Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel Of Jesus Christ!
The only people who can ever walk in victory over the world are born-again believers in Jesus Christ. "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world." We desperately need the overcoming grace of God, because of the earthly enticements that the devil can use against us. "For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world" (1Jn2:16)
Jesus was an Orthodox Jew who did things in an unorthodox way, He ate with the sinners and unwanted, He went through Samaria, a place despised by the Jews because they where half Jew and half Gentile, He healed om the Sabbath, went around the dead, and took 40 stripes not 39 and then to top it off He said Father forgive them for they know not what they do.
Letting go of sin must be a daily activity; it's difficult and trying to live by faith and to walk in the Spirit is a daily lifestyle of the believer. It's simple and focused, but nobody said it would be easy.
We are not merely to serve Christ;
we are to be like Him.
~Derek Copley~
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 John 5:4-5)
The enemy of our souls would love to devour our lives. "Your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8). We can enjoy protection from the devil through faith. "Resist him, steadfast in the faith" (1 Peter 5:9). When the enemy cannot devastate us by direct attack, he still desires to pull us down into defeat, using the pitfalls and temptations available to him through the entire world system. Bob Hoekstra
We don’t contemplate the blessing of water until we’re thirsty, or the nourishment of bread until hungry.
Dr. Ed Young
It is absolutely certain that the world will bring to us all many troubles and trials. Our fully sufficient hope is the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Parenting God’s way means that we follow His plan regardless of the choices our children make...
Your obligation as a leader is to take people to a place they can't get to on their own.
None are so near falling as those who are most confident in their own standing.
~William Burkitt~
When we step out in faith, encouragement can make all the difference for good and
discouragement can make all the difference for evil.
Most Christians don’t recognize strongholds. But we don’t have to be among them. Our weapons are from God and have divine power to demolish strongholds. Isn’t that what you want? Keep God at center stage. Turn off the computer and open the Bible more! And turn to God for help.
If you let one thing go, you are going to let other things go and eventually you are going to find yourself in a big mess. You cannot agree with people sinning against the Lord. The alternative to discipline is disaster.
~Vance Havner~
It's important how we view God, because that will determine how we view life. Let me take it a step further: our view of God will dictate how we live. It will determine the decisions we make. In fact, there are no areas of our lives that are not impacted by how we view God.
Empty your cup into others that you may be filled!
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
People need to stop blaming the liberals and stop living in sin so Revival can happen.
Jon Scheu
"You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you."
~ Richard Needham ~
The Holy Spirit––the third person of the trinity, convicts us of sin, righteousness and judgment (John 16:8). Jesus must not be rejected, but to resist the person and work of the Holy Spirit leads to blasphemy.
He never sins against the Holy Ghost that fears
he has sinned against the Holy Ghost.
~William Bridge~
Leaders need to remain teachable. They must be able to learn from what other people have to say. They may fail to receive from different teachers the Lord is using, and they become critical. Honestly, it does not matter who is speaking. Why? It is the Word of God, and God’s Word never comes back void.
Raul Ries~
We must remain teachable. We must be able to learn from what other people have to say by the Spirit.
If we are serving just to be serving and doing just to be doing to say I am busy we will get burned out after a season. You will be most effective when you change your attitude, be content, and serve God right where you are using the gifts He has given you.
God calls us to be his servants, all work serves his purpose and therefore has ultimate meaning, even when we can’t make sense of it.
So much of marriage is learning to move ahead as one... learning how to move through hardship, hurt, and frustration. Couples begin growing apart the moment they stop growing together.
Knowing the Bible is one thing.
Having a relationship with the Author is another.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: “The cross, with all its mighty paradoxes, is a spectacle which makes anything that you can think of in history, or anything that you can imagine, simply pale into insignificance.”
Sí se puede. (Yes I Can)
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
~Billy Graham~
Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. We must constantly strive to keep our integrity intact. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
~Billy Graham~
The gift of eternal life is insanity to some yet revelation to others.
A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties, and performance.
~John Bunyan~
Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.
~Billy Graham~
PROOF OF MATURITY IS EXERCISING THE DISCERNMENT, DISCIPLINE, AND WISDOM TO KNOW THAT NOT EVERYTHING THAT ENTERS YOUR MIND NEEDS TO EXIT YOUR MOUTH.
Your birthday should always be a reminder that your mama was pro-life.
Our kids don’t need perfect parents. They need parents who know how desperately they need the Saviour themselves. Paul Tautges
Envy is a denial of providence. Stephen Charnock
“Happy were it, if puzzled and perplexed Christians would turn their eyes from the defects that are in their obedience, to the fulness and completeness of Christ’s obedience; and see themselves complete in Him, when most lame and defective in themselves.” —Flavel, vol. 1 p. “…[Christ] loves his people more than they can love him, or love themselves.” —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:450 "The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises to God.” –– Richard Sibbes
God is more willing to pardon sin than we are to sin. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:456
“We should have a double eye: one eye to see that which is amiss in us… Another eye of faith, to see what we have in Christ, our perfection in him, and glory in this our best being such a one whereby God esteems us perfect, and undefiled in him.” — Richard Sibbes
“God is incapable of receiving instruction because of His immense wisdom—His ability is so high that there is nothing for Him to learn.” — George Swinnock
As mysticism increases; Sola Scriptura decreases. – Mike Abendroth
God’s word is the ultimate criterion of truth and right. it is the judge of what reasoning is valid and sound. The ultimate test of a scholar is whether his work agrees with Scripture. And Scripture determines what evidence are to be believed. - John Frame
It is possible to know Bible stories, yet miss the Bible story. - Edmund Clowney
"Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin." — Charles Spurgeon "Atonement is the brain and spinal cord of Christianity. Take away the cleansing blood, and what is left to cleanse the guilty?" — Charles Spurgeon
"You may think you can live very well without Christ, but you cannot afford to die without him." — Charles Spurgeon "To rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly." — Charles Spurgeon "Infinite power shall stoop that you may lean upon its shoulder." — Charles Spurgeon
"Neither nineteen centuries, nor nineteen thousand centuries, can make the slightest difference in the truth of the gospel." — Charles Spurgeon
"Some Christians are very curious, but not obedient." — Charles Spurgeon
"I am afraid we are too much like the world for the world to hate us." — Charles Spurgeon "There is not one out of all our trials which we could have afforded to have been without." — Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "Seek not happiness first; seek Christ first, and happiness shall come after." — Charles Spurgeon
God will pardon the greatest sins. Your highest sins are the sins of men, but the mercy offered is the mercy of God. —Stephen Charnock, Works 5:456
"If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine." -John Owen
Ears to hear and eyes to see— both are gifts from the Lord.
We teach what we know we reproduce who we are.
"The trials which befall us, are the very trials which we need." -James W. Alexander.
Legalism is not an error of Christianity—it’s a different religion altogether.
“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 "Such is the goodness of our sweet Savior, that He delights still to show His strength in our weakness." - Richard Sibbes. The Bruised Reed, Works 1:86.
Believing on the Lord Jesus for salvation is more pleasing to God than all obedience to His Law. —Puritan Robert Traill, See Works 1:244-6
No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him. -Thomas Adams - It was pride that changed angels into devils - it is humility that makes men as angels. -Augustine -
“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” — C.S. Lewis
Compulsion and Christianity! Why the very terms are at variance - the ideas are incompatible... Christianity is the law of liberty! - William Wilberforce
"To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ." -Jerry Bridges.
...prayer calls faith into exercise, and nothing from us is so honouring and pleasing to Him as the confidence of our hearts. -A.W. Pink - Christ doesn't imitate the world in an attempt to win the world... Christ stands alone. -A.W. Tozer
"the believer uniting with Christ, has communion with Him : in which he launches forth into an ocean of happiness, is led into a paradise of pleasures, and has a saving interest in the treasure hid in the field of the gospel, the unsearchable riches of Christ." - Thomas Boston
“The law includes all the commandments of God, and the gospel includes all the promises of salvation in Christ… The law tells us how we should live but doesn't give us the power to do it. The gospel gives both the power and the right motivation.” — Simonetta Carr
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