Centrality of Christ

May 23, 2015

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!

– Leonard Ravenhill –

May 17, 2015

The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere … any additional rules made to govern men’s conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

– John Wycliffe –

April 21, 2015

So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God.

– Oswald Chambers –

April 8, 2015

There was a day when I died, utterly died—died to George Mueller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will!—died to the world, its approval or censure —died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friend,— and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

– George Muller –

March 27, 2015

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground and your eyes on the throne.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

March 24, 2015

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

– Martin Luther –

February 26, 2015

The Christian is the man who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, but in Jesus Christ alone. He knows that God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him guilty, even when he does not feel his guilt, and God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him not guilty and righteous, even when he does not feel that he is righteous at all. The Christian no longer lives of himself, by his own claims and his own justification, but by God’s claims and God’s justification.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
from Life Together, 1939

February 24, 2015

That death was not on His own account. His humanity had no need to die. He might have lived on and have seen no death, if He had so willed. He had committed no offense, no sin, and, therefore, no punishment could fall upon Him. Every pang upon the cross was substitutionary; for you, the sons of men, the Prince of Glory bled, “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).

– Charles Spurgeon –
from God Loves You

January 12, 2014

If we would ripen in grace, we must love [to be] near Jesus – in His presence.

– CH Spurgeon –