Compare yourselves with the Word. See how the Scriptures and your hearts agree, how your dial responds to the sun. Are your hearts, as it were, a transcript of Scripture? Is the Word copied out in your hearts? The Word calls for humility; are you not only humbled, but humble? The Word calls for regeneration; [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Thomas Watson on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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Posted in Parenting, Quotes, Voddie Baucham, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, family worship, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Voddie Baucham, Worship on June 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If you are in a church that has resisted the temptation to professionalize worship, you are blessed. If not, my heart goes out to you. In any event, family worship will deepen your appreciation for biblical worship and make the corporate experience that much richer. However, I must caution you—family worship also [...]
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Posted in Encouragement, Quotes, tagged A W Pink, be ye separate, boldness, Discernment, Ecumenism, Holiness, purity, righeousness, Sanctification, separation, Syncretism, timidity, worldliness on June 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some of God’s dear people may suppose that it would be presumptuous to set themselves up as judges of what they hear or read—but that is a serious mistake, being both a false humility, and a shirking of duty. The Apostle rebuked the Hebrews because their senses (spiritual faculties) were not developed so as to [...]
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Posted in John MacArthur, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Neither Paul nor any other legitimate church leader in 2000 years has ever found it necessary (or even helpful) to use streetwise sex education—not as an evangelistic strategy, and certainly not as a means to sanctification for people already overwhelmed with sex-talk from a corrupt culture. Adopting the world’s obsession with sex and filthy [...]
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Posted in John MacArthur, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, C. J. Mahaney, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, John Piper, Mahaney, Piper, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on June 24, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Finally, it seriously overstates the involvement of John Piper and C. J. Mahaney to say they are “discipling” Mark Driscoll. In the first place, the idea that a grown man already in public ministry and constantly in the national spotlight needs space to be “mentored” before it’s fair to subject his public actions to biblical [...]
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Posted in J.C. Ryle, Quotes, tagged Christianity, Evangelism, God, Gospel, Grace, Jesus, Quotes on June 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Beware of manufacturing a god of your own: a god who is all mercy but not just, a god who is all love but not holy, a god who has a heaven for everybody but a hell for none, a god who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but [...]
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Posted in C.H. Spurgeon, Quotes, tagged be ye separate, compromise, conformity, do not be conformed to the world, godliness, Holiness, holy unto the Lord, Lukewarm, righteousness, Sanctification, worldliness on June 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Would that we could see the wall of separation between the church and the world made broader and stronger. It makes one sad to hear Christians saying, “Well, there is no harm in this; there is no harm in that”, thus getting as near to the world as possible. Grace is at [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most people will agree that they are sinners. However, few will readily admit that they are helpless sinners. There is a big difference.
- John R. Cross
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Daily Devotions, Devotion, Devotions, Faith, George Hammond, God, Gospel, Jesus, Puritan, Puritans, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Take notice, that it stands as a blot in the reputation of the Corinthians, that they were altogether for a gospel that should cost them nothing. Corinth was the most convenient, and so the most frequented, port of trade in all Greece. The inhabitants are said to have been very wealthy, proud, and voluptuous. [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Christianity, God, Jesus, Quotes on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shallow preaching that does not grapple with the terrible fact of man’s sinfulness and guilt, calling on “all men everywhere to repent,” results in shallow conversions; and so we have a myriad of glib-tongued professors today who give no evidence of regeneration whatever. Prating of salvation by grace, they manifest no grace in their lives. [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged church, God, heresy, Jesus on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The apostles of Satan are not abortionists and sex traffickers, but are for the most part ordained ministers. Thousands of those who occupy our post-modern pulpits are no longer engaged in presenting the fundamentals of the Christian Faith, but have turned aside from the Truth and have given heed unto fables. Instead of magnifying the [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Thomas Watson on June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Many a man’s knowledge is a torch to light them to Hell.
- Thomas Watson
1620 – 1686
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Posted in Quotes, tagged A W Pink, Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on June 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The man who is thoroughly devoted to the Lord does not need to wear some badge in his coat lapel, nor to proclaim that he is “living a life of victory.” It is still true that actions speak louder than words.
- A.W. Pink
1886 – 1952
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Posted in C.H. Spurgeon, Quotes, tagged Calvinism, election, Evangelism, predestination, sovereign grace on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A controversialist once said, “If I thought God had a chosen people, I should not preach.” That is the very reason why I do preach. What would make him inactive is the mainspring of my earnestness. If the Lord had not a people to be saved, I should have little to cheer me in [...]
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Posted in Parenting, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Parenting, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Tedd Tripp, Theology on June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You must equip your children to function in a culture that has abandoned the knowledge of God. If you teach them to use their abilities, aptitudes, talents, and intelligence to make their lives better, without reference to God, you turn them away from God. If your objectives are anything other than “Man’s chief end [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Go therefore, Martyrs, Missions, persecuted church on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliott
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Posted in C.H. Spurgeon, Quotes, tagged Christianity, Faith, God, Quotes on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Perseverance is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of God, but also a continuance in the same as long as life lasts. It is with a Christian as it was with the great Napoleon: he said, “Conquest has made me what I am, and conquest [...]
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Posted in Music, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John Wells, Music, Psalm, Psalms, Puritan, Puritan John Wells, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the ordinance of singing, we must not make noise, but music; and the heart must make melody to the Lord. Augustine complained of some in his time, that “they minded more the tune than the truth; more the manner than the matter; more the governing of the voice than the uplifting of the [...]
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Posted in J.C. Ryle, Quotes on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Divisions and separations are most objectionable in religion. They weaken the cause of true Christianity…But before we blame people for them, we must be careful that we lay the blame where it is deserved. False doctrine and heresy are even worse than schism. If people separate themselves from teaching that is positively false and unscriptural, [...]
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Posted in Quotes, Random Selections, tagged A W Pink, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, Grace, Jesus, Quotes on May 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“You will not come to Me–that you might have life.” John 5:40
“No one can come to Me–unless the Father who sent Me draws him.” John 6:44
Why is it, that no one can come to Christ unless he is ‘drawn’? The answer is, Because his wicked heart loves sin–and hates Christ! The heart of the every [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, Gary Gilley, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is very little understanding or desire for biblical truth and theology even among Christians. The Bible is not being expounded in many pulpits today. Christian radio saturates the airwaves with talk shows and psychology experts. Christian magazines aimed at the laymen are full of testimonies but devoid of solid spiritual food, and so [...]
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Posted in Paul Washer, Quotes, tagged Doctrine of Man, filthy rags, grace of God, Paul Washer, total depravity, works salvation on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One might clothe a leper in the finest white silk to cover his sores, but immediately the corruption of his flesh would bleed through the garment, leaving it as vile as the man it seeks to hide. So are the “good works” of men before God. They bear the corruption of the man who does [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged a babe in Christ, a desire for truth, born again Christians, Martin Lloyd-Jones, milk of the Word on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wanting to listen to the Word is inevitable if men and women are born again and have become Christians. A babe…has an instinct for milk. He wants it!…He is alive and wants the mother’s milk, and rightly so. The point is clear. One simply cannot be a Christian and have no [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The church of Christ can as little bear continual prosperity, as long adversity: a calm is sometimes as dangerous as a storm. Many are the temptations and snares of a prosperous condition: it breeds hypocrites; errors and heresies spring up like weeds in rank ground; professors are apt to grow remiss and careless, wanton [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged A W Pink, Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on May 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day “evangelist.” He announces a Savior from Hell, rather than a Savior from sin. So many are fatally deceived who wish to escape the lake of fire but have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness. The great Physician saves those [...]
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Posted in John MacArthur, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John MacArthur, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For stronger reasons than simple modesty, certain acts involving fornication, autoeroticism, and other things people commonly “do in secret” are shameful to talk about in any public context (Ephesians 5:12), much less a church service. They may be suitable subjects for a private counseling session, or the doctor’s office, or a college biology lecture, [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Bible, Christianity, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Theology on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our Lord’s solemn words, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish,” are as important today as when first uttered. No dispensational distinctions, important as these are in understanding and interpreting God’s ways with man, can alter this truth. No one was ever saved in any dispensation excepting by grace. Neither sacrificial observances, nor ritual [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, John Bunyan, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
- John Bunyan
1628 – 1688
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Posted in John MacArthur, Quotes on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings” Genesis 3:7
‘Adam and Eve’s famous attempt to make clothing of fig leaves perfectly illustrates the utter inadequacy of every human device ever conceived to try to cover shame. [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Bible, Blog, Blogging, christian, Christianity, Faith, God, Grace, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew Henry, miracles, Quote, Quotes, Religion on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Grace will bring a man to Heaven without working miracles, but working miracles will never bring a man to Heaven without grace.
- Matthew Henry
1662 – 1714
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Posted in John MacArthur, Quotes, tagged God's Will, Grace, Holiness, Missions, Sanctification, Spirit filled, Spirit led on April 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A Christian not yielded to the Spirit does not manifest the Christ-life. The Spirit of God has to permeate a life if that life is to radiate Him. We cannot do anything apart from being filled with the Spirit.
I have a glove. If I say to the glove, “Play the piano”, what does the glove [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Bible, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Jesus, Quotes, Religion on April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“God wants worshippers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. It is inconceivable that a sovereign and holy God should be so hard up for workers that He would press into service anyone who had been empowered regardless of his moral qualifications. The very stones [...]
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Posted in Creation vs Evolution, Quotes, Voddie Baucham, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Voddie Baucham on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If man is merely the result of a cosmic accident, there is no inherent dignity or value in human life. In fact, it was this type of evolutionary thinking that led to the atrocities of the Nazi regime in Hitler’s Germany. If there are races of people who represent a higher [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Richard Baxter, Theology on April 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For myself, as I am ashamed of my dull and careless heart, and of my slow and unprofitable course of life, so, the Lord knows, I am ashamed of every sermon I preach; when I think what I have been speaking of, and who sent me, and that men’s salvation or damnation is so much [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged AW Tozer, Gospel, Holy Spirit, Missions, Truth on April 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If the Holy Spirit were taken away from the New Testament church, ninety percent of what they did would come to a halt. But if the Holy Spirit were taken away from today’s church, only ten percent of what it does would cease.
– A.W. Tozer
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Posted in J.C. Ryle, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, J. C. Ryle, J.C. Ryle, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot see how any man deserves to be called “holy,” who willfully allows himself in sins, and is not humbled and ashamed because of them.
- J.C. Ryle
1816 – 1900
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Posted in C.H. Spurgeon, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, C.H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Spurgeon!, Theology on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Answering a student’s question, “Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?” thus, it is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.
Charles Spurgeon
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Posted in Quotes, tagged christian, church, God, Jesus, Quotes on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the blindness of the Church, grieved at the corruption in the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no [...]
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Posted in Paul Washer, Quotes, tagged Apostasy, Christianity, Evangelism, God, Jesus, Paul Washer, Quotes on April 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Their god is their belly, but, they look like sheep; how is that? How is it that they look like sheep? By their flattering, smooth speech that in an age of tolerance makes you think they are men most full of love.
They will never contradict, they will never create a scandal, they will never be [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, AW Tozer, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Encouragement, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Tozer on April 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
When God spoke out of heaven to our Lord, self-centered men who heard it explained it by natural causes: they said, `It thundered.’ This habit of explaining the Voice by appeals to natural law is at the very root of modern science. In the living breathing cosmos there is a mysterious Something, too [...]
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Posted in Missions & Martyrs, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Hudson Taylor, Jesus, Martyrs, Missionary, Missions, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.
- Hudson Taylor
1832 [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged A W Pink, A.W. Pink, Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on April 7, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Few things are so distasteful to the proud human heart as the truth that God does as He pleases, without consulting with the creature; that He dispenses His favors entirely according to His imperial will. Fallen man has no claims upon Him, is destitute of any merit, and can do nothing whatever to [...]
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Posted in C.H. Spurgeon, Quotes, tagged Faith, Jesus Christ, Grace, perseverance of the saints, Hope, Ekklesia, Holiness, preservation, be ye separate, come out of her, purity on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp” – Hebrews 13:13
Jesus, bearing His cross, went forth to suffer without the gate. The Christian’s reason for leaving the camp of the world’s sin and religion is not because he loves to be singular, but because Jesus did so; and the disciple must follow his [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The problem is not that Christians have disappeared, but that Christian faith has become so deformed. Under the influence of modernity, we modern Christians are literally capable of winning the world while losing our own souls.
– Os Guinness
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Posted in Missions & Martyrs, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Missionary, Missions, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, William Booth on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“‘Not called!” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for [...]
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Posted in Abortion, Creation vs Evolution, Quotes, Voddie Baucham, tagged Abortion, Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, infanticide, Jesus, murder, Peter Singer, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology, Voddie Baucham on March 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If man is merely a glorified single-celled organism run amok, he has no inherent worth, value, or dignity; ultimately man is then merely a cosmic accident, and the human community bestows any value he has upon him. It is not difficult to see how this would lead to a radical view on [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, D. L. Moody, DL Moody, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was quite refreshing one night to find in the inquiry room a young man who thought he was not worth saving, he was so vile and wicked. There was hope for him because he was so desperately in earnest about his soul. He thought he was worthless. He had a sight of himself [...]
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Posted in Missions & Martyrs, Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, K. P. Yohannan, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When God changes the heart and spirit, the physical changes also. If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel. It has done more to lift up the downtrodden, the hungry, and the needy than all the social [...]
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Posted in Quotes, tagged Apologetics, Bible, Blogging, Charles Leiter, Christianity, church, Faith, God, Gospel, Jesus, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Theology on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A man is either 100% righteous, or he is condemned. If a murderer is charged with seven counts of murder and only convicted of one, he’s still a condemned man! Reader, if you have even one sin that you have to pay for yourself, you will be in Hell forever.
- Charles Leiter
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Posted in Missions & Martyrs, Quotes, tagged AT Pierson, Missionary, Missions, the need for missions on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. There is little right giving because there is little right living, and because of the lack of [...]