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Patient endurance is enriching. Satan tempts us that he might bring out the worst in us, but God permits it that he might bring out the best in us. Wiersbe

The Lord loves us too much to let us get by with those things that will destroy us. Because we belong to Him, He will always bring the warnings and the lessons we need to keep us from trouble. Chuck Smith

J E S U S I S O U R H O P E

The Gospel changes identities: from lost to found from orphan to child of God from wrecked to redeemed from empty to filled with the Spirit from captive to free from broken to new creation from bankrupt to co-heir from aimless to ambassador from sinner to saint from dead to alive

Come on, somebody!!!

Most of the people in prison had uninvolved fathers. Most of the people who identify as LGBTQIA+ had uninvolved fathers. Most of the people who are homeless had uninvolved fathers. Most of the people who are in drug rehabs had uninvolved fathers. If you want to change the world, help fathers be changed. That’s not a patriarchal belief. It’s a Bible truth.

In ministry leadership: Maybe, it’s time to stop looking for “studs & rockstars”, and start looking for those who are faithful and called.

“If the Lord is your friend, who is he that can harm you? All is well.” — Charles Spurgeon

“The present age is so flippant that if a man loves the Savior he is called a fanatic, and if he hates the powers of evil he is named a bigot.” — Charles Spurgeon “I cannot err when I have God's Word in my lips.” — Charles Spurgeon “God forgives the ungodly, not because they are good, but because he is good.” — Charles Spurgeon

“The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride. The gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.” — Charles Spurgeon “Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners: forgiveness is for the guilty.” — Charles Spurgeon "Our crusty tempers and sour faces will never be evangelists." — Charles Spurgeon

"Let the Bible be your standard classic—your last appeal in matters of contention." — Charles Spurgeon

"The longer you live, the more powerful you will find the gospel to be." — Charles Spurgeon "Christ shall drown our sins in the Red Sea of his blood." — Charles Spurgeon "A smile from Jesus in the morning will be sunshine all the day." — Charles Spurgeon "Let a person pray. The more the better." — Charles Spurgeon

"I have a great need for Christ. I have a great Christ for my need." — Charles Spurgeon "We not only ought to pray more, but we must." — Charles Spurgeon "Any attempt to approach God without the mediator is an insult to his Son." — Charles Spurgeon "Nothing but the Lord’s love could have delivered us." — Charles Spurgeon

"What was true in Paul's day is true now, for the Bible does not change as years revolve." — Charles Spurgeon "If hunger brings us to our knees it is more useful to us than feasting." — Charles Spurgeon "The shortcomings of others are no excuses for us." — Charles Spurgeon "Jesus wore my crown, the crown of thorns; I wear his crown, the crown of glory." — Charles Spurgeon

"The Bible is a book which we may continually meditate, and yet not exhaust its contents." — Charles Spurgeon "The minister who does not pray over his work is a vain and conceited man." — Charles Spurgeon

"If Christ rejects you, tell us of it. If he refuses you, let us hear it. There was never such a case yet." — Charles Spurgeon "Lay hold on Jesus, and keep hold on Jesus." — Charles Spurgeon

"Calvary is the birthplace of heaven." — Charles Spurgeon "Turn to the Bible, for there is in it the very word you need." — Charles Spurgeon "We gain nothing from the love of those who do not love God." — Charles Spurgeon "That Christ should die for me remains the greatest of all miracles in my esteem." — Charles Spurgeon

"You can never weave a righteousness that shall cover your nakedness before God." — Charles Spurgeon "Those little feet in the manger shall tread on the serpent's neck and crush his head." — Charles Spurgeon

“There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’” - C.S. Lewis

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” - C.S. Lewis

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” - C.S. Lewis

“What kind of book is unchangeable and so reliable that proof of a vital doctrine can be advanced by pointing out the tense of a verb? Only a book in which the words are God’s words, not the words of human beings.” — Lawrence O. Richards “The law is therefore necessary to give knowledge of sin, so that proud man, who thought he was whole, may be humbled by the discovery of his own great wickedness, and sigh and pant after the grace that is set forth in Christ’ — Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will, 288. “Let the dogs bark. It is their nature to. Go on preaching Christ!” — Charles Spurgeon

"Beware of both undevotional theology and untheological devotion" - Mike Reeves

“Where Christ does not rule, sin does.” — J. I. Packer The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones #Church #Christianity “As long as sins are unknown, there is no room for a cure, and no hope of one; for sins that think they betoken health and need no physician will not endure the healer’s hand.” — Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will, 288.

“… when guilt comes on the conscience, as it will, lie down again beneath the righteousness of Jesus. Never lose sight of this. Jesus must be seen by the Father instead of our guilty soul.” — Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray M’Cheyne, 303.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. - Augustine

"Stop looking for the perfect church. Go worship a perfect God today with a congregation of flawed people who need grace as much as you do." —Nate Pickowicz

“Incredible as it may seem, there are still people who believe what they read in the newspapers.” — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The newspapers are liars about the fundamental problems of life, they do not know them, indeed they are partly the cause of the present muddle. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Kingdom of God, Pg. 139-40

Incredible as it may seem, there are still people who believe what they read in the newspapers. —Banner of Truth, Issue 275

To part with sin is as hard as cutting off a right hand or plucking out a right eye. But it must be done. The parting must come -J.C. Ryle - The man who preaches the Word of God has an inexhaustible supply to draw from. -A.W. Pink -

If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little saviour". Martin Luther

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and begin over again after each stumble because the Christlife is inside him, repairing him all the time. C.S. Lewis The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end. John Bunyan

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me. -Hudson Taylor - You shall never make a missionary of the person who does no good at home. -C.H. Spurgeon -

He that hath not Him, hath neither beginning of good, nor shall have end of misery. -John Owen - An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. -A.W. Tozer -

"If Christ justifies you He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins." Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different. We must always keep the church under the Word. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Blessed be God that we fight with an enemy already vanquished by our Lord, and that we have a sure promise of victory. The Lord is our banner. - John Newton Right, too rigid...hardens into wrong. -Samuel Davies -

Trust in God, and ye need not fear. -Jonathan Edwards -

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up -J.C. Ryle - Because God is holy, acceptance with Him on the ground of creature doings is utterly impossible -A.W. Pink -

Thank God for a historical faith, thank God for a gospel that is based upon facts. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent. -Adoniram Judson - The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. -C.H. Spurgeon -

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us -John Owen - Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. -A.W. Tozer -

Back in the good ole days we didn’t have these issues.” What “good ole days”? Ever since the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden there has been sin, evil, and the need of a Savior.

The church is like a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power. —Puritan Thomas Manton Those that were once glorious on earth, & are now triumphing in heaven, did look upon the mercy of God as the most powerful argument to preserve them 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘪𝘯, & to fence their souls 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯, & not as an encouragement 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯. —Thomas Brooks, Works 1:30

To argue from mercy to sinful liberty, is the devil’s logic. This is wickedness at the height, for a man to be very bad, because God is very good. —Thomas Brooks, Works 1:43 A little hole in the ship sinks it; a little stab in the heart kills a man; and a little sin, without a great deal of mercy, will damn a man. —Thomas Brooks, Works 1:22

Should the child that is proclaimed heir of a crown be troubled for want of a rattle? And why should a Christian that is heir apparent to a heavenly crown be troubled upon the want of worldly toys? —Thomas Brooks, Works 1:151 Satan’s device to draw the soul to sin is, to present the bait, and hide the hook. —Thomas Brooks Those that care not for the Word are strangers to the Spirit. —Richard Sibbes, Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations, 48c

Men must not think to dance and dine with the devil, and then to sup with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. —Thomas Brooks, Works 1:14

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy-seat, and that keeps Christ and the soul divided… 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸. —Puritan Thomas Brooks, Works 1:11 Christ, the Scripture, your own hearts and Satan’s devices, are the four prime things that should be first and most studied and searched. —Thomas Brooks, Works 1:1 On dying to worldliness: “Believers build their tombs where others build their tabernacles.” —William Secker, Nonsuch Professor, Pg. 133 If God we’re not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy. —Thomas Brooks, Puritan Golden Treasury, Pg 295

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved. Charles Spurgeon It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. Richard Baxter

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever. John Calvin Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go. Charles Spurgeon

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Matthew Henry None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. Matthew Henry

Faith of itself could not contribute a penny to salvation, but it is the purse which holds a precious Christ within itself. It holds all the treasures of divine love. Charles Spurgeon

A man’s contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer. Charles Spurgeon

Our salvation is bound up not in something intangible and impersonal, but in a person-in Jesus Christ.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much. George Whitefield

Tell me, you that say all things under the sun are vanity, if you do really believe what you say, why do you spend more thoughts and time on the world, than you do on Christ, heaven, and your immortal souls? —Puritan Thomas Brooks, Works 1:65

The best antidote to self-righteousness is self-examination. An examination that compares you to Christ and His holy Law.

“As soon as we think God owes us mercy, we’re not thinking about mercy anymore.” — R.C. Sproul

If you preach doctrinally, some may call you an Antinomian; if you preach practically, others may call you a legalist. But go on, my brother: this is a kind of dirt that won’t stick. —Andrew Fuller (1754-1815), Works 1:485

NEVER TRUST ANYONE WHO JUMPS SHIP EVERY TIME THE BOAT ROCKS!

"TOO MANY ARE DEEP ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YET SHALLOW IN REAL LIFE.

DON'T ALLOW PEOPLE WITH TUNNEL VISION TO PROOFREAD YOURS!

Jesus Christ is our Lord, Savior, Redeemer, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Wonderful, Counsellor, The Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, The Lord, who is and who was and WHO IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY!