Gene Getz, Sharpening the Focus of the Church: Experience has demonstrated beyond doubt that knowing does not automatically lead to doing.…A Christian can know many things about God without sensing His greatness, His power, His riches, and His grace, without being moved by the marvel and wonder of it all.…In short, it is possible to […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Knowledge (Getz)J. Oswald Sanders, Enjoying Intimacy with God: All spiritual ministry flows from the reality of our knowledge of God and the vitality of our fellowship with Him and His Son.
Read More Today’s Quote – Ministry (Sanders)John MacArthur, “Rekindling Your Love for Christ:” …the Christian life is about loving Christ. [It] is about loving him singularly. It is about loving him totally. It is about loving him sacrificially. It is about loving him obediently. It is about loving him worshipfully. It is about loving him in terms of service. It really […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Love for God (MacArthur)John Piper, “Will We Risk? Venturing in Ministry” (audio sermon only): Safety is a mirage. It ought to be. And yet our churches — American churches — are filled with people who only dream security, now and until they drop dead. Maximize safety. Maximize security. Maximize comfort. It’s the total opposite of the Biblical vision […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Safety (Piper)Al Mohler, in Preaching the Cross: We live in a world in which it makes sense not to worry. We have childproof caps on our medicine bottles. We have warnings on coffee cups from McDonald’s that we ought not to drive with the beverage in our lap. We have vaccines, antibiotics, MRIs, and CAT scans. […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Safety (Mohler)David Brainerd, Life and Diary: Some signs of godliness. The distinguishing marks of a true Christian, taken from one of my old manuscripts; where I wrote as I felt and experienced, and not from any considerable degree of doctrinal knowledge, or acquaintance with the sentiments of others in this point. He has a true knowledge […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Godliness (Brainerd)David Brainerd: I viewed the infinite excellency of God and my soul even broke with longings that God should be glorified. I thought of dignity in heaven, but instantly the thought returned, “I do not go to heaven to get honor, but to give all possible glory and praise.” Oh, how I longed that God […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Heaven (Brainerd)J. S. Bach: The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging.
Read More Today’s Quote – Music (Bach)Phillips Brooks: We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must understake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
Read More Today’s Quote – Spiritual Growth (Brooks)John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: If the inward essence of worship is satisfaction in God, then worship can’t be a means to anything else. You simply can’t say to God, I want to be satisfied in You so that I can have something else. Because that would mean you are not really satisfied […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worship (Piper)John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life: Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair because of the smallness of our accomplishment.
Read More Today’s Quote – Spiritual Growth (Calvin)A. W. Tozer, Jesus, Author of Our Faith: It has become popular to preach a painless Christianity and automatic saintliness. It has become part of our “instant” culture. “Just pour a little water on it, stir mildly, pick up a gospel tract, and you are on your Christian way.”
Read More Today’s Quote – Spiritual Growth (Tozer)D. Edmond Hiebert, Working with God through Prayer: The Holy Spirit is seeking to make the desperate world conditions an insistent call on our hearts for prayer. Prayer is the primary need. In the efforts of the churches today to respond to these vast needs, the most urgent need is not money, important as it […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Prayer (Hiebert)Andrew Murray, “Waiting on God:” If we truly set ourselves to wait upon God, we shall find that it is with Him that we are impatient, because He does not at once, or as soon as we could wish, to do our bidding. It is in waiting upon God that our eyes are opened to […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Patience (Murray)Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God: To pretend homage to God and intend only the advantage to myself is rather to mock God than to worship Him. When we believe we ought to be satisfied rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves and imagine that He should submit His own honor […]
Read More Today’s Quote – God’s Glory (Charnock)
Words of Grace 