that He hath seated Himself in the possession of it.” — Puritan John Flavel, Works 4:88
The whole obedience of Christ, both active and passive, makes up one entire perfect obedience. — John Flavel
"A word that forcefully captures the essence of Jesus' work of propitiation is the word 'exhausted'. Jesus exhausted the wrath of God. It was not merely deflected and prevented from reaching us; it was exhausted. Jesus bore the full, unmitigated brunt of it." -Jerry Bridges. Good people don’t go to heaven. Those who are saved by Jesus do.
"While taking great care to be as winsome and accessible to people as we can be, the care we bring does not hinge on our personal charisma or likeability, but rather on God's living and abiding word." - Harold Senkbeil
Repentance and faith are the gifts of God, and they are gifts that He often withholds, when they have been long offered in vain -J.C. Ryle - How can God do his work in people who seem to think that Christianity is just another way of getting things from God? -A.W. Tozer -
Many people think Christianity is: I do whatever I want & however I want. And, God exists to help me accomplish my dreams & goals for my life. However, Biblical Christianity is: Jesus saves me from my self. And, I exist to do whatever God calls me to for His Kingdom & glory.
“There are two ways of having a good conscience. One is by not having transgressed; the other is by having the guilt taken away by the application of the blood of Jesus.” - James Fraser. A Treatise on Sanctification
“The authority of Jesus is not limited in any respect. He is the Lord and Master of my street, my neighbours, my suburb, my workmates, my family, my city, my nation— and yes, the whole world.” — Colin Marshal and Tony Payne
"Trust comes from repeated acts of trustworthiness." -Jim Hurley. "A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world." — Charles Spurgeon
"Satan cares not how spiritual your intentions be, and how holy your resolutions, if only they are fixed for tomorrow." - J.C. Ryle
"When intimidated by who's sitting in the audience, we should remember the King of Kings is also here, and it's His message." - Chuck Swindoll
God is often moved to delay that we may be led to pray, and even the answers to prayer are deferred so that the natural and carnal spirit may be kept in check and self-will may bow before the will of God. - George Müller Inerrancy is not the most critical issue facing the church today. The most serious issue, I believe, is the Bible’s sufficiency. —James Montgomery Boice #Bible #Christianity Trials, above all other things, have a tendency to distinguish between true religion and false. —Jonathan Edwards
We don’t believe in the power of prayer. We believe in the power of God, and that’s why we pray.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength -Thomas Watson - The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned. -Leonard Ravenhill -
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy. John Calvin Humility is the beginning of true intelligence. John Calvin
"Singleness ought not to be viewed as a problem, nor marriage as a right. God in His wisdom and love grants either as a gift." -Elisabeth Elliot. We must have a *taste* for divine things. They are not to be understood but by tasting. No *description* of a fine apple will give any idea of its taste. - John Newton We need to stop blaming sins on “chemical imbalances” instead of our deceitful and wicked hearts. We must interpret the mysterious providences of God not by reason or observation, but by the Word. – AW Pink Are we really having a discussion on if women are "allowed" to get together to read theological books by men like Sproul? Of course, they can .... they can read books by MacArthur too. It's sad that some people have an issue with it.
“There was never a revival of religion without a revival of his opposition.” — C.H. Spurgeon
If you really cared about reproductive justice; you would be not be pro-abortion.
"God's NOT Picking On You! GOD HANDPICKED YOU! That's Why You CAN'T Do What Everyone Else Does, Or Get Away With What Others Can. YOU Are a CHOSEN MASTERPIECE.
"The Bible is God's book of promises." -Billy Graham
“We are not alarmed because Satan hindereth us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord's side, and are doing the Lord's work, and in His strength we shall win the victory, and triumph over our adversary.” — C.H. Spurgeon
God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them. -George Whitefield - If washed in the atoning blood of Jesus, you are clean every where. -Octavius Winslow -
"True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and ourselves." -John Calvin
How many are there who only see chance at work as it tosses and tumbles men about, instead of God’s providence, which, in fact, governs them. John Calvin The entire world is invited to know God, and knowing him, to enjoy supreme happiness. John Calvin Through God’s blessing, he gives prosperity to the good, assistance in time of need, relieves their suffering, remedies their misfortunes and ever, and always provides for their salvation. John Calvin
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers. John Calvin
Jesus is better, YOU CAN'T HIDE SO DON'T RUN. Jesus is better at finding then you are in hiding. Jesus is better at forgiving then you are at messing up. Jesus is better at saving then you are at sinning. Jesus is better.
We may positively state that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ, unless he cheerfully looks forward towards the day of his death, and towards the day of the final resurrection.
~John Calvin~
The work of Jesus and the animating movement of the Spirit is present in every space and sphere we set foot in today—the home lives we invest in, the companies we lead, the relationships we cultivate, the text messages we write, and the food that we eat.
Christians have a dual citizenship on earth and in heaven––and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth.
~Warren W. Wiersbe~
Positionally the church is already [saved]; practically she is being set apart day by day. She is going through a process of moral and spiritual preparation... The process, [called] sanctification, is carried on by the washing of water by the word. In simple terms, this means that the lives of believers are cleansed as they hear the words of Christ and obey them... Just as the blood of Christ cleanses once-for-all from the guilt and penalty of sin, so the Word of God cleanses continually from the defilement and pollution of sin. This passage teaches that the church is being bathed at the present time, not with literal water, but with the cleansing agent of the word of God.
William MacDonald
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep
to gain that which he cannot lose.
~Jim Elliot~
If you want to experience revival in your life, then hang out with a brand-new believer.
Counterfeiting friendship is worse than counterfeiting money.
~Thomas Watson~
"If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others do it gladly."
Trust in the Lord and His promises and you will have victory in life.
Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing.
~Sinclair Ferguson~
It is the tendency of righteousness to produce blessings, as it is the tendency of evil to produce misery.
~Charles Hodge~
"What you do off the job is the determining factor in how far you will go on the job."- Zig Ziglar
We always think people will be taken care of when God is saying you take care of them, you counsel them, You feed them, and visit them. Stop passing the buck! Our Lord Jesus never pass the buck when He went to the cross but was faithful and obedient unto death.
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