Folks it’s getting late and it’s getting serious
– David Wilkerson –
Ministry
A Social Gospel – Vance Havner
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
– Vance Havner –
Something Better Than Doing a Great Thing For God – G. Campbell Morgan
There is something infinitely better than doing a great thing for God, and the infinitely better thing is to be where God wants us to be, to do what God wants us to do, and to have no will apart from His.
– G. Campbell Morgan –
Raptured from Responsibility – Leonard Ravenhill
Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Reaching Emotions or Conscience – Leonard Ravenhill
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
A New Kind of Religious Leader Must Arise – AW Tozer
If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of leader. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting. Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear.
– AW Tozer –
Laying Bare the Evils of the Age – Horatius Bonar
Someone, then, must undertake the ungracious task of probing and laying bare the evils of the age; for men must not be allowed to congratulate themselves that all is well. If others will not, he will. If others shrink from the obloquy of such a work, he will not. He loves the age too well; he loves his nation too well; he loves his fellow-men too well. They may upbraid him; they may call him a misanthropist, or a prophet of evil; they may ascribe his warnings to the worst of motives, such as pride, or arrogance, or self-esteem, or malice, or envy; but he will give no heed to these unjust insinuations. He will prefer being thus misunderstood and maligned, to allowing men to precipitate themselves upon a ruin which they see not. Rather than that they should perish, he will allow his own good name to be spoken against. He will risk every thing, even the hatred of brethren, rather than withhold the warning.
– Horatius Bonar –
The Preacher’s Message – AW Tozer
To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.
– AW Tozer –
A Man To Tell You The Truth – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –