SPIRIT AND SUBSTANCE

The Word of God apart from the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ is intellectualism; the crucifixion of Christ apart from the Word of God is sensationalism. The former has no spirit; the latter has no substance.

-- Jon Cardwell

THE COMPLIMENT

The devil is in the compliment, the voice of approval, acceptance, satisfaction, comfort, convenience, the illusion of control; he entertains, thrills, subtly intrigues, interests, all leading to the relative good but never to the Best, all ending in the seemingly right but never quite not-wrong, all centering on self but never on Christ.

Al Hartman, A FB friend.

Matt Redman The Wonderful Cross

How Great Is Our God

NOT THE DRUDGERY

A holy self-denying, cross-bearing life, is not the drudgery of a slave, but the filial, loving obedience of a child; it springs from love to the person, and gratitude for the work of Jesus; and is the blessed effect of the spirit of adoption in the heart.

---Octavius Winslow

Worthy Is the LAMB by Hillsong with Lyrics

Jesus Messiah - Chris Tomlin [ worship video with lyrics ]

Blessed Be Your Name

SHORTLY

I entreat you to bethink yourself seriously what a vain world this is, and how shortly it will leave you to a cold grave, and to everlastng misery, if you have not a better treasure than it.

---Richard Baxter

EMPTY

"Faithful preaching will render the minister unpopular, and will 'empty' churches--not fill them."

-- A.W. Pink

UNCOMPROMISING

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when He realized that for Him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion.

Ernest Fremont Tittle.

MOTHER OF JOY

Faith is a Mother of Joy. Without faith the soul shall be barren, and no joy will delivered. Anyone can be joyful in Zion, but God grants a joy in the caves. In this way it will be evidenced that the joy of the soul is not from the creation, but from the Creator. May we rejoice to KNOW HIM even in the fellowship of His sufferings.

Assumption

The Atheist assumes his mind is competent, but uses his own mind to make that deduction. So if an incompetent mind declares itself to be competent, then the soul recieves a validation from an invalid instrument and is thereby decieved. Yet the deception is not only from the invalid instrument, but from the individual himself who even began with such an assumption in the first place.

PARADOX

The Christian experiences a strange paradox throughout life: Extreme Contentment in Christ, yet Extreme Ambition for Christ.

LAUGHS

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

- Samuel Chadwick

SPIRIT-FILLED

"The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles"

- Samuel Chadwick

(great point, yet this is not to be cannon powder for Charismatics though)

ADDICTION

Too many say they want to go "deeper" but are just feeding their knowledge addiction, not learning life transformation.

(Tim Brister posted a RT @edstetzer:)

BELONG HERE

"Were any of us asked seriously, what it is that troubles us, we must refer it to one of these heads:— either we want strength or power, vigour and life, in our obedience, in our walking with God; or we want peace, comfort, and consolation therein. Whatever it is that may befall a believer that doth not belong to one of these two heads, doth not deserve to be mentioned in the days of our complaints."

-John Owen

Police quiz Christian pensioner over gay beliefs

AT THE POINT

J.m. Vergara "At what point do you deal with sin? Not at the point of behavior—because then it’s too late—but at the point of desire."

---John MacArthur