Don't feel that because you haven't lived as you should have for some 10, 20, 30, 40; or however many years you have lost your opportunity. Get in the race. There is still a place for you. There are opportunities that God will give you.
One drop of Christ’s blood is worth more than heaven and earth.
~Martin Luther~
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou
Think about when we will stand before God one day, and He becomes the ultimate judge. There are two different judgments. To the Christian, we stand before the Bema Seat of Christ, to the non- believer, the White Throne Judgment.
The White Throne Judgment, in Revelation 28:11-15, is for those who have died without Christ and have gone to hell.
Maya Angelou
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination
One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
Sometimes the church becomes our stage where we play “Let’s Pretend.” But as the audience applauds our performance, the Director’s voice grows faintly dim. Let us do the word and not be a hearer only deceiving our selves. If you are not growing, ever changing, you are a statue, a book end, only collecting dust. Be the vessel that God has planed you to be.
The promises of God are part of our spiritual weaponry. We can stand victorious in battle by the promises of God, just as the Apostle Paul did. "Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you…And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them" (Acts 18:9-11).
Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us of this work-day garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of incorruption. Blessed are those who "sleep in Jesus."
Charles Spurgeon
The grass is always greener where you water it.
There is no such cruelty to men’s souls as clemency to their sins.
Today set self aside and if it does not come to pass after you gave it your all be thankful it did'ent......
Unless we are like minded, it would be safe to say your ways are not the same as mine and most assuredly not God's way. But God has put us in the world to be a light in darkness. Jesus said in John 17, He was not taking us out of the world but He would protect us in it.
THAT YOU MAY KNOW
H.A. Ironside (1876-1951) was a turn-of-the-century American Bible teacher, pastor, and author. An observer recounted this story of Ironside ministering to an elderly man unsure of his salvation.
The man said to Ironside, "I will not go on unless I know I'm saved, or else know it's hopeless to seek to be sure of it. I want a definite witness, something I can't be mistaken about!"
Ironside replied, "Suppose you had a vision of an angel who told you your sins were forgiven. Would that be enough to rest on?"
"Yes, I think it would. An angel should be right," the man replied.
"But suppose on your deathbed Satan came and said, 'I was that angel, transformed to deceive you'," Ironside continued. What would you say?"
The man was speechless. Ironside then said that God has given us something more dependable than the voice of an angel. He has given His Son, who died for our sins, and He has testified in His own Word that if we trust Him all our sins are gone.
Ironside read 1 John 5:13, "You may know that you have eternal life." Then he said, "Is that not enough to rest on? It is a letter from heaven expressly to you." God's Spirit used that to bring assurance to the man's heart.
God's promises had guaranteed that Israel would be delivered from bondage in Egypt. Here, God promises to fight for His people, assuring them of victory in battle as they entered the Promised Land.
My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.
Embrace the Essence of Your beauty... The core of Your Spirit will Soar and radiantly SHINE!
The decisions we make, good or bad, affect the people around us, the people we love. We can lead them to a closer walk with the Lord, or we can lead them away from the Lord.
We will be held accountable for our sins before the Lord, but even more if we cause one of God’s people to be led away from Him.
We are called to be faithful.
Only One Way....There is "No Other" When God Judges Me I know I'll Be Blessed...Thank U Jesus
It's inevitable that you will disagree when you spend your life together. But it's important that you never stop talking and working toward unity.
Marriage takes two, yes, but it also requires that you're both engaged emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually in fighting for your union.
Love is not fleeting, feelings are. Love is many things but fleeting is not one of them.
Love says "I will stay by your side when no one else will." Love says "I will walk with you through any circumstance, even when the outcome is uncertain." That's love.
How do we know this is love? Jesus.
Jesus loves us despite our sin. He loves broken people, and he brings us close despite our being unloveable.
Not only did we do nothing to earn Christ's love, we actually do things daily that would push him away from us.
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach. • Timothy Keller
If God's grace was enough for our salvation why do we live as though it is not enough for our circumstances.
Sheep aren't driven. They are led. Be an example to the flock.
You don't fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what. • Timothy Keller
When faced with hypocritical people, we are not meant to JUDGE them, but to help GUIDE them.
“Love is the key to the entire therapeutic program of the modern psychiatric hospital.”
Dr. Karl Menninger
Unity. Unity is unmistakable and irreplaceable in a healthy marriage. God's word says "they shall become one flesh". Not two people with a common goal, but one flesh. Combined. Unified.
If God can turn a rock into a pool of water, if God can make water flow from flint, then he can transform our hearts even when they seem to be impervious to his grace.
Sin doesn't cost Christians their salvation, any more than good acts make the unsaved righteous. It has to do with our character. Whose do we have? Has our old nature been replaced with the new one we gained in Christ?
We need to make a conscious decision every day that we are going to live a life of forgiveness and mercy.
“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving of life.”—George MacDonald
“Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.”—Tim Keller
Like Jesus, we have the privilege and calling of shining God’s light, God’s love, and truth, into the darkness around us.
One of the many things I've learned over the years is that our God isn't just the God of big ministries and five-year plans -- he is the Savior of you and me -- one person at a time. Sometimes He will interrupt your big plans because He has "one" person He wants you to talk to. The problem is we have to slow down our pace as well as our assumptions or we will miss our "real" purpose.
we need to make time for the Lord. It is then that we can hear Him -- when we've cleared the buzz of our own thoughts and activities from our minds.
There are times in leadership when we find ourselves isolated. Sometimes we find ourselves there of our own making. We’ve had to make some hard decisions with which everyone else strongly disagrees, and we feel alone. Sometimes it’s the result of others’ actions. We find ourselves marginalized politically or even have our organization “right-sized” out of existence. Where once we had colleagues and superiors who supported us, we now find ourselves isolated.
The Christian life is a maimed life initially, but in Matthew 5:48 Jesus gave us the picture of a perfectly well-rounded life— “You shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” #myutmost
At the end of our lives it will not matter if we behaved righteously for man's eyes.. to be a follower of any group and or movement.. It will not matter if I have the world's proud possessions and have lost my way in the world's ideals..
It will MATTER MOST that I followed the LORD's Word and exemplified his character and glorified HIM through my actions and my behavior.. It will MATTER MOST that I have salvation.
Where does the church fit into your priorities (and I'm not just talking about the worship service on Sunday morning)? At the top or near the bottom? Does someone have to put you in a "headlock" to get you to attend a church function (other than worship)? Why? What has taken priority over God's Word and His family for you?
Look around you. People are so empty and miserable; they do not know the love of God. Despite your tribulations, God will use them for His glory, as you share with others the love, peace, grace, and comfort of God.
“A Christian man is the freest lord of all and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to everyone.” —
Martin Luther
The enemy is coming after everything we hold dear. Children, biblical marriage, biblical truth, and biblical morals. He will try to normalize sin, make Christianity look like hate, and scare us to stop talking.
Now more than ever, at least in my lifetime, we have to be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit so everything thing we do is in truth and love!!
Personal sin never stays personal. It will always affect others.
One of the many things I've learned over the years is that our God isn't just the God of big ministries and five-year plans -- he is the Savior of you and me -- one person at a time. Sometimes He will interrupt your big plans because He has "one" person He wants you to talk to.
"WHO YOU'RE BECOMING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHO YOU'VE BEEN. STOP ALLOWING YOUR PAST TO KEEP YOU IN PRISON, YOUR FUTURE NEEDS YOU FREE."
"STAY FAITHFUL AND PERSEVERE THROUGH TO THE END. REMEMBER, GOD GAVE JOSEPH A DREAM, BUT IT TOOK ALMOST 25 YEARS TO HAPPEN...BUT IT HAPPENED FOR HIM...AND IT WILL HAPPEN FOR YOU TOO! DON'T GIVE UP, GIVE OUT, OR GIVE IN! BE PATIENT AND HANG IN THERE!"
Don't put your Pastor on a pedestal where he can be knocked off. Put your Pastor on a Prayer List where he can be lifted up. - author unknown
People keep asking, "do you think Jesus is coming back soon? Here is my answer: I don't know, but I do know that today is a lot closer than yesterday was. And, here is my question: Are you ready?
We may be good at sinning, but Jesus is better at saving.
The world is so in love with lies that the truth feels like hate.
A local church that doesn’t focus on reaching the future will have no future.
Humans were intentionally created by God, not accidentally evolved from apes.
FAITH HAS NO PLACE IN THE PUBLIC ARENA is lie.
There is no debate about it… Jesus is King.
“Jesus is King. You didn’t vote Him into office and you can’t vote Him out of office. You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign. He is King!” - S. M. Lockridge
The Holy Spirit doesn’t contradict the Holy Bible.
Fifty Shades of Grey (first released in 2015) has resurfaced, and is currently back in the Top 10 on Netflix. My sisters, who claim to follow Jesus, if you’re praying for your husbands and sons to have clean eyes and pure hearts, but you’re also consuming this trash… You need to know that’s a very mixed and hypocritical message. Purity in what you watch is not only for men. It’s for you, too.
I’m often asked by Christians, “should we use someone”s ‘preferred pronouns’.” Here are 4 reasons why I don’t use, or ask for “preferred pronouns.” 1) It’s tied to an obvious cultural agenda. This was never a thing, until very recently. 2) As Christian leader, how am I going to be a steward of the truth, while at the exact same time affirming a lie? 3) When will the shift take place? Some people will say we do it for the “spiritually lost.” However, what if they do become a believer? At what point in the discipleship process will you have to tell someone that you actually never believed in their “preferred pronoun” to begin with? Isn’t it better to lovingly stick to the truth from the beginning, so it doesn’t seem like a “bait and switch” down the road? 4) Others in the ministry are watching. If I compromise there, then I have to also ask, “Am I discipling people to believe the whole movement is okay?” Be kind. Be loving. Don’t look to argue. We can be welcoming without being affirming. Look to win people with Spirit and Truth, because we can’t win them with confusion and compromise.
"Be Careful of Your Need to Feel Approved, Validated and Supported! Some of the smallest Pats On the Back, Leave the BIGGEST Knife Wounds!"
They're Not Mad Because of Where You're Going; They're Mad Because of Where You Came From, and YET God is Still Using You.
"GOD CAN ADMINISTER HEALING THAT MEDICINE CANNOT!"
SOME OF THE GREATEST LEADERS DON'T HAVE TITLES, THEY HAVE TO-DO LISTS. GOD, WHAT DO YOU NEED ME TO DO NEXT? HERE AM I, USE ME.
IF PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE IN THE PAST VICTORIES, LET THEM.
"When GOD Fights For YOU, Your ENEMY is ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED!"
"The Devil Doesn't Care About How BIG Your Church Is, He Cares How INFLUENTIAL It Is. Focus On the SUBSTANCE of Your Church, Not It's SIZE."
"DON'T LET YOUR CLOTHES SPEAK HIGH FASHION, WHILE YOUR CHARACTER SPEAKS LOW BUDGET!"
"IT'S OKAY TO LOOK OUT FOR OTHERS, JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON'T OVERLOOK YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS!"
BE SO CONFIDENT IN KNOWING WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE THAT YOU'RE COMFORTABLE EATING ALONE UNTIL YOU FIND THE RIGHT TABLE.
WHEN PEOPLE CAST STONES AT YOU, KEEP THEM AND BUILD AN ALTAR. GOD WILL PROTECT YOU AND TAKE CARE OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME!
"REMEMBER: YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO GOD, NOT YOUR NETWORK!"
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” - C.S. Lewis
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” - C.S. Lewis
“There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice.” - C.S. Lewis
“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ.” - C.S. Lewis
“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” - C.S. Lewis
“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.” - C.S. Lewis
The gospel message hurts our pride in life-giving ways, and for that I praise God. Rosaria Butterfield
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself. A.W. Pink
Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross. Charles Spurgeon
We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. Elisabeth Elliot
The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God. Cornelius Van Til
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves. A.W. Tozer
Gay is no longer just one of many vocabulary terms. Gay is not a terminology choice. Gay refers to our nation’s reigning idol. Rosaria Butterfield
The blood of Christ does not make an ally with the sin it crushes on the cross, ever. Rosaria Butterfield
When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet. Charles Spurgeon
God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain. Jerry Bridges
“We often do not strive against God’s supremacy with open force but by secret murmuring against His providence.” — George Swinnock, The Blessed and Boundless, 85.
“No sin can be crucified either in heart or life unless it first be pardoned in con-science... If it be not mortified in its guilt, it cannot be subdued in its power.” — William Romaine
“The contract or covenant between us and God already reads ‘Paid in full by the blood of Jesus.’ Only when we grasp God's grace are we free to serve him for his own sake, not for reward.” — Tim Chester, You Can Change, 91.
“God does whatever He wills to do, and He never consults with us.” — George Swinnock, The Blessed and Boundless God, 83
“Sanctification is the progressive narrowing of the gap between confessional faith and functional faith.” — Tim Chester, You Can Change, 75:
“God, and God alone, is man’s highest good.” — Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God, 1.
It is not enough to find truth in truth, but you must find 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. —Puritan Thomas Manton, Sermon Upon Psalm 119:93, Works 7:438
"Because as God has the glory of every attribute, so have Christians the comfort of every attribute in this way of salvation" - William Whitaker. "How are We Complete in Christ?"
Scripture commands believers to meditate on three areas: 1. God (Ps 27:4; 63:6) 2. God's Word (Josh 1:8; Ps 1:2) 3. God's works (Ps 143:5; 145:5) The beginning, middle, and end of all thought should be God, our highest end and our highest joy.
“Without the existence of a Church, or of a body of believers, as contradistinguished from believers individually, very much of what is contained in the Bible would be unintelligible, and without practical application.” — James Bannerman, The Church of Christ
“Let us expect our children to know the Lord. Let us from the beginning mingle the name of Jesus with their ABC.” — Charles Spurgeon
"A clear understanding and appropriation of the gospel, which gives freedom from sin’s guilt and sin’s grip, is, in the hands of the Holy Spirit, a chief means of sanctification.” –– Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace, 103.
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ. —Calvin Sermons on the Epistle to the Ephesians
"A lot of pastoral work these days is teaching on the importance of church attendance." - Mark Dever
“According to the Bible, only Jesus' obedience earned God's forgiveness for sinners (Romans 5:18-19).” — Cliff McManis, Christian Living Beyond Belief, 204.
I am not interested in the amount of doctrine you know if it means you do nothing. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Exposition of Romans 10: Saving Faith, Pg. 12
“For the Christian there is a unity between theology, doxology, and practice— doctrine, doxology and duty.” — R. Kent Hughes
“The Bible in memory is better than the Bible in the bookcase.” — Charles Spurgeon
He who counts the stars and calls them by their names is in no danger of forgetting his own children. Charles Spurgeon
God did not tell us to follow Him because He needed our help, but because He knew that loving Him would make us whole. Irenaeus
Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him. John Chrysostom
Believers are made kings, though they are not to have the dominion till the morning of the resurrection. Matthew Henry
Let my soul take refuge, beneath the shadow of your wings; let my heart,this sea of restless waves, find peace in You Oh God! Augustine
He made Him who was righteous to be a sinner, that He might make sinners righteous. John Chrysostom
Run from pride, for it is a passion more treacherous than any other. John Chrysostom
Most scriptures speak to us; the Psalms speak for us. Athanasius
You never abandon what You have begun. Augustine
The ultimate goal of the human mind is to know God. Augustine
It is a good fall when a man falls on his knees. Charles Spurgeon
The more you read the Bible and the more you meditate upon it, the more you will be astonished by it. Charles Spurgeon
There is no ideal place for us to serve God except the place he sets us down. Charles Spurgeon
One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. C.S. Lewis
The God whom we serve does not see it good for us to be rich, but I trust He will give us what is needful and best. John Newton
Lay hold upon the Word. Keep it, treasure it. Charles Spurgeon
Kill hope in a man, and you have killed the man's best self. Charles Spurgeon
“I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called Calvinism, but which are surely the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up into your very soul, till it saturates your heart.” — Charles Spurgeon
“I have no hope, save only in this belief: that Jesus Christ, in my place, bore both my punishment and sin.” — Charles Spurgeon
“When asked, 'What is more important: Prayer or Reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: Breathing in or Breathing out?'” — Charles Spurgeon
“There is nothing little in God; his mercy is like himself; it is infinite. You cannot measure it.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Pray that you would grow downward: that you may know more of your own vileness, more of your own nothingness, and so be rooted in humility.” — Charles Spurgeon
“We are not saved by obedience, for obedience is the result of salvation. We are saved by faith because faith leads us to obey.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Are you very thirsty? Draw from the Bible, for it is full.” — Charles Spurgeon
“The power of prayer can never be overrated. If a man can but pray he can do anything.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Any kind of faith in Christ which does not change your life is the faith of devils. It will take you where devils are, but will never take you to heaven.” — Charles Spurgeon
“I would rather speak five words out of the Bible than 50,000 words of the philosophers.” — Charles Spurgeon
“If I should preach to you the atonement of our Lord Jesus, and nothing else, my ministry would not be unprofitable.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly.” — Charles Spurgeon
“The old covenant says, 'Keep the law and live.' The new covenant is, 'You shall live, and I will lead you to keep the law.'” — Charles Spurgeon
“Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching: where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing.” — Charles Spurgeon
“He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.” — Charles Spurgeon
“The law will outlast the creation. The Old Testament is as sacredly guarded as the New.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Think of heaven without Christ? That is the same thing as thinking of hell.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, to think of heaven without Christ! It is the same thing as thinking of hell.” — Charles Spurgeon
“I was like a man in a bog. The more he struggles, the more he sinks. No good can result from efforts made apart from faith in Jesus.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Until God rejects Christ, he cannot reject his people.” — Charles Spurgeon
“Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging.” — Charles Spurgeon
“It is well to praise the Lord for his mercy when you are in health, but make sure that you do it when you are sick, for then your praise is more likely to be genuine.” — Charles Spurgeon
"I have often, in times of frightful depression of spirit, reached down my Bible, and within a few minutes been able to leap for joy of soul." — Charles Spurgeon
"Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell." — Charles Spurgeon
"Do you search the Scriptures or do you only skim them? To some the Bible is uninteresting and unprofitable, because they read too fast." — Charles Spurgeon
"If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act." — Charles Spurgeon
"May we ever feel an influence drawing us Christward. If it be so, our weakness will all vanish, for his strength will be remembered." — Charles Spurgeon
“A sermon comes with far greater power when it is plainly the very word of God—not a lecture about the Scripture.” — Charles Spurgeon
"If I hate sin because of the punishment, I have not repented of sin; I merely regret that God is just." — Charles Spurgeon
"The true value of a sermon must lie, not in its fashion and manner, but in the truth which it contains." — Charles Spurgeon
"We do not enter the pulpit to talk for talk's sake: sermons should have solid, substantial, and abundant doctrine." — Charles Spurgeon
"If the Lord shall break your heart, consent to have it broken; asking that he may sanctify that brokenness of spirit to bring you in earnest to a Savior." — Charles Spurgeon
"If God is with us to sanctify us and sustain us, the worst of circumstances shall work our good." — Charles Spurgeon
"What a blessed God is ours in Christ Jesus! A sea of never-failing delights, a river of boundless joys, forever flowing on." — Charles Spurgeon
"The justice of God can bring no account against the believer, for he is completely forgiven." — Charles Spurgeon
"Giving your heart to Christ is not the gospel. Salvation comes from something that Christ gives you, not something that you give to Christ." — Charles Spurgeon
"Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing." — Charles Spurgeon
"You cannot sin as much as God can forgive. If it comes to a battle between sin and grace, you shall not be as bad as God shall be good." — Charles Spurgeon
"The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is mercy for a sinner, but there is no mercy for the man who will not own himself a sinner." — Charles Spurgeon
"Men will never become great in theology until they become great in suffering." — Charles Spurgeon
"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves." — Charles Spurgeon
"Anything is a blessing which makes us pray." — Charles Spurgeon
"When Jesus is in the soul, the idols leave their thrones. He loves us out of the pit of idolatry." — Charles Spurgeon
"He is not the Christ of a caste or a class, but the Christ of all conditions of men. His blood is shed for many sinners, that their sins may be remitted." — Charles Spurgeon
"It is better to be Christ's patient than a Doctor of Divinity." — Charles Spurgeon
"I may know all the doctrines of the Bible, but unless I know Christ, there is not one of them that can save me." — Charles Spurgeon
"When you are afraid of dying, trust in the living Savior, for in him are life and immortality." — Charles Spurgeon
"Sin needs quenching in the Savior's blood, not concealing under the garb of religion." — Charles Spurgeon
"When I stand at the foot of his cross to be washed, I bring nothing but sin." — Charles Spurgeon
"The sum total of all human knowledge is but as a drop of the bucket compared with the wisdom of God." — Charles Spurgeon
"If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive his power, you must see how he works by his Word." — Charles Spurgeon
"When we hear a sermon with no Christ in it, the preaching is spoiled and the presentation of the gospel is entirely ruined." — Charles Spurgeon
"The Bible is a star without a speck, a sun without a blot, a light without darkness, a moon without its paleness." — Charles Spurgeon
"To live as though tomorrow might be the judgment day, that is the style of living which is the best of all." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is no saint here who can out-believe God. God never out-promised himself yet." — Charles Spurgeon
"I wish that our ministry might be tied and tethered to the cross. I have no other subject to set before you but Jesus only." — 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
"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
"A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world." — Charles Spurgeon
"Trials teach us what we are. They dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of." — 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
"It is a blessed thing when darkness below gives us an eye to the light above." — Charles Spurgeon
"A true father, such as fathers should be, has a tender love for all the little ones." — Charles Spurgeon
"Far be it from us to seek a crown of honor where our Lord found only a crown of thorns." — Charles Spurgeon
"Though you have shifted your intentions and your will, yet he has not once swerved from his eternal purpose, but still has held you fast." — Charles Spurgeon
"Do not, like some people, be afraid of speaking plainly and broadly concerning the consequences of sin." — Charles Spurgeon
"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self." — Charles Spurgeon
"If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you." — Charles Spurgeon
"If my compass always points to the North, I know how to use it. If my Bible is always right, it will lead me right, and so I shall follow it." — Charles Spurgeon
"Do not philosophize. Do not sit down and bother your poor brain. Just believe Jesus as you would believe your father." — 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
"The gospel is not a reward for health, but a medicine for sickness." — Charles Spurgeon
"I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from his almighty love." — Charles Spurgeon
"It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world." — Charles Spurgeon
"Christ did not die because men were good or would be good, but died for them as ungodly." — Charles Spurgeon
"The maker of the stars is at the same time the physician for broken hearts and wounded spirits." — Charles Spurgeon
"There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow." — Charles Spurgeon
"The offended God himself in infinite compassion broke the silence and came forth to bless his enemies." — Charles Spurgeon
"We must never cease to pray. No case is hopeless while Jesus lives." — Charles Spurgeon
"Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving." — Charles Spurgeon
"Preach Christ's life as much as you will, but never apart from his death. For it is by his blood that we are redeemed." — Charles Spurgeon
"Depend upon it, you will never go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God." — Charles Spurgeon
"Even in the holiest deeds we do there is still sin, but even then God is still forgiving." — Charles Spurgeon
"We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'" — Charles Spurgeon
"They who seek Christ are already being sought by him." — Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon
You can impress people at a distance, but you can impact them only up close. Howard Hendricks
No one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection. —Calvin
"I am profoundly convinced that the greatest need of the Church today is a return to expository preaching." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christians, who have the Spirit of God living within them, have an inward interpreter who helps them to understand what the Bible means. David Jeremiah
God’s working [in us] is not a ground of laziness, but for more strict observance.
I am thine… for I have sought thy precepts. —Psalm 119:94 “It is not words, but affections and actions that must prove us to be the Lord’s; then we are his when we seek to please him in all things. Judas was Christ’s in profession, but the devil’s in affection.” —Thomas Manton
I am thine… for I have sought thy precepts. Psalm 119:94 “It is not words, but affections and actions that must prove us to be the Lord’s; then we are his when we seek to please him in all things. Judas was Christ’s in profession, but the devil’s in affection.” —Thomas Manton
Psalm 119:94: I am thine…for I have sought thy precepts. “It is not words, but affections and actions that must prove us to be the Lord’s; then we are his when we seek to please him in all things. Judas was Christ’s in profession, but the devil’s in affection.” —Thomas Manton
I am thine…for I have sought thy precepts. Ps. 119:94 “It is not words, but affections and actions that must prove us to be the Lord’s; then we are his when we seek to please him in all things. Judas was Christ’s in profession, but the devil’s in affection.” —Thomas Manton
“Every man must be settled without doubt that he was the man that crucified Christ..his sins were the nails, spears, and thorns that pierced Him.” William Perkins
When the Gospel changes your life, you go from social issues to spiritual. John MacArthur
"We must never cease to pray. No case is hopeless while Jesus lives." Charles Spurgeon
Set your faith upon Christ for the killing of your sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in light of Christ’s great work, and you will die a conqueror. You will, through the good providence of God, live to see your lust dead at your feet. John Owen
The sins of the godly go nearest to God’s heart. Others’ sins anger God; these grieve Him. The sins of the wicked pierce Christ’s sides, the sins of the godly wound His heart. Thomas Watson
If a person doesn't love the church, they don't love Jesus. Voddie Baucham
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart. Francis Schaeffer
"It's not enough to learn the truth, we must also love and live the truth." Steven Lawson
“If you are not born again, all your outward reformation is nothing. You have shut the door, but the thief is still in the house.” Thomas Boston
If your life is angelic abroad and devilish at home, you must suspect that it is at home that you are what you really are. Charles Spurgeon
There is nothing more unworthy than to see a people bold to sin — and the preacher afraid to reprove them. William Gurnall
A right heart turns to Christ as the compass-needle turns to the north. It looks to Christ for daily peace mercy and grace. J.C. Ryle
God answers prayers not because we are good, but because he is good. -A.W. Tozer -
You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart. -C.H. Spurgeon -
“The Lord is my Shepherd, I have need of nothing else” Jeremiah Burroughs
"So long as infant baptism is practiced in any Christian church, Popery will have a door set wide open for its return. It is one of those nests which must come down, or the foul birds will build in it again." -Charles Spurgeon.
Christians should walk so as to convince the world, and make them wonder at the beauty, majesty, and strictness of their lives. —Puritan Thomas Manton, Sermon upon Psalm 119:94, Works 7:442
You harden carnal men when you profess yourselves to be God’s peculiar people, and there is no difference between you and others. —Thomas Manton, Works 7:442
This is important saints, we must know that our salvation was not an afterthought, it was part of God's design since before the world began, that we would be His, that there would be a people called by His name, that He would redeem and save. Voddie Baucham
The state of true believers, compared with that of others, is always blessed. - John Newton
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Do you say, But the time came when I was willing 2 receive Christ as my Savior? True, but it was the Lord who made you willing! -A.W. Pink
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction -John Bunyan -
No man is a good preacher who is not willing to lay his future on the line every time he expounds the Word. He must let his job & his reputation ride on each & every sermon or he has no right to think that he stands in the prophetic tradition. -Tozer
A woman that carries her child in her womb but nine months, what a tender affection hath she to it! We lay in the womb of God’s decree from all eternity, and therefore we are very dear to God, namely, as we are his by election. — Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 7:449
"The word is nothing without the Spirit, and only animated & quickened by Him." -Richard Sibbes.
"Let’s all preach Jesus more in our sermons. The Person, the work, and the glories." -Matthew Johnston
Have we received Him Himself not as our Guest, but as the Owner, Proprietor and Keeper of the temple He has built to be “an habitation of God through the Spirit”? AB Simpson
Christ’s love is in itself, and in the account of all the saints, more valuable and desirable than the best entertainments the world can give. —Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible, 3:868
You that are children of God are not left in the power of the enemy. Being redeemed, “The Lord will be a wall of fire all around you” (Zech. 2:5). You are garrisoned by angelic strength. You are led by unfailing wisdom. Spurgeon
Remember, where there’s real fruit, there’s seed in it for more fruit. Wiersbe
That intercession [of Christ], abiding and unwavering, explains in part, why those justified “can never fall from the state of justification.” —Richard B. Gaffin Jr. , Word and Spirit, Pg. 559
To disbelieve or disobey any word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God. – W. Grudem
Though sinful thoughts rise, they must not reign." — Charles Spurgeon