John MacArthur
Jesus is not offering a makeover. He’s calling for a takeover, very different from the easy kind of Christianity light that we’re so familiar with.
John MacArthur
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John MacArthur
Jesus is not offering a makeover. He’s calling for a takeover, very different from the easy kind of Christianity light that we’re so familiar with.
John MacArthur
Jonathan Leeman
A local church is a group of Christians who regularly gather in Christ’s name to officially affirm and oversee one another’s membership in Jesus Christ and his kingdom through gospel preaching and gospel ordinances.
Jonathan Leeman
Oswald Chambers
To choose to suffer means that there is something wrong; to choose God’s will even if it means suffering is a very different thing. No healthy saint ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
Oswald Chambers
Thomas a Kempis
Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Thomas a Kempis
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, chapitre 3, section 1.
Content not yourselves with being in a state of grace, but be also careful that your graces are kept in vigorous and lively exercise, and that you preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, Chapter 3, Section 1.
Thomas Brooks
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
Thomas Brooks
"L'ambiguïté morale de l'argent se manifeste peut-être le plus clairement dans la croyance populaire que l'argent lui-même a une valeur et que la valeur des autres choses ou des hommes est en quelque sorte mesurée en termes monétaires, plutôt que l'inverse."
William Stringfellow
"Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around."
William Stringfellow
Philip Graham Ryken, When You Pray, 2000, page 112.
Our trouble is that so often we come to God with our greeds rather than our needs. Already having everything we need, we pray for what we want. This becomes the source of our discontent: we desire things that God has not promised.
Philip Graham Ryken, When You Pray, 2000, page 112.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Sin, a little thing? Isn’t it poison? Who knows its deadliness? Sin, a little thing? Don’t little foxes spoil the grapes? Doesn’t the tiny coral insect build a rock which wrecks a navy? Don’t little strokes fell lofty oaks? Won’t continual droppings wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced His heart! It made Him suffer anguish, bitterness, and woe. If you could but weigh the least sin in the scales of eternity, you would fly from it as from a serpent, and abhor the least appearance of evil. Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Savior and you will see it to be “utterly sinful.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Auteur inconnu, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 3.
If we ask and God does not give, then the fault is with us. Every unanswered prayer is a clarion call to search the heart to see what is wrong there; for the promise is unmistakable in its clearness: “If ye shall ask anything in My name, that will I do” (John 14:14). Truly he who prays puts, not God, but his own spiritual life to the test!
Unknown Author, The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 3.
Melvin Tinker, Wisdom to Live By, Christian Focus Publications, 1998, p. 172.
Nowhere in the New Testament are believers ever depicted as living in servile fear of demons, that is precisely the state from which they have been delivered by the gospel.
Melvin Tinker, Wisdom to Live By, Christian Focus Publications, 1998, p. 172.
2. La prière est illustrée pour nous par le Christ et l'Église primitive (Marc 1:35 ; Actes 1:14 ; 2:42 ; 3:1 ; 4:23-31 ; 6:4 ; 13:1-3). Si Jésus pensait qu'il valait la peine de prier, nous devrions aussi le faire.
3. Dieu veut que la prière soit le moyen d'obtenir ses solutions dans un certain nombre de situations :
a. La préparation aux grandes décisions (Luc 6:12-13).
a. Surmonter les barrières démoniaques dans les vies (Matthieu 17:14-21).
b. Le rassemblement des ouvriers pour la moisson spirituelle (Luc 10:2).
c. L'acquisition de la force nécessaire pour surmonter la tentation (Matthieu 26:41).
d. Le moyen de fortifier les autres spirituellement (Éphésiens 6:18-19).
4. Nous avons la promesse de Dieu que nos prières ne sont pas vaines, même si nous ne recevons pas spécifiquement ce que nous avons demandé (Matthieu 6:6 ; Romains 8:26-27).
5. Il a promis que lorsque nous demandons des choses qui sont en accord avec sa volonté, il nous donnera ce que nous demandons (1 Jean 5:14-15).
Auteur inconnu
1. Prayer is a form of serving God (Luke 2:36-38). We pray because God commands us to pray (Philippians 4:6-7).
2. Prayer is exemplified for us by Christ and the early church (Mark 1:35; Acts 1:14; 2:42; 3:1; 4:23-31; 6:4; 13:1-3). If Jesus thought it was worthwhile to pray, we should also.
3. God intends for prayer to be the means of obtaining His solutions in a number of situations:
a. Preparation for major decisions (Luke 6:12-13).
a. Overcoming demonic barriers in lives (Matthew 17:14-21).
b. The gathering of workers for the spiritual harvest (Luke 10:2).
c. The gaining of strength to overcome temptation (Matthew 26:41).
d. The means of strengthening others spiritually (Ephesians 6:18-19).
4. We have God’s promise that our prayers are not in vain, even if we don’t receive specifically what we asked for (Matthew 6:6; Romans 8:26-27).
5. He has promised that when we ask for things that are in accordance with His will, He will give us what we ask for (1 John 5:14-15).
Unknown Author
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, chapitre 3, section 1.
What skill doth every part of our work require! – and of how much moment is every part! To preach a sermon, I think, is not the hardest part; and yet what skill is necessary to make the truth plain; to convince the hearers, to let irresistible light in to their consciences, and to keep it there, and drive all home; to screw the truth into their minds, and work Christ into their affections; to meet every objection, and clearly to resolve it; to drive sinners to a stand, and make them see that there is no hope, but that they must unavoidably either be converted or condemned – and to do all this, as regards language and manner, as beseems our work, and yet as is most suitable to the capacities of our hearers. This, and a great deal more that should be done in every sermon, must surely require a great deal of holy skill.
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, Chapter 3, Section 1.
Si votre conscience est trop facilement blessée, ne la violez pas. Violer une conscience, même faible, c'est s'entraîner à passer outre à la conviction, et cela conduira à passer outre à la véritable conviction concernant le vrai péché. De plus, violer la conscience est un péché en soi (Romains 14:23), entraînant une culpabilité légitime pour une offense réelle contre Dieu. Alors, répondez à votre conscience, même si elle est faible, et continuez ensuite à l'informer avec la Parole de Dieu pour qu'elle puisse commencer à fonctionner avec des données fiables.
John MacArthur
If your conscience is too easily wounded, don’t violate it. To violate even a weak conscience is to train yourself to override conviction, and that will lead to overriding true conviction about real sin. Moreover, violating the conscience is a sin in itself (Romans 14:23), bringing legitimate guilt for a real offense against God. So, respond to your conscience, even if it’s weak, and then continue to inform your conscience with God’s Word so it can begin to function with reliable data.
John MacArthur
Edward Hays
Since it [Advent] comes at winter time, fire is a fitting sign to help us celebrate Advent… If Christ is to come more fully into our lives this Christmas, if God is to become really incarnate for us, then fire will have to be present in our prayer. Our worship and devotion will have to stoke the kind of fire in our souls that can truly change our hearts. Ours is a great responsibility not to waste this Advent time.
Edward Hays
L'anticipation élève le cœur. Le désir est créé pour être réalisé - peut-être pas d'un seul coup, mais plutôt par étapes. Isaïe a prononcé ses paroles prophétiques sur le renouvellement de la Création naturelle dans un désert de stérilité et de soif spirituelles. Pour lui, et pour beaucoup d'autres voyants de l'Ancien Testament, le vide d'indifférence sèche dans lequel il a parlé n'était pas encore un lieu d'accomplissement. Pourtant, la promesse de Dieu à travers ce porte-parole humain (et le mot "promesse" est toujours porteur d'une sorte de certitude) était verdoyante d'espoir, une sorte de verdure et de gloire. Un adoucissement de la dureté du cœur, une attente vive, annonceraient la venue du Messie. Et une fois encore, en ce temps de l'Avent, la même promesse pour le même Oint se rapproche.
Luci Shaw
Anticipation lifts the heart. Desire is created to be fulfilled - perhaps not all at once, more likely in slow stages. Isaiah uttered his prophetic words about the renewal of the natural Creation into a wilderness of spiritual barrenness and thirst. For him, and for many other Old Testament seers, the vacuum of dry indifference into which he spoke was not yet a place of fulfillment. Yet the promise of God through this human mouthpiece (and the word "promise" always holds a kind of certainty) was verdant with hope, a kind of greenness and glory. A softening of hard-heartedness, a lively expectation, would herald the coming of Messiah. And once again, in this season of Advent, the same promise for the same Anointed One is coming closer.
Luci Shaw
C'est la puissance surnaturelle, celle qui émane de Dieu, et non pas le talent de l'homme qui remporte la victoire. Les dons naturels peuvent attirer une belle congrégation, mais seule la puissance spirituelle produit l'angoisse de l'âme qui conduit au salut.
Charles Spurgeon