To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.
– AW Tozer –
Centrality of Christ
Paupers in Spirit – Oswald Chambers
We will never receive if we ask with an end in view; if we ask, not out of our poverty but out of our lust. A pauper does not ask from any other reason than the abject panging condition of his poverty, he is not ashamed to beg. Blessed are the paupers in spirit.
– Oswald Chambers –
There Is No Life or Victory Outside of Jesus
There’s no life or victory outside the Person of Jesus Christ. Before God is able to fill us with His Spirit, we must be emptied of “self.”
– Unknown –
AW Tozer’s Rules for Self-Discovery
AW Tozer’s Rules for Self-Discovery:
1. What we want most
2. What we think about most
3. How we use our money
4. What we do with our leisure time
5. The company we enjoy
6. Who and what we admire
7. What we laugh at
– AW Tozer –
The Most Important Thing About Us – AW Tozer
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
– AW Tozer –
Where Is Our Focus? – John Owen
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
– John Owen –
God Rewards Those Who Diligently Seek Him – Al Whittinghill
He is ever the Rewarder of those who “diligently seek Him” not the mere casual inquirer.
– Al Whittinghill –
Arminian, Calvinist, or Born Again? – John Newton
If a man is born again, hates sin, and depends upon the Savior for life and grace, I care not whether he be an Arminian or a Calvinist. If he be not born again, he is nothing, let him be called by what name he will.
– John Newton –
Write and Preach Under the Cross – George Whitefield
Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.
– George Whitefield –