D. Edmond Hiebert, 1 Peter: Amid the crushing burdens or the burning trials that often befall the saints, it is the cross and the resurrection of Christ that remain the unshakable demonstration of God’s love and concern.
Read More Today’s Quote – God’s Love (Hiebert)John Flavel, A Puritan Golden Treasury: If you neglect to instruct them in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will sprout.
Read More Today’s Quote – Parenting (Flavel)Charles Spurgeon, “The Minister’s Fainting Fits” (in Lectures to My Students): Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy. […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Discouragement (Spurgeon)John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Self-Denial (Calvin)J. Oswald Sanders, “The Revolutionary Leadership of Jesus:” The fundamental lessons that greatness comes only by way of servanthood, and that first place in leadership is gained only by becoming everybody’s slave, must have come as a great and unwelcome shock [to the disciples]. It is noteworthy that only once did Jesus say that He […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Servanthood (Sanders)J. I. Packer, in Discipleship Journal: “We … need to recover a true understanding of human life, a sense of the greatness of the soul. We need to recover the awareness that God is more important than we are, that the future life is more important than this one, that happiness is the promise for […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Perspective (Packer)Al Mohler, The Disappearance of God: …we are required to see beauty fundamentally as a matter of truth to which taste is accountable, rather than a matter of taste to which truth is accountable. Thus, it violates Scripture, and indeed the character of God, to call something “beautiful” that is not good, or “true” that […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Beauty (Mohler)John MacArthur, The Book on Leadership: A true leader is someone who demonstrates to everyone around him that their interests are what most occupy his heart. A real leader will work hard to make everyone around him successful. His passion is to help make the people under his leadership flourish. That is why a true […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Leadership (MacArthur)George Whitfield, quoted in Christians You Should Know: [In a response to some criticism:] Let my name be forgotten, let me be trodden under the feet of all men, if Jesus may thereby be glorified.…Let us look above names and parties; let Jesus be our all in all.…I care not who is uppermost. I know […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Servanthood (Whitfield)Elisabeth Elliott, in Christianity Today: We have proved beyond any doubt that He means what He says — His grace is sufficient, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. We pray that if any, anywhere, are fearing that the cost of discipleship is too great, that they may be given to glimpse that […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Christ’s Sufficiency (Elliott)D. A. Carson, The Cross and the Christian Ministry: …many of us…have unwittingly become more like Corinthian Christians than like Pauline (that is, biblical!) Christians. Many of us are well-to-do and comfortable, with little incentive to live in vibrant anticipation of Christ’s return. Our desire for the approval of the world often outstrips our desire […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Approval (Carson)Blaise Pascal, Pensées: Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence. (HT: CQOD)
Read More Today’s Quote – Christ’s Adequacy (Pascal)Jay Adams, The Journal of Modern Ministry (Fall 2006): One factor hindering proper training in this area is the increasing social acceptance of childhood rebellion, and teenage rebellion in particular. Many parents have been duped into thinking that their children will inevitably rebel and that nothing can be done to stop it. This causes hopelessness […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Adolescence (Adams)Kris Lundgaard, Through the Looking Glass: We are all brothers and sisters, whether or not we want to be, because we are human beings. It’s a fact of life and has nothing to do with choice. With the Lord Christ it was different (see Hebrews 2:11, 14-15). So that he might rescue us from death, […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Jesus Christ (Lundgaard)Howard Eyrich in The Journal of Modern Ministry: Seven key commitments for resolving marital conflict Committed to divorce being a non-option Speak the truth in love Take responsibility for thoughts and actions Seek and grant forgiveness Commit to repentance Practice the one anothers of Christian relationships Practice spiritual disciplines
Read More Today’s Quote – Resolving Conflict (Eyrich)
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