STOP MAKING ROOM IN YOUR FUTURE FOR PEOPLE WHO MOVED OUT IN YOUR PAST!
"STOP DIGGING UP WHAT GOD TOLD YOU TO BURY!
TRYING TO HURT SOMEONE LIKE THEY HURT YOU, WON'T HEAL YOU.
"ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOUR SERMON IS AN ACT OF GOD, AND NEVER A MERE PERFORMANCE FOR MAN."
"YOU CAN'T PRAY YOUR WAY OUT OF A NECESSARY GROWTH CHALLENGE. ADVERSITY IS AS MUCH OF AN ASSISTANCE AS THE ANOINTING!"
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Of all the people on the planet, you talk to yourself more than anyone else. Make sure you're saying the right things."
Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give COMMUNION. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume…it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
MANY FOLLOW JESUS TO THE BREAKING OF BREAD, BUT FEW FOLLOW HIM TO THE CROSS.
IN THE END, GOD ISN'T GOING TO SAY, 'WELL DONE GOOD AND FAMOUS SERVANT,' BUT, 'WELL DONE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT.' GET YOUR PRIORITIES IN ORDER!"
"JUST A SINGLE SIN LEFT IN YOUR LIFE IS AS DANGEROUS AS JUST A SINGLE RATTLESNAKE LEFT IN YOUR BED. GET RID OF IT AND STAY DELIVERED!"
"PREACHING THAT STEPS ON YOUR TOES, CORRECTS YOUR WALK."
TWO-LEGGED SNAKES ARE DANGEROUS THEY WILL BITE YOU IN PRIVATE, THEN OFFER TO REMOVE THE VENOM IN PUBLIC, TRYING TO LOOK LIKE A HERO COMING TO YOUR RESCUE. ASK GOD TO TEACH YOU HOW TO HEAR THEIR HISS BEFORE YOU GET TOO CLOSE AND GET HURT!
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "If there is any glory from the work we do, let us lay it all at the Redeemer’s feet." — Charles Spurgeon
"Sin-sick souls should remember the power of the Word." — Charles Spurgeon
"Let everything else go, that you might be filled with God." — Charles Spurgeon "A good wife and health are a man's best wealth." — Charles Spurgeon
"No man ever fell into error through being too watchful." — Charles Spurgeon "You have often left God. Has he ever left you?" — Charles Spurgeon "Rest in God's faithfulness, and bid defiance to the blackest future." — Charles Spurgeon "You know your need of Christ; cast yourself upon him." — Charles Spurgeon
You have had many trials and troubles; has God ever deserted you?" — Charles Spurgeon "God, drive out our sins by the irresistible power of your grace." — Charles Spurgeon "God's love is a sea, an unsearchable depth." — Charles Spurgeon "If you are not God's servant, you are his foe." — Charles Spurgeon
"I find in God all that I want; but I find in myself nothing but sin and misery." — Charles Spurgeon "Christians will never have any cause to be ashamed of Jesus upon whom they believe." — Charles Spurgeon "Without Jesus I can do nothing." — Charles Spurgeon "The Bible is living and incorruptible. There is no destroying it." — Charles Spurgeon
"The way to hell is downhill; and it is easy traveling." — Charles Spurgeon "If you are a servant of God, obey him at once without question." — Charles Spurgeon "With more prayer we shall have more power." — Charles Spurgeon "If you have done the right thing before God, fear nothing and go forward." — Charles Spurgeon
"We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity." — Charles Spurgeon "If a thing is wrong, even if you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake." — Charles Spurgeon "We never rest till the Comforter makes us lie down." — Charles Spurgeon "God does not need your strength; he has more than enough on his own. He asks your weakness, he has none of that." — Charles Spurgeon
"If all the angels were with me, I might fail. But if God is with me, I must succeed." — Charles Spurgeon "Jesus loved us enough to die for us, and we may therefore be sure that his love will never die." — Charles Spurgeon "On his knees, the believer is invincible." — Charles Spurgeon "My own weakness makes me shrink, but God's promise makes me brave." — Charles Spurgeon
"Faith's way of gaining is giving." — Charles Spurgeon "Does God care for children? Yes, he does. And so should we." — Charles Spurgeon
It must be admitted that the term “covenant” is not found in the first 3 chapters of Genesis, but this is not tantamount to saying that they do not contain the necessary data for the construction of a doctrine of the covenant. —Louis Berkhoff, Systematic Theology, Pg. 208
Basically, the covenant of grace is simply the execution of the original agreement (the covenant of works) by Christ as our Surety. —Louis Berkhoff, Systematic Theology, Pg. 209
The satisfaction of Christ was more efficacious to take away sin and please God, than the sin of man had guilt to displease him. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:251
As faith ‘counts all things dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ’, so unbelief accounts the person, offices, doctrine, and laws of Christ as dung and dross in comparison of the excellency of self-righteousness, self-wisdom and self-dependence. —Stephen Charnock Satan hath a great advantage to this end, to drive to despair, from the guilt of our consciences; and an advantage to accuse us, from the darkness and ignorance of our hearts, and unacquainted-ness with the largeness & extent of the gospel. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:209 If a promise appears, Satan darkens it; if the soul cometh to close with it, Satan endeavors to beat off their fingers, and tells them they have not, nor are ever like to have, qualifications for the promise. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:208 While others waste their time in vain jangling and unprofitable controversy, let us take up the cross and give all diligence to make our calling and election sure. —JC Ryle
The devil is always for obscuring the gospel, and flashing the law in the face of a sinner. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:208 Don’t be like Satan, to yourself or others: “Satan would make us believe the blood of Christ is too shallow to cover the mountains of our iniquities.” —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 4:208 "A genuine love for God is always more deeply rooted in a person's heart than love for any worldly pleasure. This becomes evident when faced with a choice between keeping the worldly pleasure or maintaining their relationship with God." - Thomas Boston
The fact that we are born again & that we have become Christians does not mean that the devil will no longer try to tempt us. He will attack us. He will try to make us think that all that has happened to us is perhaps some psychological experience. —M. Lloyd-Jones, Rom 1:183
Drooping spirits may be believers. There is a manifest distinction made between faith in Christ and the comfort of that faith; between believing to eternal life, and knowing we have eternal life. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 2:224
Jesus is the answer to all your longings. Chuck Smith
No matter how much you feed your flesh, it will always want more. In fact, if you give in to an area of the flesh, rather than being satisfied, it demands more and more until it eventually brings you into bondage. Chuck Smith
Our Lord did not use his divine power to defeat Satan. He used the same weapon that is available to us today: the Word of God. Jesus was led by the Spirit of God and filled with the Word of God. Wiersbe
God is working through the pain to purify us and mold us into the image of Jesus. We can turn those problems over to Him and trust that He will work out His perfect plan. One choice pleases God— listening and trusting Him. Chuck Smith
A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christ’s sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ. Robert Murray M'Cheyne Preach the gospel, the gates of hell shake. Preach the gospel, prodigals return. Preach the gospel to every creature, it is the Master’s mandate and the Master’s power to everyone who believes. Charles Spurgeon
I always feel that I have not done my duty as a preacher of the gospel if I go out of this pulpit without having clearly set before sinners the way of salvation. Charles Spurgeon We are not building God’s kingdom. He is building His kingdom, and we are praying for the privilege of being involved. Francis Schaeffer
If men will not come to hear us because we preach the gospel, draw them by no other attractions. Charles Spurgeon God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us. Thomas Goodwin
Preach the scriptures to your heart. Tell your heart to shut up. Paul Washer To us, worry is exhausting, but God is all sufficient. Charles Spurgeon
"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.
“Certain it is, that when Christ comes, our troubles remove; when we behold Jesus, our sins vanish, and our doubts and fears subside. When Jesus walks the waters of the sea, how profound the calm!” — C. H. Spurgeon
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder. - Thomas Watson “To the believer, when his trials and temptations surround him, it is sweet to behold the person of our Lord Jesus Christ—to see Him bleeding, living, rising, and pleading for us.” — C. H. Spurgeon Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you. - Sinclair Ferguson
“Christ is the object of our life. As speeds the ship towards the port, so hastes the believer towards the haven of his Saviour's bosom. As flies the arrow to its goal; so flies the Christian towards the perfecting of his fellowship with Christ Jesus.” — C. H. Spurgeon
“The cross was the last judgement for Christ’s people.” — S. M. Baugh
“Christ is the solace of our life. All our true joys come rom Him; and in times of trouble, His presence is our consolation.” — C. H. Spurgeon
“O wayworn pilgrims in this wilderness of sin, you never get 'a morsel to satisfy the hunger of your spirits, 'except ye find it in Him!” — C. H. Spurgeon
I have had some wonderful seasons of soul-refreshing lately, unworthy of them as I have been.” J. Hudson Taylor
The world is so in love with lies that the truth feels like hate.
The Bible still calls all believers to be: • pro-life • pro-marriage between a man & a woman • pro-family
Sometimes, the reason people fall out of love with Jesus, is because they have fallen back in love with sin.
A Gospel that saves you, but doesn’t change how you live is a Gospel foreign to the Bible.
Typically, when you don’t feel like going to church is when you need it the most.
Believing in the “big man upstairs” is not the same as being saved by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and having the Holy Spirit of God living inside of you. “even the demons believe and tremble… (James 2:19).”
"Let not thy love for thy spouse in any way cool thy desire for Christ." -Oliver Cromwell, in a letter to his daughter Bridget.
"The preacher wants his heart stirred because he will then have some idea how the power and beauty of the gospel might be presented so that the heart of his brothers and sisters may also be moved." - Cornelius Plantinga Jr
"Truth, articulated with emotion, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, is truth that leads to action." - Tony Campolo
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith. John Calvin
"Though parental authority is the skeleton and backbone that structures the raising of children, the living flesh and blood of parenting is love." -Joel Beeke.
To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world. -Thomas Watson -
In the New Testament church, it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused. -Leonard Ravenhill -
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely. John Calvin
Our Lord having once loved me, he will love me to the end. - This fills me with joy unspeakable and full of glory. - I now walk by faith. - George Whitefield
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder. - Thomas Watson
There is no spiritual love for the true God until self is hated -A.W. Pink -
Any other warrant for the sinner's faith than the gospel itself, is false and dangerous. -C.H. Spurgeon
“It were a good strife among Christians, one to labor to give no offense, and the other to labor to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.” - Richard Sibbes. The Bruised Reed, Works 1:52. The conviction that Jesus inaugurated the messianic age enables the New Testament writers to preach Christ from the Old Testament, for this presupposition means that God’s redemptive history reaches its climax in Jesus. - Sidney Greidanus
The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God. - LBC 1689 Ch. 1 Para. 4
"It would grieve one to the heart to hear what excellent doctrine some ministers have in hand, while yet they let it die in their hands for want of close and lively application." --Richard Baxter
In many churches today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil.
The *world* is such that the more we have - the more we crave. The *world* cannot fill the heart of man. - Thomas Watson
If we deny the teaching of divine election, we must, partly at least, glory in ourselves. -George Whitefield - No...religion can possibly be honoring to God which sets aside Christ...and lays its foundations in wretched SELF. -Octavius Winslow -
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousness, our ease and our worldliness. -J.C. Ryle - Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains, or compromises. -A.W. Tozer -
To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts. John Calvin
When the bright star of purity shines in a Christian's heart, it distinguishes him from a formal professor -Thomas Watson -
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness. -Leonard Ravenhill -
God makes his voice heard in this world. Also during this time. He is deeply involved in our lives. He seeks us out and wants to lead us to peace and happiness. He does not condone our sins but imputed them to his son Jesus, who died as a righteous man for the unrighteous.
To ask anything contrary to His will is not prayer, but rank rebellion. -A.W. Pink -
The cross is the focus of all human history... All the ages meet in Calvary. Jesus is the central Sun of all events. -C.H.Spurgeon -
Some complain they find no benefit by the Word preached; perhaps they did not pray for their minister as they should. —Thomas Watson, 10 Commandments, Pg. 106
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - C.S. Lewis
"[The Lord] forbore to overthrow his antagonists in the days of his flesh, but in the time of his second coming he will break his foes in pieces with a rod of iron, he will dash them in pieces like potters’ vessels." - Charles Spurgeon
Being in the church no more makes you a Christian than being in a garage makes you a Cadillac!
“A Christian is not one who withdraws but one who infiltrates.” —Bill Glass
Our society is incredible... Ladies, apply for a CCW, learn to protect yourselves.. We live in a world where people do not help a victim... The article is disturbing...
Protect yourselves....
There can not be continued faith without reading the word of God!
It’s been said you have nothing to fear but fear itself, and that may be true. But truer still is the necessity of a healthy fear of God. “Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name” (Psalm 86:11). “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death” (Psalm 33:18-19). I want to feel for God that same fear I feel when teaching His word every day.
God’s Word can stand the challenges of skeptics or the doubts of believers.
Don't let the enemy hold you, hostage, to things that are not your fault.
If you continue to believe that your response is your spouse’s responsibility, then your happiness is contingent on how your mate treats you. If your spouse fails to love and respect you, then you are destined to be miserable. If she/he falls short of being the person you want, you are fated for sadness. You are destined to live on the Crazy Cycle. But, of course, none of this is true!
We are here for God’s designs, not for our own.
~Oswald Chambers~
The cross was not a tragic failure; it was a triumphant rescue.
~Vaughan Roberts~
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