Centrality of Christ

November 2, 2014

If your ministry is full of Christ, it is a ministry that God can bless. “Oh,” said a Brother to me, only today, speaking of a certain minister, “I could not hear him, for there is nothing of Christ in his sermons.” Where there is nothing of Christ, Brothers and Sisters, there is nothing of unction, nothing of savor—and a man is quite right not to attend such a ministry as that. Leave Christ out of your preaching and you have taken the milk from the children! You have taken the strong meat from the men. But if your objective as a teacher or preacher is to glorify Christ and to lead men to love Him and trust Him, why, that is the very work upon which the heart of God, Himself, is set! The Lord and you are pulling together—and God the Holy Spirit can set His seal to a work like that! Is it not a marvelous thing that we should be workers together with God?

– Charles Spurgeon –

November 1, 2014

Jesus Christ is so precious that if Heaven and earth were put together, they could not buy another Savior. When God gave His Son to the world, He gave the best that Heaven had. Take Christ out of Heaven, and there is nothing for God to give. Christ was God’s All, for is it not written, “In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily”? Oh, precious gift of the whole of Deity in the Person of Christ!

– Charles Spurgeon –

October 25, 2014

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

– Thomas Brooks –

October 22, 2014

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

– Elizabeth Elliot –

October 17, 2014

We have to do with One who is Lord of all power and might, whose arm is not shortened that it cannot save, nor His ear heavy that it cannot hear; with One whose unchanging Word directs us to ask and receive that our joy may be full, to open our mouths wide, that He may fill them. And we do well to remember that this gracious God, who has condescended to place His almighty power at the command of believing prayer looks not lightly on the blood guiltiness of those who neglect to avail themselves of it for the benefit of the perishing …
– Hudson Taylor –
from: Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret

October 11, 2014

God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called The Word.

– AW Tozer –

October 8, 2014

Get into the habit of saying, “Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.

– Oswald Chambers –

September 24, 2014

It will help us greatly, and save us from much confusion, if we keep constantly before us this fact, that God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only, namely, by showing us more of his Son. 

– Watchman Nee –

September 19, 2014

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

– John Piper –