Centrality of Christ

God Became the Weakest Thing We Know – Oswald Chambers

The essential nature of Deity is holiness, and the power of God is proved in his becoming a Baby. That is the staggering proposition the Bible gives—God became the weakest thing we know. … The tremendous revelation of Christianity is not the Fatherhood of God, but the Babyhood of God – God became the weakest thing in His own creation, and in flesh and blood He levered it back to where it was intended to be. No one helped Him; it was done absolutely by God manifest in human flesh. God has undertaken not only to repair the damage, but in Jesus Christ the human race is put in a better condition than when it was originally designed.

– Oswald Chambers –

How to Live Victoriously – Samuel Logan Brengle

Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.

– Samuel Logan Brengle –

Chief Desire in Writing – JC Ryle

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of men; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

– JC Ryle –
(1816-1900)

Give Me 100 Preachers – John Wesley

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.

– John Wesley –

August 17, 2015

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

August 15, 2015

I’ve been bought by the labors of that great Shepherd who came from afar to gain me as His bride.  Lead on, Lord, whatever God’s command is or wherever He may lead, I am now ready to go.

– Jim Elliot –

August 4, 2015

I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.

– Charles Spurgeon –

August 3, 2015

Remember that Christ Himself is better than any of His blessings; better than the power, or the victory, or the service that He grants. … He is God’s best: we may have Christ; yielding to Him in such completeness and abandonment of self that it is no longer we that live, but Christ that liveth in us. Will you thus take Him?

– Charles G. Trumbull –
from Victory in Christ