We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
– Oswald Chambers –
from So I Send You
Preaching
June 10, 2012
Dr. A.W. Tozer mentioned recently that, ‘We are not only going to be judged for what we have done; we are going to be judged for what we could have done.’ That hurts. Oh what we could have done! Oh the sacrifices we could have made, the prayers we could have offered, the tears for the lost we could have shed, the souls we could have won to Christ! There are resources in God that we believers have never touched; there is wealth, spiritual wealth in God that we have never discovered; there is power in God that we have left untapped–all because we have been faithless and unbelieving.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
June 1, 2012
I grieve that my love is no stronger, and that I am no more like Him. I wonder at His glory, and sink before Him with shame. How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little moved?
– William Bramwell –
May 27, 2012
Preaching has no value unless it is the demonstration of the Spirit and of [His] power!
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
May 24, 2012
Does your one goal, one drive, all of your plans day and night focus on how to redeem your world? What you cry about, what upsets you, your tiredness, is it all focused on the one thing that beats in the heart of God? Do you see every person with the question of how you can be a redemptive force in their lives? Is every situation of your life viewed with a focus on redemption for the world? May I boldly say that if this is not true for you, you have missed the impact of the Gospel of Matthew and especially this initial call to His disciples [Matthew 4.19].
– Stephen Manley –
from his chapter “A Call to Continuity” in Commentary on Matthew 3-4
May 17, 2012
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
– CS Lewis –
April 28, 2012
Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.
– AW Tozer –
from Pursuit of God
April 8, 2012
Not somehow – but triumphantly!
– V. Raymond Edman –
in They Found the Secret, page 11
April 6, 2012
Better to abolish pulpits than fill them with men who have no experimental knowledge of what they teach!
– CH Spurgeon –