Here are a few great quotes / thoughts that I pray will both comfort and / or challenge you in your walk with Christ this week…

One of my heroes in the faith is the late Dr. Carl F. H. Henry. Someone asked him toward the end of his life (back in the 1990’s) this question:

What causes you the most concern today as you view the Body of Christ?

“I suppose the needless competition and conflict, the lack of coordination and cooperation—which are really reflections of sin, compromise, and self-seeking at the expense of the whole body. These blunt the cutting edge of the Church as the regenerate Body of Christ in the world. I think evangelicals tend to institutionalize their differences swiftly, and then those differences contribute to conflict in the evangelical community. I am not interested in the least common denominator of evangelical commitment, but I do think that we need some sense of our commonalities and of what we ought to be doing together. We must not simply emphasize our differences.”

“I would rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas. Good ideas are good. God ideas change the course of history!” (Mark Batterson – Sr. Pastor of National Community Church in Washington D.C.)

“Good preaching should both…

  • sting and sing
  • wound and heal
  • convict and comfort.

Much preaching today is only focused on the ‘sing, heal and comfort’ part and is therefore not presenting the ‘whole counsel’ of God’s Word.” (D. A. Carson)

“When I consider my crosses, tribulations and temptations, I shame myself almost to death thinking of what they are in comparison to the sufferings of my blessed Savior, Jesus Christ.” (Martin Luther)

“The principle is simple: when words are most empty, tears are most apt.” (Max Lucado)

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

“Christian growth doesn’t happen first by behaving better, but by believing better – believing in deeper ways what Christ has already secured for you in salvation.” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“When you understand that your significance and identity is anchored in Christ, you don’t have to win – you’re free to lose.” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“When you are united to Christ, then all that is Christ’s becomes yours: Access to God and affection from God can never be lost.” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“The gospel explains success in terms of giving, not taking; self-sacrifice, not self-indulgence; going to the back, not getting to the front.” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“The gospel empowers us to live for what’s timeless, not trendy – to follow Jesus even when it means going against what’s fashionable.” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“Because of Christ’s finished work on the cross, sinners can have the approval, acceptance, security, freedom, love, righteousness, and rescue that they long for.” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“The vertical indicative (what God has done for me) always precedes horizontal imperative (how I am to live in light of what God has done for me).” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“We need God’s gospel rescue every day and in every way because we are, in the words of John Calvin, ‘partly unbelievers until we die.’” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“Grace can be defined as unconditional acceptance granted to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.” (Tullian Tchividjian)

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

 

 

 

 

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