Today’s Quote – One Another (Harris)

Josh Harris, Stop Dating the Church: The longer I’m a Christian, the more aware I become that I cannot live the Christian life on my own. My individual and direct relationship with God through Jesus is the greatest privilege and He is truly all I need — and yet God in His wisdom has created […]

Today’s Quote – Faithfulness (DeYoung)

Kevin DeYoung, Why We Love the Church: Our part is to do our part.…God will not reward churchgoers, or His churches for that matter, for being big and influential, or hip and culturally with-it, but for being good and faithful (Mt. 25:23). That’s all God asks of us — be good and faithful, which is […]

Today’s Quote – Family (Edwards)

Jonathan Edwards, “A Farewell Sermon:” Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules.

Today’s Quote – Christianity (Guinness)

Os Guinness, The Dust of Death: Modern Christianity is crucially weak at three vital points. The first is its compromised, deficient understanding of revelation. Without Biblical historicity and veracity behind the Word of God, theology can only grow closer to Hinduism. Second, the modern Christian is drastically weak in an unmediated, personal, experiential knowledge of […]

Today’s Quote – Ministry (Petersen)

Jim Petersen, Church Without Walls: The history of the church, from God’s perspective, is a history of the Holy Spirit using little people. It consists of a mustard seed here and there, some yeast hidden in dough or a seed in the ground. Not many wise or influential people are included. Rather, it has been […]

Today’s Quote – Church (Guinness)

Os Guinness, No God But God: The overwhelming majority of Americans, more than 85%, identify themselves as Christians. But if the statistical indicators of faith are up, the social influence is down, and the reasons are becoming plain. There has been a carelessness about Christian orthodoxy, a corruption of Christian obedience, a vacuum of Christian […]

Today’s Quote – Family (Younts)

John Younts, Everyday Talk: The purpose of the family is 1) to maintain and nourish the one-flesh relationship between husband and wife, and 2) to prepare children to leave the home of their parents and establish their own homes.

Today’s Quote – Church (Wells)

David Wells, The Bleeding of the Evangelical Church: [In today’s church,] The importance of theology is eclipsed by the clamor for management skills, biblical preaching by entertaining story-telling, godly character by engaging personality, and the work of the ministry by the art of sustaining a career. I believe that these are all unhappy exchanges.

Today’s Quote – Church (Swindoll)

Charles Swindoll, Rise and Shine: The depth of a church is determined by its quality of worship and instruction.…the breadth of a church is determined by its commitment to fellowship and evangelism.

Today’s Quote – Church (Beecher)

Henry Ward Beecher, quoted in Dynamics of Spiritual Gifts (McRae): The church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones, a nursery for the care of the weak ones, a hospital for the healing of those who need assiduous care.

Today’s Quote – Reconciliation (Chafer)

Lewis Sperry Chafer, Major Bible Themes: The concept in reconciliation is not that God changes, but that His relationship to man changes because of the redeeming work of Christ. Man himself is forgiven, justified, and raised spiritually to the level where he is reconciled to God. The thought is not that God is reconciled to […]

Today’s Quote – Peace with God (Piper)

John Piper, What Jesus Demands from the World: Our peace does not come from our removing the God of wrath from our thinking, but from his removing his wrath from us. He has done that by sending Jesus to die in our place so that, for everyone who believes in Jesus, God’s wrath is taken […]

Today’s Quote – Reconciliation (Schaeffer)

Francis Schaeffer, The Mark of the Christian: …it is in the midst of a difference that we have our golden opportunity. When everything is going well and we are all standing around in a nice little circle, there is not much to be seen by the world. But when we come to the place where […]

Today’s Quote – Reconciliation (Morris)

Leon Morris, The Atonement: We cannot get a glimmering of an understanding of what the New Testament understands by Christ’s atoning work unless we see that God is hostile to every evil thing and every evil person.…It is only when [this] root cause is identified and dealt with that there can be a genuine reconciliation. […]

Today’s Quote – Reconciliation (Stedman)

Ray Stedman: The ministry of reconciliation — Originates with God, not man Is personally experienced Is universally inclusive Is without condemnation Is delivered by men Is owned and accredited by God Is voluntarily accepted Achieves what otherwise is impossible Is experienced moment by moment.