Alexander MacLaren
“You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.”
Alexander MacLaren
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Alexander MacLaren
“You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.”
Alexander MacLaren
Pete Scazzero
When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human. We transform slowly into empty shells with smiley faces painted on them. Sad to say, that is the fruit of much of our discipleship in our churches. But when I began to allow myself to feel a wider range of emotions, including sadness, depression, fear, and anger, a revolution in my spirituality was unleashed. I soon realized that a failure to appreciate the biblical place of feelings within our larger Christian lives has done extensive damage, keeping free people in Christ in slavery.
Pete Scazzero
"Mes brebis connaissent ma voix" (Jean 10:4). Les agneaux fidèles de Christ connaissent sa voix parce qu'ils sont habitués au son de celle-ci. Parce qu'ils communient souvent avec lui et ont faim des mots qui tombent de ses lèvres, ils reconnaissent le ton et le rythme de ses précieuses paroles. Ils peuvent dire immédiatement si c'est Lui ou un étranger qui déclare la paix. Ils connaissent Sa voix parce qu'elle parle bien à leurs âmes. Sa parole de paix humilie les âmes, purifie de la culpabilité, transforme les vies, fait fondre les cœurs et rend le Christ attachant.
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 139.
“My sheep know my voice” (John 10:4). Christ’s faithful lambs know His voice because they are used to the sound of it. Because they commune with Him often and hunger for the words that fall from His lips, they recognize the tone and rhythm of His precious words. They can tell at once whether He or a stranger is declaring peace. They know His voice because it speaks good to their souls. His word of peace humbles souls, cleanses from guilt, transforms lives, melts their hearts, and endears Christ to them.
Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within, 1998, p. 139.
James Hufstetler
The fact that God ordained our days for us should also give meaning to every day, not just the special or exciting days of our lives. Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.
James Hufstetler
Sinclair Ferguson, The Christian Life, 1997, p. 21.
How can all things be worked together by God for good? The answer is at hand. It is because God’s ultimate purpose is to make us like Christ. His goal is the complete restoration of the image of God in His child! So great a work demands all the resources which God finds throughout the universe, and He ransacks the possibilities of joys and sorrows in order to reproduce in us the character of Jesus.
Sinclair Ferguson, The Christian Life, 1997, p. 21.
David Jeremiah
At times, like the apostle Paul, we will feel hard-pressed, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down. However, when we belong to Christ, we can be assured that we will not be crushed, left in despair, forsaken, or destroyed. This should serve as an incredible comfort to us all.
David Jeremiah
Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, Zondervan, 1994, p. 73.
The authority of Scripture means that all the words in Scripture are God’s words in such a way that to disbeliever or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.
Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, Zondervan, 1994, p. 73.
Richard Baxter
“Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.”
Richard Baxter
La résurrection de Jésus est le début du nouveau projet de Dieu, non pas d'arracher les gens de la terre pour les emmener au ciel, mais de coloniser la terre avec la vie du ciel. C'est, après tout, ce dont il est question dans le Notre Père.
N.T. Wright
Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord’s Prayer is about.
N.T. Wright
John Flavel,The Fountain of Life
Oh cursed sin! It was you who slew my dear Lord! For your sake He underwent all this! If your vileness had not been so great, His sufferings had not been so many. Cursed sin! You were the knife which stabbed Him! You the sword which pierced Him!
John Flavel,The Fountain of Life
Auteur inconnu
The Gospel is not a new law. It is not a code of morals or ethics. It is not a creed to be accepted. It is not a system of religion to be adhered to. It is the good news that God will forgive and accept any person who trusts His provision of the crucified and risen Christ as the answer to their rebellion and sin.
Author Unknown
Andrew Murray
Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and power flow in.
Andrew Murray
Auteur inconnu
Speaking of our tendency to imitate, I find that my own mind seems remarkably malleable, impressed by whatever I read or see modeled around me. A steady diet of cynical political commentary always makes me more negative. Being with friends who gossip can make me more careless about how I speak. None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives? Even the culture around us will try to 'disciple' us if we have not placed ourselves under the transforming influence of Jesus Christ.
Unknown author
Auteur inconnu
Are not our prayers so often ineffective and powerless – and sometimes even prayerless – because we rush unthinkingly and unpreparedly into God’s presence, without realizing the majesty and glory of the God Whom we are approaching, and without reflecting upon the exceeding great riches of His glory in Christ Jesus, which we hope to draw upon?
Author Unknown
Marshall Shelly
When the fruit of the Spirit becomes characteristic of the church’s daily life, it becomes painfully clear whenever one person violates that spirit, and the body itself will work to take care of the irritation.
Marshall Shelly
George Sweeting, Who Said That?
More than a fourth of the Bible is predictive prophecy. Approximately one-third of it has yet to be fulfilled. Both the Old and New Testaments are full of promises about the return of Jesus Christ. Over 1,800 references appear in the Old Testament, and seventeen Old Testament books give prominence to this theme. Of the 260 chapters in the New Testament, there are more than 300 references to the Lord’s return – one out of every thirty verses. Twenty-three of the twenty-seven New Testament books refer to this great event. Three of the four other books are single-chapter letters written to individuals concerning a particular subject, and the fourth is Galatians, which does imply Christ’s coming again. For every prophecy on the first coming of Christ, there are eight on Christ’s second coming.
George Sweeting, Who Said That?
Randall Worley
Is God as proud of me as I am of my children? Like the insufferable dad who can’t stop yelling “that’s my boy” every time his son scores? You can accept He loves you and occasionally likes you. But proud of you? Seriously? If He’s not then He’s not a good and perfect Father. If He’s not proud of me then I’m a better father than He is. Don’t think so.
Randall Worley
Lorsqu'Esdras a prêché au peuple en Néhémie 8, l'attitude avec laquelle les auditeurs sont venus l'écouter était cruciale. Nous devons suivre leur exemple en nous engageant à être attentifs, à écouter attentivement et à appliquer correctement les Écritures. Nous pourrons alors quitter le service avec un cœur joyeux.
Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure, Moody Press, 1996, p. 158.
When Ezra preached to the people in Nehemiah 8, the attitude with which the listeners came to hear him was crucial. We need to follow their example by committing ourselves to attend expectantly, listen carefully, and apply the Scriptures properly. Then we can leave the service with joyful hearts.
Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure, Moody Press, 1996, p. 158.