Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray, be wise the erring soul to win; go forth into the world’s highway, compel the wanderer to come in.
– Horatius Bonar –
Ministry
Restore the Lost Chord of Christianity – CT Studd
Come, then, let us restore the lost chord of Christianity heroism to the world, and the crown of the world to Christ. Christ Himself asks the question, “Will you be a Malingerer or a Militant?”
To your knees, man! And to your Bible! Decide at once! Don’t hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses.
– CT Studd –
If Jesus Preached the Same Message as Pastors Today – Leonard Ravenhill
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Being Used By God, for God – Bramwell Booth
When Christ formed in us finds free course for all His mind and all His passion; when our eyes are opened to the great purposes of His life in the salvation of the whole world; and when we hear, through Him, the cry of those for whom He was born, and for whom He died, God will pour out on us grace to send us forth—grace sufficient, grace abundant, grace triumphant. Have you come to this? Can you say He is thus dwelling in you, and working in you, to will and to do of His good pleasure?
Do not turn away with the paralyzing fear that it cannot be; that the life of Jesus can never be lived out again in flesh and blood. Remember, He is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” All He was in Bethlehem, to Mary and Joseph; all He was to His work-mates in Nazareth; all He was in the wilderness, fighting with fiends, in the deserts feeding the hungry, or among the multitude—healing the sick, blessing the little children, casting out devils, and preaching the Kingdom; all He was in Bethany, weeping over Lazarus, and crying, “Lazarus, come forth”; in the garden of His agony, in the darkness of His cross, in the hour of His Resurrection, all this—all-all-all—He is today. He belongs to the everlasting Now. All He was to the martyrs who died for His Name, all He has been to our fathers, He is to us, and will be to our children, for with Him is no variableness nor shadow of turning. Yes! This unchanging Christ “is in us, except we be reprobate,” the Life and Image of God, and the Hope of Glory.
– Bramwell Booth –
from Our Master
When God Breaks into a Life – Stephen Olford
When God breaks into a life or a community, nothing else matters save the person of Jesus, the glory of Jesus, the name of Jesus.
– Stephen Olford –
If Prayer Meetings Are Neglected, All Is In Vain – Charles Finney
Every Minister ought to know that if the prayer meetings are neglected, all his labors are in vain.
– Charles Finney –
A Hot Iron – John Flavel
A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.
– John Flavel –
The Greatest Need in the World and Church – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.
– D. Martyn Lloyd Jones –
The Preaching Evangelist – EM Bounds
The evangelist who preaches for eternity is never great on numbers. He is not apt to count hundreds of converts where there is no restitution, no confession, and no glad cry which proclaims, “The lost is found, the dead is made alive again!”
– EM Bounds –