sermonindex
Aug 6, 2007
If you missed these like I did, check it out. These are very cool.
If you missed these like I did, check it out. These are very cool.
I can tell how much God you have by how much entertainment you need." - A.W. Tozer
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints. - A.W. Tozer
E.M. Bounds
Happy are they who have no righteousness of their own to plead and no goodness of their own of which to boast. Humility flourishes in the soil of a true and deep sense of our sinfulness and our nothingness. Nowhere does humility grow so rankly and so rapidly and shine so brilliantly, as when it feels all guilty, confesses all sin, and trusts all grace. "I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me." That is praying ground, the ground of humility, low down, far away seemingly, but in reality brought nigh by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. God dwells in the lowly places. He makes such lowly places really the high places to the praying soul.
Let the world their virtue boast,
Their works of righteousness;
I, a wretch undone and lost,
Am freely saved by grace;
Other title I disclaim,
This, only this, is all my plea,
I the chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for me.
An oneliner I stumbled across not long ago.
Rikkert Zuiderveld: 'The greatest difference between christians and the world around them is the building where they spend their time sleeping on sunday.'
"it is more important that God be glorified then that I be saved!"
A.W Tozer
A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.
Baxter, Richard
Ouch, hmmhmm! Very convicting! Thanks!
:-(
We need more speaking to God about men, than speaking to men about God.
-Mother Cobb
Consider this, Christian: that all your trials
and troubles, calamities and miseries, crosses
and losses which you meet in this world are all
the hell you shall ever have!!
THOMAS BROOKS :-D
sermonindex wrote:I can tell how much God you have by how much entertainment you need." - A.W. Tozer
We need apostolic renewal
When the popular worship leaders arent there because they are beautiful or hip
When the teachers arent the intelligent eloquent personalities
When technology isn’t our main weapon like internet tv computers electronic sound systems and buildings
When our congregations are wide and deep
When our prayers are not five minutes and they are not just for comfort but for travail
When our weapons are spiritual and not carnal
When people give not to get
When we don’t give messages of gentleness to those who are lukewarm
When we are not only abiding but abounding
When the world hates us instead of loves us
When we are martyred instead of being tax deductible
When revival lasts and isn’t just an emotional flush
When excuses become exempt
When faith is fullness and not fairy tales
When we trust and not just believe
When we repent and not just regret
When we are anointed and not just excited
When we are filled and not just fundamental
-David Robert Tennant
"The Holy Spirit originated the Alliance in order to produce in modern times an attested copy of the Church of apostolic times. At whatever cost we must hold to the original type of this movement as revealed by the Spirit through the Word… Only He who gave us the pattern, the blessed Holy Spirit, can keep us true to that pattern. I have written frankly out of my heart, for I greatly desire to see the Alliance preserved in an increasing and sustained vitality of spiritual life, an efficiency of ministry and scripturalness of statement until Jesus comes."
-A.B. Simpson
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