Ministry

My Greatest Need – Robert Murray McCheyne

Minister of the gospel, say that of your congregation, “The greatest need for my people is my personal holiness.” Teacher say that of your class, “The greatest need for my Sunday School class is my personal holiness.”

– Robert Murray McCheyne –

How We Are Called to Speak – Oswald Chambers

When Paul mentions the matter of conversation, he says, “See that your speech is edifying”— good building-up stuff, not sanctimonious talk, but real solid stuff that makes people stronger in the Word of God, stronger in character, stronger in practical life.

– Oswald Chambers –

Keep Close to My Bible – Charles Spurgeon

I have been called an Arminian Calvinist or a Calvinistic Arminian and I am quite content so long as I can keep close to my Bible. I desire to preach what I find in this Book whether I find it in anybody else’s book or not.

– Charles Spurgeon –

The Prayer Life of DL Moody – RA Torrey

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with DL Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.

– RA Torrey –

Forget Yourself in the Service of God

He who forgets himself in the service of God may be sure that God will not forget him.

– an unattributed statement found written on a piece of paper in an old copy of The Ministry of Song, a book by Frances Ridley Havergal

We Are Smug to the Lostness of Men – Leonard Ravenhill

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We’ve been “living in Laodicea”—lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

– Leonard Ravenhill –