Sin – Temptation

Guard Against Flattery – JC Ryle

It becomes all professing Christians to be much on their guard against flattery. We mistake greatly if we suppose that persecution and hard usage are the only weapons in Satan’s armory. That crafty foe has other engines for doing us mischief, which he knows well who to work. He knows how to poison souls by the world’s seductive kindness, when he cannot frighten them by the fiery dart and the sword. Let us not be ignorant of his devices. By peace he destroys many.

– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856

Christianity in Practical Working Order – Oswald Chambers

How as God loved me? God has loved me to the end of all my sinfulness, the end of all my self-will, all my selfishness, all my stiffneckedness, all my pride, all my self-interest; now He says – “love one another, as I have loved you.” I am to show to my fellow-men the same love that God showed to me. That is Christianity in practical working order.

– Oswald Chambers –

How to Live Victoriously – Samuel Logan Brengle

Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.

– Samuel Logan Brengle –

Give Me 100 Preachers – John Wesley

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.

– John Wesley –

August 17, 2015

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

July 31, 2015

A man should be like tea; his real strength [character] appearing when he gets in hot water.

– Unknown –

July 1, 2015

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church.

– Billy Sunday –