Oswald Chambers
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
Oswald Chambers
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Oswald Chambers
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
Oswald Chambers
Randy Smith
So when we sin, even as Christians, we experience guilt. We experience the shame of disappointing our heavenly Father. We are broken and contrite. The Lord wants us grieved over the times we offend Him. It breaks fellowship with Him. It breaks His heart and it should break our heart as well. We experience guilt. But we don’t stay in the guilt. Again, the guilt turns us to Christ. We confess the sin, repent of the sin and experience the blessing of His full pardon. 1 John 1:8-9, “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Here is how David put it in Psalm 32:5. “I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD’; and You forgave the guilt of my sin.”
Randy Smith
Guillaume Farel
Billy Graham - L'HEURE DE LA DÉCISION, 19 août 1990.
And how many of you are trying to put the puzzles of life together in your life, in your marriage, in your business, in your school, in your work, with your friends? Life is a big puzzle, and you haven’t found a way to put it all together yet. Jesus Christ can do it for you, if you’ll let Him.
Billy Graham -THE HOUR OF DECISION, AUG. 19, 1990
Le croyant a une ressource, lorsqu’il sent la colère monter en lui. S’il se tourne vers son Dieu dans une prière même muette, il lui donnera sa paix. Prions aussi pour qu’il nous révèle les vraies raisons de nos colères. Lui seul peut nous donner la sagesse pour les enrayer par une attitude de pardon, d’humilité et de vérité. Notre entourage saura le reconnaître et le Seigneur sera honoré.
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Le croyant a pu traverser des situations pénibles, mais il n’oublie pas avec quelle fidélité le Berger l’a aidé. Même si l’avenir semble incertain, il s’attend à son Seigneur et ne redoute pas le lendemain.
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Mais la grandeur de Jésus, Fils de Dieu, nous impressionne lorsque, haï, rejeté, trahi, couvert de blessures, il accepte, cloué en croix, de porter à notre place le châtiment que méritent nos péchés. Il a laissé sa vie pour ses ennemis, mais il avait le pouvoir de la reprendre. Il est ressuscité, il est vainqueur de la mort. Laissons-nous saisir et arrêter en contemplant la vie de Jésus, son caractère unique, plus qu’admirable. Recevons ce message de Celui qui nous a aimés à ce point, et disons-lui, comme Thomas : “Mon Seigneur et mon Dieu !” (Jean 20. 29). »
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"Grace is established in the lives of those who have no alternative but to accept it."
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Edward Welch
The way to eliminate shame associated with sin is to admit sin, be confident that God forgives sin, and engage in battle against it.
Edward Welch
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Notre sanctification n’est que la conséquence de notre salut et sa manifestation; la preuve de l’activité du Saint Esprit dans notre vie et de l’efficacité de la Parole de Dieu."
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Que Dieu vous bénisse et vous fasse vous repentir, si vous ne vous êtes pas repenti ; et si c'est le cas, puisse-t-il vous permettre d'y rester tous vos jours, pour l'amour de Jésus-Christ. Amen."
Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Hodge
The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less.
Charles Hodge
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J.I. Packer
Knowing that God’s way to the human heart (the will) is via the human head (the mind), the Puritans practiced meditation, discursive and systematic, on the whole range of biblical truth as they saw it applying to themselves. Puritan meditation on Scripture was modeled on the Puritan sermon; in meditation, the Puritan would seek to search and challenge his heart, stir his affections to hate sin and love righteousness, and encourage himself with God’s promises.
J.I. Packer
Randy Smith
Our Savior wants you to be a disciple of His before you ever become a minister of His. Our Savior wants your heart before you offer Him your hands and feet. Our Savior wants your ministry for Him.
Randy Smith
John Piper
Trying to work for God without worshipping God results in joyless legalism. Work minus worship magnifies your will power not God’s worth. If you try to do things for God without delighting in God you bring dishonor upon God. Serving God without savoring God is lifeless and unreal.
John Piper
John Piper
The New Testament exists because the final, complete, decisive, lasting act of divine salvation happened when Jesus, the Messiah, came into the world. He was the final Adam (Romans 5:12-21), and the final prophet like Moses (Acts 3:22; 7:37), and the final Israel (Matthew 4:1-11), and the final high priest (Hebrews 7:23-24), and the final Passover sacrifice (1 Corinthians 5:7), and the final manna from heaven (John 6:31-32), and the final suffering servant of Isaiah 53 (Mark 10:45), and the final Son of Man of Daniel 7 (Matthew 24:30). His blood was the blood of the promised final new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31 (Luke 22:20). He therefore was the final, decisive Yes and Amen to all God’s promises (2 Corinthians 1:20).
John Piper
George Muller, The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 222.
Work! Walk through every open door; be ready in season and out of season as if everything depended on your labor. This is one of the great secrets in connection with successful service for the Lord – work as if everything depended on your diligence, and trust in the blessing of the Lord to bring success.
George Muller, The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 222.
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Crossway, 1986, p. 155-156.
There are certain things which have to be said over and over again, of necessity, and yet this is the marvel and the wonder of the cross, that however many times a man may preach about it, he has never finished preaching about it. There is always something fresh to say, always something new. There is a great central message that is always there, but nothing is so wonderful as to see that one thing in different ways.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Cross, Crossway, 1986, p. 155-156.
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Roy Hession, We Would See Jesus, Christian Literature Crusade, 1961, p. 15.
To concentrate on service and activity for God may often actively thwart our attaining of the true goal, God Himself. At first sight it seems heroic to fling our lives away in the service of God and of our fellows. We feel it is bound to mean more to Him than our experience of Him. Service seems so unselfish, whereas concentrating on our walk with God seems selfish and self-centered. But it is the very reverse. The things that God is most concerned about are our coldness of heart towards Himself and our proud, unbroken natures. Christian service of itself can, and so often does, leave our self-centered nature untouched… With those things hidden in our hearts, we have only to work alongside others, and find resentment, hardness, criticism, jealousy, and frustration issuing from our hearts. We think we are working for God, but the test of how little of our service for Him is revealed by our resentment or self-pity… We need to leave our lusting for ever-larger spheres of Christian service and concentrate on seeing God for ourselves and finding the deep answer for life in Him.
Roy Hession, We Would See Jesus, Christian Literature Crusade, 1961, p. 15.
Frederick Buechner
Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.
Frederick Buechner
Randy Smith
Why are we called in “The Lord’s Prayer” to ask for what appears to be additional forgiveness? One, because sin destroys. Confession helps our soul heal from the guilt we incurred. Two, because every sin we commit, though it does not forfeit our salvation, breaks fellowship with our heavenly Father. Three, because our forgiveness came at a great cost – the death of God’s very Son. Therefore we ought to take sin seriously and carefully recognize the specific areas we are falling short. Four, because true believers are committed to repentance. Confession of sin is important because without acknowledging the error of sin, we will never take the necessary steps toward what God ultimately desires, which is repentance (turning from the sin altogether).
Randy Smith
Jean Chrysostome
John Bunyan
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think it; otherwise man’s heart would never have been compared to fallow ground and God’s Word to a plough.
John Bunyan
J.C. Ryle
The storms of winter often bring out the defects in a man’s dwelling, and sickness often exposes the gracelessness of a man’s soul. Surely anything that makes us find out the real character of our faith is a good.
J.C. Ryle
James E. Faust
The depth of our belief in the Resurrection and the Atonement of the Savior will, I believe, determine the measure of courage and purpose with which we meet life's challenges.
James E. Faust
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Nous tous, quel que soit notre âge, prenons garde. Le diable est fort, certes, mais nous sommes du côté de Jésus. Jésus est plus fort que le diable, et il l’a vaincu à la croix. Alors gardons courage et fortifions-nous “dans le Seigneur et dans la puissance de sa force” (Éphésiens 6. 10).
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C'est ainsi qu'il place autour de toi des personnes pleines de lui qu'il équipe pour qu'elles parviennent à t'aider et à te soutenir.
Quand les grâces invisibles de Dieu deviennent visibles, elles prennent souvent la forme humaine. La question est : sauras-tu les discerner ? »
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Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, chapitre 3, section 1.
He that has not so much sense of his faults as unfeignedly to lament them, will hardly have so much more as to move him to reform them. The sorrow of repentance may exist without a change of heart and life; because a passion may be more easily wrought, than a true conversion. But the change cannot take place without some good measure of the sorrow.
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, Chapter 3, Section 1.
Charles H. Spurgeon
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can compass and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumb line cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought… “I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.” No subject of contemplation will tend to humble the mind, than thoughts of God.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Billy Graham -THE JOURNEY
Only in heaven will we know exactly what heaven is like.
Billy Graham -THE JOURNEY
Croire l’évangile, c’est aussi en vivre, vivre des paroles de Jésus, car c’est dans le quotidien de nos vies que la confiance en Dieu se concrétise et que nous découvrons combien les paroles de Jésus sont vraies, combien elles sont puissantes pour nous donner l’espérance, la joie, la force dans l’épreuve. Enfin, vivre l’évangile nous amène à grandir : aimer dans la liberté, servir humblement dans cette joie profonde de la présence du Christ, vivre cet engagement dans la paix de sa grâce et la force de sa lumière.
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Jésus n’a jamais promis à quiconque de le combler sur le plan matériel. Le salut et la vie qu’il propose ne rempliront ni votre caddie ni vos placards, mais rempliront votre coeur de joie et de paix. Ce ne sont pas vos circonstances et vos conditions de vie que Jésus désire changer, c’est vous-même qu’il veut transformer. Pour cela il vous offre son amour, son pardon. Il voudrait faire de vous un de ses enfants. Votre valeur ne tient pas à ce que vous possédez mais bien à ce que vous êtes devant lui et pour lui.
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1. Conformité au Christ (1 Sam. 3:2).
2. Triomphe quotidien sur le péché (Psm. 119:9,11).
3. Le triomphe quotidien sur Satan (Mt. 4:1-11).
4. Réconfort et conseil pour les personnes que vous aimez (Pr. 25:11).
5. La communication de l'Évangile aux non-croyants.
6. La communion avec Dieu dans la jouissance de sa personne et de ses voies.
John Piper
Why Scripture memorization as so essential to the Christian life:
1. Conformity to Christ (1 Sam. 3:2).
2. Daily triumph over sin (Psm. 119:9,11).
3. Daily triumph over Satan (Mt. 4:1-11).
4. Comfort and counsel for people you love (Pr. 25:11).
5. Communicating the Gospel to unbelievers.
6. Communion with God in the enjoyment of His person and ways.
John Piper
John Broger
You are commanded to put aside the sinful practices of your old self, to be changed by a renewing of the mind, and to put on Christlike practices of your new self. Memorizing God’s Word is foundational to that process.
John Broger